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Kate Robson

Kate Robson

Assistant Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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. She won Opus Klassik's 2023 Female Singer of the Year in recognition of her acclaimed debut album Dissonance with pianist Lukas Geniušas and, in 2024, received the Grand Jury Prize at the Austrian Music Theatre Awards.

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Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Vienna State Opera
Verdi's Don Carlo (Elisabetta) Philippe Jordan (Conductor) Kirill Serebrennikov (Director)
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples
Dvořák's Rusalka (title role) Dan Ettinger (Conductor) Dmitry Tcherniakov (Director) Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro di San Carlo
Nov 2024
Teatro Real, Madrid
Concert featuring works by Glinka, Puccini and Verdi. Henrik Nánási (Conductor) Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid

Selected Repertoire

BartókBluebeard's Castle (Judith)
BelliniNorma (title role)
BergWozzeck (Marie)
CileaAdriana Lecouvreur (in preparation)
Dargomyzhsky Rusalka (title role)
DvořákRusalka (title role)
GiordanoFedora (title role)
JanáčekThe Makropoulos Case (Emilia Marty)   •   Jenufa   •   Cunning Little Vixen (title role)   •   Kátya Kabanová ( in preparation)
KorngoldDie tote Stadt
ProkofievThe Gambler
PucciniMadama Butterfly   •   Suor Angelica   •   La rondine   •   Manon Lescaut   •   
R. StraussElektra (Chrysothemis)   •   Salome
RubensteinThe Demon
TchaikovskyEugene Onegin (Tatiana)   •   The Enchantress   •   Mazeppa   •   Queen of Spades (Liza)
VerdiOtello (Desdemona)   •   Don Carlo (Elisabeth)   •   Il Trovatore (Leonora)

News

Press

  • Recital with Lukas Geniušas

    Musikverein
    Nov 2024
    • Rachmaninows Dämmerung ist ein Lehrstück, eine Demonstration entspannten souveränen Gesangs, der Linien klar und schlank am Rande der Stille entlangschwingen lässt. [Translated] Rachmaninoff's Twilight is a lesson, a demonstration of relaxed, confident singing, which allows lines to swing clearly and slenderly along the edge of silence.

    • Warm und wohltönend entfaltet sich ihr fein modulierter Sopran in allen Lagen, in nobler Kühle leuchten Spitzentöne. Virtuosität ist nie Selbstzweck. Rachmaninows spätromantischen Stimmungszauber beschwört sie in raffinierten Ausdrucksfarben [translated] Her finely modulated soprano unfolds warmly and melodiously in all registers and her top notes shine in noble coolness. Virtuosity is never an end in itself. She conjures up Rachmanninoff's late romantic mood in sophisticated, expressive colours

      • Kronen Zeitung
      • 07 November 2024
    • Grigorian ist ein wahrhaftige Kunstlerin. Sie geht auf in ihrem Gesang und reibt mit in die verstorende Melancholie Rachmaninows...mit betörender Anmut lässt sie ihren glitzernden, silbrigen Sopran, wenn es passt, mit einger geringen Dosis Vibrato, in den Hohen erklingen. Sublim uberzeiht sie die Stimme mit zart-dunklen Schattierungen, feinsinnig nuanciert gestaltet sie jeden Moment mit der idealen, vokalen Farbung...Atemberaubend, wie sich diese Sangerin etwa in Dissonanzen ganz der Sinnlichkeit [translated] Grigorian is a true artist. She is absorbed in her singing and sweeps you away into the disturbing melancholy of Rachmanninoff...with beguiling grace, she lets her glistening, silvery soprano resonate in the high notes, with a dose of vibrato when appropriate. She sublimely covers her voice with delicate, dark shadings, and with subtle nuances she shapes each moment with the ideal vocal colouring. ...it is breathtaking how this singer surrenders herself completely to sensuality in Dissnances

    • Grigorian setzte ganz auf die Intensität ihres bemerkenswerten Instruments. Von Beginn an erfüllte das imposante Volumen den Großen Saal. Wobei es nicht um Lautstärke an sich ging, sondern stets um den Ausdruck. Gleiches galt für die dezidiert zurückgenommenen Passagen. [translated] Grigorian relied entirely on intensity of her remarkable instrument. From the very beginning, the impressive volume filled the space the Great Hall. It was not about volume per se, but always about the expression. The same applied to the more subdued passages.