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YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS. The world-famous sopranoHibla Gerzmavawill perform in Armenia for the first time during the Yerevan Perspectives 23rd International Music Festival, the Festival said in a statement.
The concert will be held onNovember 12th at 19:00, at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall.
Conductor isBrian Castles-Onion.
The Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra led by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Eduard Topchyan will participate in the concert.
The program includes arias from famous operas.
Hibla Gerzmava is one of the most sought-after singers on the world opera stage. Brilliant and genuine, emotional, and passionate, she performs the leading female roles in the most famous operas. She brilliantly interprets the characters of her heroines, not only guided by a director but also following her own intuition. She received standing applausesat London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Vienna State Opera, Milan’s La Scala, the Bolshoi,and the Mariinsky Theatres.
Hibla Gerzmava’s creative biography is rich in significant, historic events. In 2001, she created the festival “Hibla Gerzmava Invites…”, within the frame of which historical series of concerts happened in Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, in Vienna in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, at Carnegie Hall in New York, and in St. Moritz, Switzerland and other most prestigious venues of the world.
February 2014, Hibla took part in the Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, performing the Final Song “Olympic Waltz”.
A virtuoso vocalist,Hibla Gerzmava appears on the major opera stages as well as captures the hearts from smaller stages throughout the world. Hibla Gerzmava has sung at the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Teatro Comunale in Florence, the Sofia Opera, the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, and made her Royal Opera House debut in Covent Garden in London,at the Metropolitan Opera, the Bavarian State Opera and the Rome Opera,at the Palais Garnier and many other places.