Tenor
Mariinsky Theatre Guest Soloist
Migran Agadzhanyan was born in Rostov-on-Don. In 2016 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory as a pianist (class of Vladimir Mischouk) and as an opera and symphony conductor (class of Vladimir Altschuler).
As a child he won prizes at international piano competitions in Paris, Pesaro, Kiev and Yerevan and was awarded the Young Talents of Russia federal prize in addition to becoming a grant-recipient of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation (2007). He studied singing with Vladimir Eknadiosov, a teacher at the Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatoire and sang in the children’s chorus of the Rostov State Musical Theatre.
In 2010 he won the Grand Prix at the competition The Trembling Sounds of the Romance in St Petersburg, was a finalist at the International Competition for Young Opera Singers Flaviano Labò in Piacenza (Italy) and completed his studies at masterclasses at the Opera Studio of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he studied with Renata Scotto and Giuseppe Sabbatini.
In 2012 he made his Mariinsky Theatre debut, performing the part of Moralès in Carmen.
In 2015 he appeared in the semi-final of the Operalia competition (London), following which he was given the opportunity to train as a member of Los Angeles Opera’s Young Artist Program, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera. In the 2016–17 season he was a soloist with the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
In 2017 he sang the part of Arrigo at the premiere of Verdi’s I vespri siciliani at the Mariinsky Theatre. Since then he regularly appears on the St Petersburg stage.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
An Indian Merchant (Sadko)
Arrigo (I vespri siciliani)
Maurice de Saxe (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Faust (Gounod’s Faust)
Don Carlo (Don Carlo)
Don José and Moralès (Carmen)
Rodolfo (La Bohème)
Vaudémont (Iolanta)
Macduff (Macbeth)
Sir Edgar Ravenswood (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra)
Alfredo Germont (La traviata)
Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera)
Fenton (Falstaff)
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto)
Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca)
Don Fernand Guevara (Christopher Columbus in concert)
Repertoire also includes: Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Beppe (Pagliacci), Rodolfo (Luisa Miller), Ismaele (Nabucco), Cassio (Otello), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades), Flavio (Norma), Prince Yuri (The Enchantress), Jason (Cherubini’s Médée), Demo and Volano (Cavalli’s Giasone), Don Fernando Guevara (Franchetti’s Cristoforo Colombo), King Charles VII (The Maid of Orleans), the Prince (Dvořák’s Rusalka), Ernani in the eponymous opera, the tenor role in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
In 2012 Migran Agadzhanyan founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg and has since been its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor.
In April 2021 he made his debut as a conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre (Carmen).
Since February 2022 he has been a Principal Conductor of Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.
