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Soprano
Anush Hovhannisyan
"The voice is full of colour, the technique brilliant and she looks striking.”
- British Theatre Guide
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Biography Highlights
Recent & Upcoming
Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Violetta La traviata with Royal Danish Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Israeli Opera and Scottish Opera, Liza Pique Dame at Grange Festival, Tatyana Eugene Onegin with Opera Holland Park, Parasha Mavra with Scottish Opera, Mimi La bohème with Welsh National Opera, Musetta La bohème at the Royal Opera House and Opera North Leeds, Leonora Verdi’s Oberto at Cadogan Hall, London, Hélène Les vêpres siciliennes with Welsh National Opera, Maria Stuarda at Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Tamara Rubinstein's The Demon and Amaltea Mosè in Egitto with Chelsea Opera Group, Sitâ Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore, Liszt’s Mirrah Sardanapalo.
Awards
Selected by The Times as “The Face to Watch in 2020” and by Der Theaterverlag as one of the outstanding artists of 2020; represented Armenia at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2017, winner of the First Prize, Deutsche Grammophon and Royal Danish Opera special prizes 2016 Stella Maris Competition, 1st Prize Winner of the 2014 Concours Suisse Ernst Haefliger International Swiss Competition.
Portraits
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Nun eilt herbei
Otto Nicolai - Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Nun eilt herbei
Otto Nicolai - Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Più lunga cura... Ah! Nell' ansio rapimento
Franz Liszt - Sardanapalo
Più lunga cura... Ah! Nell' ansio rapimento
Franz Liszt - Sardanapalo
Rimsky-Korsakov - The Beauty
Rimsky-Korsakov - The Beauty
Reviews & Press
Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame - Liza
Most eloquent of all, Anush Hovhannisyan as Liza breathes tragedy from the start with her exquisite tone and gently shaped phrases, as she becomes aware that Herman is more driven by his attraction to the card-trick than to her.
- Nicholas Kenyon , The Telegraph
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Anush Hovhannisyan’s Act 3 arioso was a superb portrayal of wearied grief and disillusionment, the notes precisely placed but always bathed in lyricism.
- Claire Seymour , Opera Today
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In the meeting between Liza and Herman in which she finally realises that all is lost, Hovhannisyan portrayed her anguish magnificently
- David Karlin , Bachtrack
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Rachmaninov - The Bells
…the perfectly controlled, long-spun line of Armenian/British soprano Anush Hovhannisyan – much the best of the three soloists – shone out beautifully.
