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News | 29.07.10 | 12:56

Popular opera singer Arax Davtyan passes away

Armenian music art has suffered a great loss: on July 28, Armenian opera diva Arax Davtyan passed away in Moscow, Russia, aged 61. As an alumnus of the Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas, in 1986 she got an invitation to work at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.

Audiences in more than 120 prestigious concert halls of the world, such as Carnegie Hall, New York; Gavo, Paris; Gebau, Amsterdam; Center Hall, Tokyo, and others, have heard Davtyan’s lyrical soprano, including her memorable performance in 1988, in Gebau, of Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Requiem’.

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Vanessa Kachadurian, United States
09.08.2010 21:09
One of the greatest an armenian and russian jewel.
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