Solistin
Liana Aleksanyan
Armenian soprano Liana Aleksanyan began her musical education at the age of nine, studying piano at the Mizroyan Music School and then went on to study singing with Sergey Danielyan at the Komitas Conservatory in Yerevan. She was a finalist in several international singing competitions in Europe and won 3rd prize at the Concours international de chant de Toulouse, among others.
Since her European debut as Manon Lescaut at the Norwegian National Opera in 2005, she has performed at most major European opera houses. In the 2010/2011 season, Liana Aleksanyan was a member of the ensemble at the Aalto Theatre in Essen, where she sang roles such as Violetta Valéry (»La traviata«), Antonia (»Les Contes d'Hoffmann«), Countess (»Le nozze di Figaro«), Amalia (»I masnadieri«) and Tatjana (»Eugene Onegin«). She is currently a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ensemble. Here she has appeared on stage in roles such as the title roles in »Adriana Lecouvreur« and »Tosca«, Cio-Cio San (»Madama Butterfly«), Feldmarschallin (»Der Rosenkavalier«), Micaëla (»Carmen«), Elisabetta (»Don Carlo«) and Mimì (»La bohème«).
The Verdi and Puccini specialist made her debut as Cio-Cio-San at Teatro alla Scala in 2016 under the musical direction of Riccardo Chailly. She has also sung this role in Valencia, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Florence, Buenos Aires and Hamburg. She has also appeared as Amelia (»Simone Boccanegra«) and Tosca at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, as Aida at the Macerata Festival and as Luisa Miller at the Hamburg State Opera and sang a concert gala in Shanghai with Daniel Oren.
Liana Aleksanyan has worked with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Simone Young, Giampaolo Bisanti, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Riccardo Frizza and Giampaolo Bisanti as well as with directors such as Andreas Homoki, Hans Neuenfels, Mario Pontiggia, Alvis Hermanis, Hugo de Ana and Josef E. Köpplinger.
She made her debut at the Gärtnerplatztheater in 2014 in the title role in Tchaikovsky’s »Jolanta«.