Baritone Gagik Vardanyan joins Only Stage management’s roster!
Young Armenian baritone Gagik Vardanyan is currently a soloist of the Young Artist Program at the Armenian National Opera. In Yerevan his repertoire includes Belcore L'elisir d'amore, Don Alvaro Il viaggio a reims and as upcoming new roles Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Schaunard and Marcelo La Boheme and Germont La Traviata. With the Estonian National Opera he made his role debut as Germont La Traviata in November and December 2023.
He was a member of the opera studio at Staatsoper Hannover from 2019 until 2022. There he performed Zaretsky Eugene Onegin, Marullo Rigoletto, Officer, Fiorello Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Melot Tristan und Isolde and the baritone solo in the production Stimmen: Liebeslieder.
Gagik Vardanyan obtained his Bachelor’s degree from the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan. He sang his first roles Marullo Rigoletto and Il Commissario Madama Butterfly in productions of the Aram Khachaturyan Concert Hall. As an invited soloist in the Opera for Peace Academy 2023 he sang in concert with Sumi Jo, Etienne Dupuis and Kamal Khan. He participated in the masterclasses of Renée Fleming and Neil Shicoff and appeared as a soloist with the Kaunas Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Constantine Orbelian.
