The young Armenian soprano Lilit Davtyan studied in Yerevan and from 2021 to 2023 was a member of the Young Artists Opera Programme of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. In 2023 she participated in the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project, appearing in Ravel’s Das Kind und die Zauberdinge (L’Enfant et les sortilèges). She returned in 2024 for Prokofiev’s The Gambler. Since the 2023/24 season, she has been a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she has sung roles such as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Marzelline (Fidelio), Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims) and Lauretta (Il trittico).
Highlights of the 2025/26 season included her role debuts as Gilda (Rigoletto) and Adele (Die Fledermaus) in Berlin and her return to the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari as Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto). In the forthcoming season she will make her debut at the Bavarian State Opera as Frasquita (Carmen).
Earlier important appearances included Debussy’s Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien at the Teatro Petruzzelli, her debut as Pamina at the Semperoper Dresden and her US debut in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck.
Her repertory also includes roles such as Sophie (Werther), Pepík and Grasshopper (The Cunning Little Vixen), Shepherd Boy (Tannhäuser), Sandman and Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel), Bice in Korngold’s Violanta, Norina (Don Pasquale), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) and the title role of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden.
Lilit Davtyan initially studied piano, before completing bachelor’s and master’s degrees in singing at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan. She has participated in masterclasses with Ildar Abdrazakov, Alessandro Amoretti, Sergei Leiferkus, Malcolm Martineau, Semion Skigin, Evamaria Wieser and Giulio Zappa. She has won prizes at numerous competitions, including first prize at the XII International Competition-Festival of Young Performers and the Concorso Internazionale Musicale Città di Pesaro, and second prize and a special prize at the José Carreras Grand Prix of the Elena Obraztsova Foundation in Moscow. She was also a finalist in the ‘Neue Stimmen’ competition in 2022 and a semi-finalist in Plácido Domingo’s singing competition Operalia in 2024.
