Source: Askonas Holt
Armenian soprano Lilit Davtyan is a graduate of the Yerevan State Conservatory, where she first studied piano before completing both her Bachelor’s (2020) and Master’s (2022) degrees in voice. From 2018 to 2021, she worked as an accompanist and singer at the Conservatory’s Opera Studio, balancing rehearsal work with regular stage appearances.
In 2021, Lilit joined the Young Opera Artists Program of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where she continues to study under Dmitry Vdovin. She has also participated in masterclasses with Malcolm Martineau, Sergei Leiferkus, Ildar Abdrazakov, Evamaria Wieser, Alessandro Amoretti, Giulio Zappa, Semion Skigin and others.
She has earned recognition at numerous competitions, winning first prize at the XII International Competition-Festival of Young Performers (Russia, 2016) and at the Concorso Internazionale Musicale Città di Pesaro (2019). In 2021 she received second prize and a special prize at the José Carreras Grand Prix, followed in 2022 by a special prize for interpretation of Rachmaninoff songs at the International Rachmaninoff Competition. She was a finalist at Neue Stimmen 2022 and a semi-finalist in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia 2024.
Since the 2023/24 season, Lilit has been a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble, performing Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Marzelline (Fidelio), Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims) and Lauretta (Il trittico). Other recent highlights include Der Lehnstuhl, Die Prinzessin and Die Fledermaus (L’enfant et les sortilèges), and Pale Lady (The Gambler) for the Salzburg Festival, Debussy’s Le Martyre de saint Sébastien at Teatro Petruzzelli, her Semperoper Dresden debut as Pamina, and her US debut in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
In 2025/26 she makes role debuts as Gilda (Rigoletto) and Adele (Die Fledermaus) with Deutsche Oper Berlin, and appears as Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) in a return to Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, further expanding a repertoire that spans Mozart, bel canto and 20th-century works.
