The Armenian-German bass Vazgen Gazaryan has been a member of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe since 2018/19, where he sung roles such as EREMIT Der Freischütz, FIESCO Simone Boccanegra, SARASTRO Die Zauberflöte, CRESPEL Les Contes d’Hoffmann and ARKEL Pélleas und Mélisande. In 21/22 he will sing LE GRAND PRÊTRE in Enescus Oedipe Komischen Oper Berlin, FILIPPO II Don Carlo Konzerttheater Bern and GRAND INQUISITORE Don Carlo Theater Basel.
In the 2017/18 season he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as OROVESO Norma and in 2020 was nominated by the British OperaNow magazine as one of the most promising singers.
Past guest appearances have included Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Lisbon, Barbican Hall London, Michailowski Theater St. Petersburg, Nationaltheater Mannheim, and Theater Würzburg. In Moscow, he sang HUNDING Die Walküre in concert with the Russian National Orchester and Kent Nagano. Other conductors he has worked with include Carlo Rizzi, Gianandrea Noseda, Oliver von Dohnányi, Donato Renzetti, Danielе Rustioni, and Ricardo Frizza.
From 2007 to 2017, he was a member of Theater Erfurt, where his repertoire included Mefistofele (Boito, title role), MEFISTOFELE Faust (Gounod), LEPORELLO and COMMANDATORE Don Giovanni, VEIT POGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, DOKTOR Wozzeck, and KING RENÉ Iolanta.
Vazgen Gazaryan studied singing and percussion at the Yerevan State Conservatory. He started his operatic career as BASILIO Il barbiere di Siviglia at Yerevan Opera Studio.
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News | Vazgen Gazaryan
"Vazgen Gazaryan präsentierte einen bedrohlichen, und gleichzeitig elegant singenden Grossinquisitor, dessen grosse Szene mit dem König wahrlich durch Mark und Bein ging,"
operagazet
"Best of all was the Armenian-German bass Vazgen Gazaryan in the title role (Mefistofele). I'll be surprised if we don't hear him soon in Covent Garden."
The Times
"Armenian-German bass Vazgen Gazaryan sang Mefistofele, and his stage experience in the role showed. He eschewed any sense of the riotous and gave a carefully controlled and rather serious view of the role. He made a rather elegant, debonair yet black-voice demon and was certainly seductive. His account of the Act One aria was nicely bravura without any element of bravura."
Planet Hugill
"Vazgen Gazaryan als sehr junger Pogner schießt mit vokalem und persönlichem Attraktivitätspotential voll ins Schwarze."
Concerti
"Vazgen Gazaryan mit fulminantem und ausdrucksstarkem Bass ruft an diesem Abend eine beeindruckende Leistung ab. Schon zu Beginn im Dies irae lässt sein „Mors stupebit…“ aufhorchen."
Opernnetz
"Das Duett zwischen dem König und dem Grossinquisitor (Vazgen Gazaryan), der mitnichten als hinkender Greis, sondern als viriler Mafiapate auftritt, ist einer der Höhepunkte des Abends. Als der König den Ring des „Godfather“ der Kirche zum Kontrafagott-Klang des bedrohlichen Leitmotivs küsst, schaudert es jeden im Raum."
onlinemerker
"Vazgen Gazaryan (Grossinquisitor) beherrschte die Bühne mit seinem schwarzen Bass."
onlinemerker
