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 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.