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Representation
About Asmik
“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, Metropolitan Opera, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Royal Opera House, London and Teatro alla Scala.
Asmik works with many of the world's leading conductors including Franz Welser-Möst, Yves Abel, Vladimir Jurowski, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Alan Gilbert. Asmik frequently collaborates with top stage directors including Dmitri Tcherniakov, Romeo Castellucci, and Claus Guth.
She was a founding member of Vilnius City Opera, has twice been awarded the Golden Stage Cross (the highest award for singers in Lithuania), was named Best Female Lead in 2019 at the Austrian Music Theater Awards, and was named Female Opera Singer of the Year in 2022 by the Ópera XXI Association. Most recently, she was named Opus Klassik's 2023 Female Singer of the Year in recognition of her acclaimed debut album Dissonance with pianist Lukas Geniušas.
This season, Asmik releases a recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14, recorded with the l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck in October 2023, and a recording of Strauss’s Four Last Songs in February 2024, both on Alpha.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Asmik Grigorian performs Lisa's Aria, Act 1 from Pique Dame by Tchaikovsky
Performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper Credit: Medici TV
PlayingAsmik Grigorian performs Lisa's Aria, Act 3 from Pique Dame by Tchaikovsky
Performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper Credit: Medici TV
PlayingAsmik Grigorian sings 'Song to the Moon' from Rusalka by Dvořák.
Performed with Yutaka Sado and the Tonkunstler Orchestra for the Midsummer Night's Gala at Grafenegg Festival, June 2023. Credit: 3SAT
PlayingAsmik Grigorian sings 'Sola, perduta, abbandonata' from Manon Lescaut by Puccini
Performed with Yutaka Sado and the Tonkunstler Orchestra for the Midsummer Night's Gala at Grafenegg Festival, June 2023. Credit: 3SAT
PlayingAsmik Grigorian performs Chrysothemis Monologue from Elektra by Strauss
Fabien Gabel and l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at the Philharmonie de Paris. Credit: Asmik Grigorian
PlayingAsmik Grigorian performs the final scene from Salome by Strauss
Fabien Gabel and l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at the Philharmonie de Paris. Credit: Asmik Grigorian
Playing
Audio
- Asmik Grigorian sings Wiegenlied Lullaby from Berg's WozzeckCredit: Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Selected Repertoire
Bartók | Bluebeard's Castle (Judith) |
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Bellini | Norma (title role) |
Berg | Wozzeck (Marie) |
Cilea | Adriana Lecouvreur (in preparation) |
Dargomyzhsky | Rusalka (title role) |
Dvořák | Rusalka (title role) |
Giordano | Fedora (title role) |
Janáček | The Makropoulos Case (Emilia Marty) • Jenufa • Cunning Little Vixen (title role) • Kátya Kabanová ( in preparation) |
Korngold | Die tote Stadt |
Prokofiev | The Gambler |
Puccini | Madama Butterfly • Suor Angelica • La rondine • Manon Lescaut • |
R. Strauss | Elektra (Chrysothemis) • Salome |
Rubenstein | The Demon |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Tatiana) • The Enchantress • Mazeppa • Queen of Spades (Liza) |
Verdi | Otello (Desdemona) • Don Carlo (Elisabeth) • Il Trovatore (Leonora) |
News
Press
'A Diva is Born' Recital
Wiener StaatsoperMay 2024What is presented here is not the usual evening of songs or arias, nor is it a mixture of the two, but a musical journey that Asmik Grigorian has taken the audience on. A journey that leads from her childhood to the present and provides an insight into what moves her artistically deep down. The audience has largely and willingly accepted this unexpected invitation and has been richly rewarded.
- Manfred A. Schmid, Online Merker
- 28 May 2024
Undoubtedly a precious and eccentric evening […] one that demands a repeat.
- Ljubiša Tošić, Der Standard
- 29 May 2024
"I have the luxury of being myself in what I do,” she sings, directing it toward Roscic. It is a luxury and she showed us in the evening’s outing that she’s entitled to have it, from the pleasure she’s given us in her operatic work.
- Richard Sasanow, Broadway World
- 14 June 2024