The soprano Asmik Grigorian comes from Vilnius and studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. She is a founding member of the Vilnius City Opera and has twice been awarded the Golden Stage Cross, the most prestigious Lithuanian theatre prize. In 2022 she received the Premios Ópera XXI and in 2023 she was awarded the Opus Klassik in the category ‘Female Singer of the Year’. Her international career began when she triumphed as Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, and since then she has made an outstanding name for herself both on the concert platform and on the opera stage.
Engagements in the 2024/25 season have included a gala concert with Andrey Zhilikhovsky in Bucharest, her role debuts as Elisabetta (Don Carlos) at the Vienna State Opera and as Norma at the Theater an der Wien, Lauretta, Giorgetta and Suor Angelica in Puccini’s Il trittico at the Paris Opéra, the title role of Salome in concert performances with the London Symphony Orchestra under Antonio Pappano, Rusalka at the Teatro San Carlo, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and Senta (Der fliegende Holländer) at the Bavarian State Opera.
With the pianist Lukas Geniušas she has given recitals at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, the Vienna Musikverein, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Teatro San Carlo, at Carnegie Hall in New York and as part of the Cal Performances at the University of California in Berkeley. She also sang in a concert under Henrik Nánási at the Teatro Real in Madrid and performed Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Musikverein and with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst at Carnegie Hall.
Asmik Grigorian made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2017 as Marie (Wozzeck) and in 2018 made a sensational role debut as Salome under Welser-Möst in Romeo Castellucci’s production, for which she was awarded the Austrian Music Theatre Prize in 2019 in the category ‘Best Female Lead’. Since then, she has appeared regularly at Salzburg: in 2020 and 2021 as Chrysothemis (Elektra), in 2022 as Lauretta, Giorgetta and Suor Angelica, in 2023 as Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) and in 2024 as Polina in Prokofiev’s The Gambler.
Other engagements have included the title role of Jenůfa at the Vienna State Opera; Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) in Munich; Tatyana, Marietta (Die tote Stadt) and Lisa (The Queen of Spades) at La Scala, Milan; Cio-Cio-San at the Arena di Verona, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd) at the Vilnius City Opera and Senta at the Bayreuth Festival.
Asmik Grigorian has worked with many of the world’s most renowned conductors, and appears on numerous CD and DVD recordings.
