KristinaMkhitaryan
Representation
About Kristina
Kristina Mkhitaryan is a graduate of the Galina Vishnevskaya Theatre Studio, Moscow. She has won first prize at the Queen Sonja International Competition in Oslo (2013), third prize at the Neue Stimmen Competition (2013) and the Viotti Competition in Vercelli (2014). Kristina won 2nd Prize at the 2017 Operalia Competition.
Career highlights include La traviata at the Royal Opera House, a role which she now sings to acclaim in major opera houses worldwide, Gilda in Rigoletto with Opera Australia and Hamburgische Staatsoper, as well as the title role in Alcina at Opéra National de Lorraine, and Armida in Rinaldo under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev at the Glyndebourne Festival. She has also sung at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Leila in Les pêcheurs de perles, the Wiener Staatsoper in productions including La Traviata, L'elisir d'amore and Turandot and the Metropolitan Opera in their productions of Gianni Schicchi and La bohème (Musetta).
Kristina's ongoing success has recently seen her make two major role debuts - one in Dutch National Opera's acclaimed production of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, and then Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.
An exciting 2024-25 season will see Kristina return to the role of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, London (new production by Ted Huffman) and Teatro Real Madrid. She will also make her role debut as Mimi in La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera and will also feature in productions of La Traviata at Teatro Perez Galdos, Massenet’s Manon at Weiner Staatsoper and as the title role in a concert performance of Maria Padilla at the Teatro de la Maestranza.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Kristina Mkhitaryan sings the 'Letter Aria' from Eugene Onegin
Credit: Liceu Barcelona
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings Maria's Aria from Donizetti's Maria Stuarda
Credit: Dutch National Opera
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings ‘Tu che di gel sei cinta’ from Puccini's Turandot
Credit: Unitel
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings ‘Signore, ascolta!’ from Puccini’s Turandot
Credit: Unitel
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings Micaela's aria from Carmen
Credit: Kristina Mkhitaryan
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings 'Sempre Libera' from Verdi's La traviata at the Liceu
Credit: Liceu Barcelona
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings Violetta's "È strano... Ah fors'è lui" at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman
Credit: Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings 'O mio babbino caro' in her Metropolitan Opera debut
Credit: Metropolitan Opera
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings 'Lassa, che far degg'io' from Cavalli's Il Giasone
Credit: Grand Théâtre de Genève
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings the 'Finale' from Cavalli's Il Giasone
Credit: Grand Théâtre de Genève
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings Medora in Verdi's Il Corsaro
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia. Directed by Nicola Raab and conducted by Fabio Biondi, 2018. Credit: Palau de les Arts
Playing
Audio
- Kristina Mkhitaryan sings Il Delirio Amoroso ("Ma fermati pensier" and "Per te lasciai la luce")Credit: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
- Kristina Mkhitaryan sings Il Delirio Amoroso ('Un pensiero voli in ciel')Credit: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Selected Repertoire
Bellini | I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta) • I Puritani (Elvira) • La Sonnambula (Amina) • |
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Bizet | Carmen (Michaëla) |
Cavalli | Il giasone (Isifile) • Eliogabalo |
Donizetti | L'elisir d'Amore (Adina) • Don Pasquale (Norina) • Lucia di Lammermoor • Maria Stuarda |
Glinka | Ruslan y Lyudmila |
Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice) |
Gounod | Roméo et Juliette |
Handel | Alcina • Rodelinda • Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra) • Ariodante (Ginevra) • Trionfo del Tempo e della Verita' (Bellezza) |
Massenet | Manon |
Monteverdi | L'incoronazione di Poppea (Poppea) |
Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa) • Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) |
Offenbach | Tales of Hoffmann (Antonia) |
Puccini | La Boheme (Musetta, Mimi) |
Ravel | L'enfants et les sortilèges (Une pastourelle, La chouette, La chauve-souris) |
Rimsky-Korsakov | Snowmaiden • The Tsar's Bride |
Verdi | Il Corsaro (Medora) • I masnadieri *in preparation • La traviata (Violetta) • Luisa Miller *in preparation • Otello (Desdemona) *in preparation • Rigoletto (Gilda) • Simon Boccanegra (Amelia) *in preparation |
News
Press
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Royal Opera HouseSep 2024Mkhitaryan is vocally stunning, with a full, fearless and luminous upper register
- The Arts Desk
- 25 September 2024
Kristina Mkhitaryan’s Tatyana credibly plays the naïve teenager at the start and grows with elegance into the Prince’s wife in the closing scenes...more than anybody else she fills this bare stage with feeling. The hushed intensity she brings to the heart of the letter scene is the high point of the performance.
- Financial Times
- 25 September 2024
Kristina Mkhitaryan is the Tatyana of one’s dreams, displaying a gloriously lyrical soprano, but with a Slavic glint to the tone where required. Her ‘Letter Scene’ was an outpouring of unbridled passion, holding the audience enthralled, and she chartered the character’s development, from a dreamy girl deeply in love with Onegin to a mature woman who knew her own mind, faultlessly
- Music OMH
- 24 September 2024
Kristina Mkhitaryan’s outstanding Tatyana sung with passion, touching sincerity and a burnished soprano. Her Letter Scene was gloriously sung, particularly the hushed lines 'Who are you? My guardian angel or a wily tempter?', in duet with solo French horn.
- Gramophone
- 25 September 2024
As Tatyana, Kristina Mkhitaryan...kept power in reserve and finished strongly, but didn’t impose herself in the letter scene. She sang it beautifully, with heartfelt phrasing, creamy timbre and top notes of great clarity
- Backtrack
- 25 September 2024
Russian soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan is a completely charming Tatyana, growing through the role from tender teenager to gracious princess
- The Guardian
- 28 September 2024
Kristina Mkhitaryan also brings an attractive tonal quality and impressive line to the role of Tatyana...when she raised the emotional intensity later, turning the tables on Onegin while evincing the bitter pain of her own regret, she gave notice of a superior Tatyana in the making.
- Evening Standard
- 27 September 2024
Mkhitaryan’s Tatyana, meanwhile, captures her character development perfectly. Both the introverted, shy Tatyana from the opera and the later incarnation who sacrificed desire for stability are represented stupendously well with some cunning acting and a beautiful voice that melts the heart, specifically during the letter scene.
- Broadway World
- 30 September 2024
Some of the key passages are sung right up next to the proscenium, which allows for some daringly quiet singing from Mkhitaryan’s gleaming, expressive Tatyana and Liparit Avetisyan’s forthright yet nuanced Lensky, the two standout performers in a strong cast.
- The Armenian Mirror Spectator
- 03 October 2024