| Biography | Asmik Grigorian (born 1981) is a Lithuanian operatic soprano.
In 1999, Asmik Grigorian graduated from National M. K. Ciurlionis School of Art in Vilnius. She studied music at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and graduated from it with a master's degree in 2006. Grigorian debuted in Lithuania, later performed at the Latvian National Opera and the Mariinsky Theater. She is a founding member of Vilnius City Opera and the recipient of the highest Lithuanian theatre award, the Golden Stage Cross [lt] twice, in 2005 and 2010.
Since 2011, Grigorian performed in various opera houses on the international stage. She was first noted in operas by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performing leading roles, such as Nastasya in The Enchantress at the Theater an der Wien in September 2014 and as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at the Komische Oper Berlin in 2016.
In May 2016, Grigorian was honored at the International Opera Awards in London as the Best Newcomer ("Young Female Singer").[6] In December 2016 she performed at the Royal Swedish Opera in the premiere of the opera Fedora by Umberto Giordano in the title role] In her debut at the Salzburg Festival in August 2017, she sang the role of Marie in Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck to critical acclaim. Grigorian was praised as a "superb musician, with deep understanding of Bergian vocal style".
Grigorian will make her Edinburgh International Festival debut in August 2019 when Komische Oper Berlin bring their production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin to Edinburgh.
Asmik Grigorian is the daughter of the Armenian tenor Gegham Grigoryan (19512016) and the Lithuanian soprano Irena Milkeviciute [lt] (b. 1947), LMTA professor.
From 2000 to 2007 she was married to the opera soloist Giedrius alys (b. 1969) (in 2002 she gave birth to a son). In July 2015, she married a Russian theater director Vasily Barchatov (b. 1983) and gave birth to a daughter (b. 2016) |