Participant at the International Plбcido
Domingo
OPERALIA Competition (2012)
Recipient
of the Armenian Presidential Prize (2009)
Prize-winner
at the International Gasparyan Opera Competition (1st prize,
Yerevan, 2008)
Prize-winner at the Tatevik Sazandarian Republican
Competition of Singers and Performers (2nd prize, Yerevan, 2007)
Born in Yerevan (Armenia). In 2011 he graduated
from the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatoire.
Since 2010 Hovhannes
Ayvazyan has frequently performed with the Opera Belcanto
of York in South Simcoe, Toronto, Canada (Turiddu (Cavalleria
rusticana) and Cavaradossi (Tosca)).
In 2013 the singer performed the role of Manrico
in the opera Il trovatore at the Novaya Opera
in Moscow and appeared in a Verdi gala with Anna
Netrebko at the new Mariinsky Theatre.
Other engagements
for 2013 include appearances at the Mariinsky Theatre
as Cavaradossi in the opera Tosca (19 July) and Manrico
in the opera Il trovatore (9 August, concert
performance).
Guest soloist with the Novaya Opera in Moscow.
Lead soloist with the Yerevan State Alexander Spendiaryan Opera
and Ballet Theatre.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Manrico
(Il trovatore).
Repertoire also includes:
Don Josй (Carmen), Radames
(Aida), the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), Alfredo (La
traviata), Manrico (Il trovatore), Canio (I pagliacci),
Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly),
Luigi (Il tabarro), Cavaradossi (Tosca) and Lensky (Eugene
Onegin).