Asmik Grigorian

“One of the fiercest dramatic talents in the field” (The New York Times), Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian’s “versatility is astounding” (The Times) with a “wild voice [that is] rich and dark” (Le Monde). Regularly engaged at the world’s leading opera houses, she has recently performed at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, the Salzburger Festspiele, and Teatro alla Scala. Grigorian was a founding member of Vilnius City Opera; has twice been awarded the Golden Stage Cross (the highest award for singers in Lithuania); and was named 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 Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis in the Special Jury Prize category, an award celebrating exceptional contributions to Austria’s opera and theater scene, and was named Opernwelt’s Opera Singer of the Year. 

Her 2024–25 season began with a performance at the Masters of Classic festival in Bucharest, Romania, alongside baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky, followed by her role debut as Elisabetta in Don Carlo at the Wiener Staatsoper. Grigorian returns to one of her signature title roles, Rusalka, three times this season. The first marks her debut at the Teatro San Carlo in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov later this month, then at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the summer, as well as the Bayerische Staatsoper, where she also performs Senta in Der Fliegende Hollander in March 2025. This season also includes her debut as the title-role in Bellini’s Norma in a new production at the Theater an der Wien. Grigorian makes her house debut at Opéra national de Paris, where she reprises all three soprano roles in Puccini’s Il Trittico. Next summer, she reprises the role of Salome in a concert performance with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Antonio Pappano. Concert performances include recitals with Lukas Geniušas at Les Arts Valencia, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Luxembourg Philharmonie, Teatro San Carlo, and Carnegie Hall. She performs in concert at the Teatro Real Madrid under the direction of Henrik Nánási as well as Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs both with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein and with the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.