Vazgen studied singing and percussion at the Yerevan State Conservatory and started his career at Yerevan Opera Studio.
Most recent and future guest appearances of bass Vazgen Gazaryan include Mefistofele (title role) Prague State Opera, IL GRANDE INQUISITORE Don Carlo Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari, RENE Iolanta,ZACCARIA Nabucco and SARASTRO Die Zauberflöte Israeli Opera, PADRE GUARDIANO La Forza del Destino Opéra National de Montpellier and Opéra de Toulon, BASILIO Il Barbiere di Siviglia Opéra de Lille, PHORBAS/LE VEILLEUR Œdipe Bregenzer Festspiele, ZACCARIA Savonlinna Opera Festival, FIESCO Simone Boccanegra Opera North and DALAND Der fliegende Holländer Ópera di Tenerife and Tetre Principa Palma de Mallorca.
Other past projects have included OROVESO Norma MET, VODNIK Rusalka Opéra de Nice and Ópera di Tenerife, DALAND Der fliegende Holländer and Don Pasquale (title role) Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile, ARKEL Pélleas und Mélisande Enescu Festival Bucharest, LE GRAND PRÊTRE Oedipe Komische Oper Berlin, PHILLIPPE II Don Carlos Konzerttheater Bern, LE GRAND INQUISITEUR Don Carlos Theater Basel and LE ROI DODON Le Coq d’or Theater Magdeburg. As a member of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe roles have included MEFISTOFELES Faust, COMMENDATORE Don Giovanni, EREMIT Der Freischütz, FIESCO Simone Boccanegra, SARASTRO Die Zauberflöte, CRESPEL Les Contes d’Hoffmann and ARKEL Pélleas und Mélisande.
He sang in 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. 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, and DOKTOR Wozzeck. He has worked with Kent Nagano, Carlo Rizzi, Gianandrea Noseda, Oliver von Dohnányi, Donato Renzetti, Daniel Rustioni, and Ricardo Frizza․
