Iveta Simonyan

• Prize-winner at the X International Competition of Performers of Russian Romance “Gatchina Romansiada” (2^nd prize, Young Performers nomination, Gatchina, 2021)
• Prize-winner at the Vocal Competition of the XXXV Sobinov Festival of Music (2^nd prize, Saratov, 2022)
• Diploma recipient at the VIII International Competition of Opera Singers NEW OPERA WORLD (Moscow, 2020) 

Iveta Simonyan was born in Novosibirsk.

She is a graduate of a special music school as violinist. In 2019, she graduated from the A.F. Murov Novosibirsk Music College (class of A.K. Bralinova). Nowadays she is a student of the Vocal Department of the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Prof. O.D.Kondina, People’s Artist of Russia). 

Iveta Simonyan has taken part in master classes given by Dmitry and Tatiana Novichenko, Mario Diaz and Teodor Currentzis. 

In 2021, she became the winner of the Special Prize awarded by the jury chairman at the International Music Festival and Competition OPERA BELLA and an audition finalist under the International Opera Program of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

In January 2023, Iveta Simonyan made her debut as Königin der Nacht (the Queen of Night) in Die Zauberflöte at the Saint Petersburg Music Hall.

She has appeared with such conductors as Philipp Chizhevsky, Fabio Mastrangelo, Dmitry Matvienko, Yuri Kochnev, and Ivan Khudyakov-Vedenyapin.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre:
The Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte, W.-A. Mozart);
Gilda (Rigoletto, G. Verdi);
A Heavenly Voice (Don Carlo, G. Verdi);
Ninetta (The Love for Three Oranges, S. Prokofiev);
Brigitta (Iolanta, P. Tchaikovsky);
The Rose (The Little Prince, L. Klinichev);
The Granddaughter (Vnuchka) (The Turnip, R. Sagdiev).

Repertoire also includes:
Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor by W.-A. Mozart)