Marianna Hovanisyan

Armenian soprano Marianna Hovanisyan joined the Jette Parker Artists Programme in the 2024/25 Season. She is a graduate of the Yerevan State Conservatory and Mascarade Opera Studio in Florence.   Awards include the Audience Prize, Eva Kleinitz and The Beckwith Foundations Special Prizes at the 2022 Portofino International Competition (CLIP), First Prize in the Gohar Gasparyan National Singing Competition and the 2020 Presidential Prize for young opera singers in her native Armenia. She has performed in opera scenes as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Adina (L’Elisir d’amore) and Norina (Don Pasquale) at La Fenice, Venice, and Nella and Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi) and Clorinda (La Cenerentola) at the Yerevan Opera Studio. She has also covered the role of Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the 2018 New Generation Festival in Florence.  2024/25 roles included Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Iris (Semele) and Frasquita (Carmen) for The Royal Opera and soprano soloist for the Birmingham Royal Ballet (Luna).  2025/26 roles include Papagena (The Magic Flute), soprano soloist for the Royal Ballet (Woolf Works), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) and Masha in the JPAP chamber production of Four Sisters by Elena Langer.