Asmik Grigorian
Biography: Asmik Grigorian is a Lithuanian operatic soprano and stage actress. She graduated from National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius. She studied music at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and graduated from it with a master's degree in 2006. Grigorian debuted in Lithuania, later performed at the Latvian National Opera and the Mariinsky Theater. She is a founding member of Vilnius City Opera
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 12, 1981
Deathday: N/A
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Jenůfa - ROH
2021-10-09
Jenůfa - ROH
Overview: When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is sometimes only skin-deep. Asmik Grigorian as Jenůfa in her Covent Garden debut and Karita Mattila as the Kostelnička lead a star cast with Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási conducting a stunning score infused with traditional folk melodies of Janáček’s native Moravia. Claus Guth’s acclaimed staging - both elegant and open while being utterly claustrophobic and oppressive - captures the great humanity at the heart of the opera.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-09
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Royal Opera House 2023/24: Madama Butterfly
2024-03-26
Royal Opera House 2023/24: Madama Butterfly
Overview: Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-26
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Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023
2023-07-29
Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023
Overview: After a victorious battle, three witches predict that Macbeth, who commands King Duncan's army, will ascend the throne of Scotland. Urged on by his wife to force fate, he takes advantage of the monarch's stay in their castle to murder him... The daring Krzysztof Warlikowski revisits Verdi's most powerful Shakespearean opera, with baritone Vladislav Sulimsky and soprano Asmik Grigorian in the roles of the murderous spouses.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-07-29
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Fuoco sacro – Suche nach dem heiligen Feuer des Gesangs
2022-04-21
Fuoco sacro – Suche nach dem heiligen Feuer des Gesangs
Overview: What drives men and women to risk their own lives to save those of others? Fuoco Sacro tells the story of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian fire department, and does it through the voices of the people who, over half a century of history, have tackled with competence and a spirit of self-sacrifice the greatest calamities that Italy has tragically had to experience at firsthand.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-04-21
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The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
2024-05-11
The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
Overview: Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman stars as the callous American naval officer Pinkerton, whose betrayal destroys her. Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong reprises the role of the steadfast maid Suzuki, and baritone Lucas Meachem is the American consul Sharpless. Acclaimed maestro Xian Zhang takes the podium to conduct Anthony Minghella’s vivid production.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-11
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Narcissus
2012-05-10
Narcissus
Overview: Narcissus (from Greek Narkissos) shares the root nark-, with narcosis and narcotic. All these words have the same origin in the verb narkaō – to intoxicate through a strong smell. I was particularly interested to find out why a handsome and overall fortunate man says he never feels happy. He draws people in, but ends up hurting them, yet he is impossible to resist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-10
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Richard Strauss: Salome - Staatsoper Hamburg
2023-10-29
Richard Strauss: Salome - Staatsoper Hamburg
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-10-29
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Giacomo Puccini: „Il trittico“ Salzburger Festspiele 2022 (Gesamtfassung)
2022-08-13
Giacomo Puccini: „Il trittico“ Salzburger Festspiele 2022 (Gesamtfassung)
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-08-13
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Royal Opera House 2023/24: Rusalka
2024-01-24
Royal Opera House 2023/24: Rusalka
Overview: Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world – a world that does not love her back.
Genres: Music Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-24
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Der fliegende Holländer
2022-08-12
Der fliegende Holländer
Overview: This is a performance of Wagner's three-act opera Der fliegende Holländer ("The flying Dutchman"), performed by Bayreuther Festpiele, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. The staging was notable for two other milestones, as Oksana Lyniv became the first woman to conduct at Richard Wagner’s legendary Festspielhaus since its opening in 1876, and the sensational Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian made her house debut with a standout performance as the opera’s heroine, Senta. The exceptional cast also included John Lundgren (The Dutchman), Georg Zeppenfeld (Daland), Eric Cutler (Erik) and Marina Prudenskaya (Mary).
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-12
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Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress
2024-04-26
Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress
Overview: Originally set in the 15th c century, Tchaikovsky's "The Enchantress" is updated to the present day in this innovative production. The charismatic, emancipated Nastasya, who rejects the advances of the devious Mamïrov, duly faces the implacable forces of traditional values in a society riven by divisions between liberal freedoms and religious orthodoxies. The tragic outcome engulfs everyone...
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-26
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Komische Oper Berlin)
2016-02-15
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Komische Oper Berlin)
Overview: Live performance from the Komische Oper Berlin, February 15 2016.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-02-15
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Salome
2020-09-20
Salome
Overview: Based on Oscar Wilde's lurid play, it is an intense exploration of the Salome story. Its sumptuous vocal and orchestral writing seethes and pulsates as Strauss conjures up the brutality of Herod's corrupt court. Richard Strausss opera at the Salzburg Festival, staged by Romeo Castellucci at the Felsenreitschule, was nothing short of a sensation. Debuting in the title role, Asmik Grigorian propelled herself to international stardom with her mesmerizing singing and acting abilities. The exceptional soprano recently won the International Opera Award as best singer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-09-20
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Wozzeck
2018-08-30
Wozzeck
Overview: A study of a man's physical and mental limitations. In the 24 quite harsh and grueling fragments of the unfinished drama, a body and a mind are tested as far as they can be pushed before their owner goes over the edge. Is there just one thing that proves to be too much for Franz Woyzeck, or is it an accumulation of miseries and torments of a wretched existence? Woyzeck is perhaps not so much a bleak account of how miserable life can be as how much strength is required to deal with the daily vicissitudes of life and how delicate and fragile a balance the human psyche rests on.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-08-30
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Madama Butterfly
2020-01-17
Madama Butterfly
Overview: A guileless Japanese girl gives up everything to marry a lieutenant in the US Navy. But when he suddenly leaves the country, she is determined to wait patiently until he sails back into harbour. The last of Puccini’s ‘big three’ operas, Madama Butterfly is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian sings the title role in this colourful production from the Royal Swedish Opera set amongst the glitz and kitsch of postwar Japan.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Elektra
2020-08-01
Elektra
Overview: Celebrate the triumphant return of the famed Salzburg Festival with this extraordinary production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra, live from the spectacular Felsenreitschule! Lithuanian soprano Aušrinė Stundytė makes her grand debut on the mythical festival stage in the title role, accompanied by the marvelous Ariane Baumgartner and Asmik Grigorian in the roles of Klytaemnestra and Chrysothemis, respectively.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-08-01
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Prokofiev: The Gambler
2020-02-12
Prokofiev: The Gambler
Overview: A general and his stepdaughter are both heavily in debt. When the family's tutor, in love with the girl, gets lucky at the gambling table, he tries to rescue her from her desperate situation, but she outright rejects him. Prokofiev's first full-length opera The Gambler, based on Dostoyevsky's partly autobiographical novella ironically written to settle gambling debts, is rarely performed today. This 2020 production brings together director Vasily Barkhatov and conductor Modestas Pitrenas and stars the winner of the 2019 International Opera Award, Asmik Grigorian, in the role of Polina.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-02-12
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Rusalka
2020-11-25
Rusalka
Overview: The libretto of the most well known opera by Dvořak, which premiered in Prague in 1901, is inspired by the Czech version of the Central European folktale, one we also know as Undine (1811) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué or The Little Mermaid (1837) by Hans Christian Andersen.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-25
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Don Carlo
2024-10-09
Don Carlo
Overview: Production of the Vienna State Opera, October 2024. Inspired by a visit to the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan, director Kirill Serebrennikov brings the plot of Don Carlo into a contemporary context. He was also inspired by this institute for his stage design - after all, original objects from all eras and cultures are kept there and prepared and stored accordingly to protect them from decay.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-09
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Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2009-05-07
Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Overview: In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
Genres: Music Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-07
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