ManéGaloyan

Armenian soprano Mané Galoyan, winner of the 2021 Operalia Second Prize, Zarzuela Prize, and Rolex Audience Prize, was described by Online Merker as "a magnificently dazzling, lyrical soprano, whose infinite, sul fiato floating piani in the shattering solo 'Senza mamma' is nothing short of magical." She was also hailed for her recent "spellbinding performance" of Traviata by the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Galoyan's 2024-2025 season highlights include a house debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she will sing Gilda in Rigoletto. She will also make her role and house debut as Micaëla in Carmen at the Royal Opera House in London, and have two more role and house debuts: as Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito at the Monte Carlo Opera and as Liu in Turandot at the Theater Basel. Additionally, Mane will return to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Adina in L'elisir d'amore.

Last season, she performed Suor Angelica and Lauretta in a new production of Il Trittico at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Wiener Staatsoper, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with the Canadian Opera Company, Violetta in La traviata with Santa Fe Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Suor Angelica with the Bayerische Staatsoper, and the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen with Detroit Opera. Some concert highlights included Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with The Hallè at the BBC Proms, a performance with Plácido Domingo and the Sinfonietta de Lisboa, and a gala concert with the Detroit Opera Orchestra.

Previous highlights include Luisa Miller with Oper Köln, Berthe in Le prophète with Aix-en-Provence Festival, recently released to great acclaim as a recording with the London Symphony Orchestra, Avis in The Wreckers with Houston Grand Opera, Donna Anna with the Atlanta Opera, and Violetta with Deutsche Oper Berlin and Seattle Opera. She also performed The Bells with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Bard Festival, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Seattle Symphony, a concert of arias with the Prague Symphony Orchestra and Plácido Domingo in Bad Hofgastein, Austria, and Taneyev’s cantata with the American Symphony Orchestra, released as a recording.

As an Ensemble member with the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2021-2022, Ms. Galoyan performed Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Violetta in La Traviata, and Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims, among other roles. As a guest, she made her debut with Dutch National Opera as Violetta, and performed the title role in Luisa Miller with the Glyndebourne Festival. She also stepped in for an ailing colleague to sing Adina for her debut with Paris Opéra in October, 2021, and sang Walter in La Wally with the Munich Radio Orchestra. In the 2020-2021 season, she debuted with Zürich Opernhaus as Adina in L’elisir d’amore and performed Garsenda in Francesca da Rimini with Deutsche Oper Berlin.

In previous seasons, Ms. Galoyan made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Prilepa/Chlöe in Pique Dame, conducted by Vasily Petrenko. A former Studio member of Houston Grand Opera, Mane has performed Violetta, Gilda in Rigoletto, and Adina. She has performed Violetta with the Glyndebourne Festival on tour, Gilda with Kentucky Opera, debuted with Hawaii Opera Theatre as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro. Symphonic engagements included Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with James Gaffigan and The Dallas Symphony, as well as with Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the Houston Symphony. Ms. Galoyan also performed select Russian song repertoire with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Aspen Music Festival, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G with the San Antonio Symphony and gave recitals at Balliol College at Oxford University, the Opera America Emerging Artists Recital series in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Other concert performances have included Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Schubert’s Mass in G and Mass in C, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, all with the Armenian National Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Fauré Requiem with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mané Galoyan is a winner of numerous international competitions, including First Prize in the 27th Eleanor McCollum Competition and Concert of Arias with Houston Grand Opera, Third Prize in the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, Fourth Prize in the 6th International Vocal Competition China in Ningbo, Third Prize in the 2017 Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, a 2014 prize in the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition, and first prize in the Bibigul Tulegenova International Singing Competition in Kazakhstan. Ms. Galoyan holds two degrees from the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory in Armenia, where she was named the 2013 winner of the President of the Republic of Armenia Youth Prize. She is married to conductor Roberto Kalb.