Kristina Mkhitaryan, soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan is a graduate of the Galina Vishnevskaya Theatre Studio Moscow. She went on to study with Ruzanna Lisician at Gnesinss Music College and upon completion continued her vocal education at the Gnesin Academy of Music. Kristina won 2 nd Prize at the 2017 Operalia Competition.
A wonderful competitor, Kristina has won multiple awards throughout her career. She took second prize at the 2012 Obukhova Singing Competition, Lipetsk and became a finalist at the Hans Gabor Belvedere International competition, Vienna, as well as taking third place at the Francisco Vinas 49th International Singing Competition, Barcelona in the same year. Other prizes also include a diploma at the 24th Glinka International Vocal Competition (2011) and first prize at the Bella Voce, Inter-national Competition (2004). She has most recently won first prize at the Queen Sonja International Competition in Oslo (2013), 3rd prize at the Neue Stimmen Competition (2013) and the Viotti Competition in Vercelli (October 2014).
Kristina has worked with conductors including Bertrand de Billy, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Domingo Hindoyan, Placido Domingo, Yuri Bashmet, Fabio Biondi, Mikhail Granovsky, Maxim Emelyanychev, Yves Abel, Leonardo García Alarcón, Jakub Hrůša, Guerassim Voronkov and Jan Latham-Koenig to name a few.
Career highlights have included Micaëla in Barrie Kosky’s Carmen at the Royal Opera House, La traviata at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Palm Beach Opera, ROH Muscat, and with Opera di Roma in Caracalla. She has also sung Rigoletto with Opera Australia and in her Hamburgische Staatsoper debut, Medora in Il Corsaro at the Palau de les Arts Valencia, debuted at the Netherlands Opera for Eliogabalo, sang I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the Bergen Opera, Les Indes Galantes and Il Giasone by Cavalli at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and La Traviata and Rinaldo (Armida) at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival. Most recently the title role in Maria Stuarda at the Nederlandse Opera and Elisir d’amore at the Wiener Staatsoper. She has also recently sung her first Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at the Liceu.
Other concert repertoire has included Gorecki’s Symphony No.3, Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Il Delirio Amoroso with Radio France under Maestro Alarcón. An exciting 2023-24 season sees Kristina return to the Liceu Barcelona for her role debut in Eugene Onegin (Tatiana), and to the Wiener Staatsoper for their productions of L’elisir d’Amore (Adina) Carmen (Micaela) and Turandot (Liù) in a new production by Claus Guth. She will also return to the Metropolitan Opera, performing Musetta in a revival of Franco Zefferelli’s celebrated La Bohème. On the concert platform, Kristina will perform a recital at Wigmore Hall as well as a concert version of two Rachmaninoff short operas, Francesca da Rimini and Aleko, with the Munchner Rundfunkorchester.
Future engagements see Kristina returning to major opera houses including Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Teatro Real Madrid and an exciting role debut at the Metropolitan Opera.