NavasardHakobyan

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 programmes. He was in the studio 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.

This season, Navasard makes house debuts at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées as Ezio in Verdi’s Attila with the Orchestre National de France under the direction of Riccardo Muti and at Welsh National Opera as Masetto in La bohème under Corinna Niemeyer. Last season, he was a member of the ensemble at Deutsche Oper Berlin, where his roles included De Siriex in Christoph Loy’s production of Fedora, Morales in Carmen and the Marquis d’Obigny in La traviata, among others. He also made his house debut at Seattle Opera as El Dancaïro in Carmen, under the baton of Ludovic Morlot.

Previous highlights include his European operatic debut as Marcello in La bohème at Dresden Semperoper, a role he also reprised at Houston Grand Opera, as well as his role debut as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at Houston Grand Opera, Gregorio in Romeo and Juliet at The Dallas Opera and Silvio in Pagliacci and Germont in La traviata at the Yerevan Opera Theater.

On the concert stage, he performed the role of the Second Nazarene in a concert version of Salome with Houston Symphony, Escamillo in a concert version of Carmen with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra and appeared in a concert version of Il viaggio a Reims with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mkrtich Babajanian. As a recitalist, he made his European debut in 2024 in Prague with pianist Ahmad Hedar, followed by a recital at Hahn Hall in Santa Barbara.