Liparit Avetisyan

Armenian tenor Liparit Avetisyan made his Royal Opera debut in the 2016/17 Season as Alfredo Germont (La traviata) and has returned to sing Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Alfredo Germont (La traviata) and in the 2018 spring gala.

Avetisyan was born in Yerevan and studied at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and the Komitas State Conservatory, Yerevan with Rafael Hakobyants. He has sung Alfredo Germont for Semperoper Dresden, Berlin State Opera, Cologne Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Zürich Opera, Bavarian State Opera, in Yerevan, for Moscow’s Stanislavsky Opera, for Opera Australia and at the Bolshoi. Other appearances include Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) for Opera Australia, Seattle Opera, Cologne Opera and Semperoper Dresden, Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) for Semperoper Dresden, Des Grieux (Manon) in Yerevan and for Stanislavsky Opera, Rodolfo (La bohème) for Deutsche Oper Berlin, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) for Festival Castell de Peralada, Lensky (Eugene Onegin) for Opéra national du Rhin, Fenton (Falstaff) in Cologne and Prince (Love for Three Oranges) for the Staninslavsky Opera. 

Avetisyan has sung at the XXI International Music Festival Stars of the White Nights in Saint Petersburg, Moscow Easter Festival, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland, MustonenFest in Estonia and Midem Festival in France. He regularly appears in recital at St John’s Smith Square, and performed in benefit concerts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide with Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall and the Music Center at Strathmore.