ABOUT
Armenian-American soprano, Anush Avetisyan has “proved to be a gifted singer and interpreter beyond her years” (German World Magazine). Ms. Avetisyan is a proud 2018/19 Turn the spotlight Fellow with the new organization Turn the Spotlight, whose mission it is to empower leaders on stage and behind the scenes to create a more equitable future for the arts.
Ms. Avetisyan is a recent graduate from Yale School of Music where she performed as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Gretle in Hänsel and Gretel as well as performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony twice with the Waterbury Symphony and Hartford Symphony. In the 2017/18 season, Ms. Avetisyan completed her second year as a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where she received a Richard Gaddes Career Award. These awards are given to Opera Theatre’s most exceptional early-career artists to support continued professional and artistic growth. In Opera Theatre’s 2017 season, Ms. Avetisyan sang Kate Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, in addition to covering the title role.
A graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts, there Ms. Avetisyan sang the roles of Violetta (La traviata), Musetta and Mimí (La bohème), Despina (Così fan tutte), Elvira (L’Italiana in Algieri), and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni). Ms. Avetisyan attended Oberlin in Italy for two years singing in Teatro Signorelli the roles of Magda (La Rondine) and Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro). As a Wolf Trap Studio Young Artist, she performed as Delia in Il viaggo a Reims. Ms. Avetisyan received her B.A. at UCLA in 2012 with a double major in Vocal Performance and Music Education. She sang the roles of Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, Poppea in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea.
Ms. Avetisyan is a First Prize winner of the Inaugural Deborah Voigt International Vocal Competition, was a finalist in the Violetta DuPont Vocal Competition, Second Place in the Mario Lanza Competition, First Place in the New Century Singers Whittier Vocal Scholarship Competition, the First and Founders’ Prize for Vocalists in the Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition, and Fourth Place in the Loren L. Zachary Society Competition and First Place in the Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition. She has also received encouragement awards from the Metropolitan Opera and The Giulio Gari Foundation and was a semi-finalist in the Dallas Opera Competition.
She returned to Vero Beach making her professional debut as Micaëla in Carmen and performing in a winners’ recital for the Deborah Voigt competition with Marcello Giordani in March. She will debut the role of Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi with the Pittsburg Summer Festival in July and looks forward to repeating the role with the Livermoore Valley Opera in January 2020.
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“As Kate Pinkerton, soprano Anush Avetisyan was outstanding in the moment when she realized just what kind of man she’d married. ”
“Anush Avetisyan “proved to be a gifted singer and interpreter beyond her years.”
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