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Navasard Hakobyan
Navasard Hakobyan

About Navasard

Navasard Hakobyan was the winner of both the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition and The Dallas Opera’s National Vocal Competition in 2024. The year prior, he was awarded Third Prize at the 2023 Operalia World Opera Competition, where he also received the prestigious Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize for Zarzuela.

In addition to his success on the competition stage, Navasard has been part of several leading young artist programs. He was a studio artist at Houston Grand Opera from 2022 to 2025, a member of the Young Singers Project at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2024 and joined the Académie of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2025.

In the 2025 - 2026 season, he becomes a member of the ensemble at Deutsche Oper Berlin, where his roles include De Siriex in Christoph Loy’s production of Fedora, Morales in Carmen, and the Marquis d’Obigny in La traviata, among others. He also makes his house debut at Seattle Opera as El Dancaïro in Carmen, under the baton of Ludovic Morlot.

Last season, Navasard made his European operatic debut as Marcello in La bohème at Dresden Semperoper, a role he also reprised at Houston Grand Opera. On the concert stage, he appeared as the baritone soloist in Brahms’ Requiem with the Santa Barbara Symphony and performed Escamillo in a concert version of Carmen with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra.

Navasard is based in Berlin

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Grace Hewett

Grace Hewett

Assistant Artist Manager

Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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Season Highlights

Sep 2025 - Oct 2025
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Wagner: Lohengrin (Brabantischer / Edler) Constantin Trinks (conductor)
Oct 2025
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Bizet: Carmen (Morales) Anna Handler / Friedrich Praetorius (conductor)
Nov 2025 - Dec 2025
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Umberto Giordano: Fedora John Fiore (conductor)
Dec 2025 - Jan 2026
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Fiorillo) Carlo Goldstein (conductor)
Jan 2026 - Feb 2026
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Verdi: La Traviata (Marquis D'Obigny) Ivan Repušić / Francesco Lanzillotta (conductor)
May 2026
Seattle Opera
Bizet: Carmen (El Dancairo) Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

Selected Repertoire

Bizet

Carmen (Escamillo)   •   Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Zurga)

Donizetti

L'elisir d'amore (Belcore)

Giordano

Fedora (Sierex)

Gounod

Roméo et Juliette (Gregory)

Leoncavallo

Pagliacci (Silvio)

Mozart

Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro, Count Almaviva)

Puccini

Madama Butterfly (Sharpless), La bohème (Marcello)

Rossini

Il viaggio a Reims (Antonio)

Strauss

Salome (Nazarener)

Verdi

La traviata (Il barone Douphol)

Wagner

Tannhäuser (Wolfram von Esechenbach)