Asmik Grigorian has made a name for herself on both the concert and operatic platforms since her international career began and is regularly engaged at the world’s leading opera houses. Awards have included the Golden Stage Cross (the highest award for singers in Lithuania), Best Female Lead in 2019 at the Austrian Music Theater Awards, Female Opera Singer of the Year in 2022 by the Ópera XXI Association, and Female Singer of the Year at the Opus Klassik Awards in 2023. In 2024, she received the prestigious Special Jury Prize at the Austrian Music Theater Awards, an award celebrating exceptional contributions to Austria's opera and theatre scene.

Since a triumphant Madama Butterfly at Swedish Royal Opera, Asmik has conquered role after role including: Salome at the Salzburg Festival (described as “a Salome to end all Salomes” by Financial Times (now available on DVD), Rusalka at the Royal Ballet and Opera and Teatro Real, Jenufa at the Royal Ballet and Opera and Wiener Staatsoper, and Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Teatro alla Scala. She regularly returns to Salzburger Festspiele, performing roles such as Chrysothemis (Elektra), the three leading soprano roles in Puccini’s Il Trittico, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Marie in Wozzeck (all recorded on DVD) and Polina in The Gambler. As a regularly engaged performer at the Wiener Staatsoper, she has performed the title role in Manon Lescaut, the title role in Turandot, Nedda (Pagliacci), Jenufa, and Tatiana (Eugene Onegin).

Asmik has released several recordings with Alpha Classics, including her debut album, in collaboration with the pianist Lukas Geniušas, Dissonance, featuring Rachmaninov romances, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14, recorded with the l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck, and Laws of Solitude, a recording of Strauss’ Four Last Songs, recorded both with orchestra and piano.

 

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