Marianna Hovanisyan

Armenian soprano Marianna Hovanisyan joined the Jette Parker Artists Programme in the 2024/25 Season. She received the Audience Prize, Eva Kleinitz and The Beckwith Foundations special prizes at the Portofino International Competition (CLIP) in 2022 and won first prize in the Gohar Gasparyan National Singing Competition and the 2020 Presidential Prize for young opera singers in her native Armenia. She is a graduate of the Yerevan State Conservatory and Mascarade Opera Studio in Florence.   She has performed in opera scenes as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Adina (L’elisir d’amore) and Norina (Don Pasquale) at La Fenice, Venice and has sung Nella and Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi) and Clorinda (La Cenerentola) at the Yerevan Opera Studio. She covered the role of Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the New Generation Festival in Florence in 2018. Roles for the Royal Opera this Season include Iris (Semele), Frasquita (Carmen), and, for Birmingham Royal Ballet, soprano soloist in Luna.