Gagik Vardanyan

(baritone)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Gagik Vardanyan graduated from Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas in 2019 and furthered his education within the Young Artists Opera Program in Staatsoper Hannover (2019–2022). Since 2022, he is a soloist of the Young Artists Opera Program at the Armenian National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
He has received several awards, including 1st prize at the Veratsnund International Competition (2013), Grand Prix at the Festival Art Music (2014), 1st prize at the 7th Republican Competition after Tatevik Sazandaryan (2017), 3rd prize at the 13th Aram Khachaturian International Competition (2017), “The best young singer” Award at the “Mersedes Vinas” International Competition (2019), 1st prize at the 5th Manhattan International Music Competition (2020), 1st prize at the ISCART International Music Competition (2020), 3rd prize and the Estonian National Opera special award at the 
8th Klaudia Taev Competition (2023) among others.

REPERTOIRE
Onegin (Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”)
Robert (Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta”)
Yeletsky (Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades”)
Benoit (Puccini’s “La bohème”)
Melot (Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”)
Silvio (Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci”)
Giorgio Germont (Verdi’s “La traviata”)
Marullo (Verdi’s “Rigoletto”)
Lescaut (Massenet’s “Manon”)
Don Alvaro (Rossini’s “Il viaggio a Reims”)
Belcore (Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore”)
Escamillo (Bizet’s “Carmen”)