Armenian soprano Marianna Hovanisyan is a former Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Opera House (2024-26), where her roles included Barbarina (The Marriage of Figaro), Iris (Semele), Frasquita (Carmen), Papagena (The Magic Flute) and Soprano in The Royal Ballet’s Woolf Works. A graduate of the Yerevan State Conservatory and Mascarade Opera Studio in Florence, her awards include the Audience Prize, Eva Kleinitz Award and Beckwith Foundation Award at the 2023 CLIP Portofino Competition, and Armenia’s Presidential Prize (2020). Her roles in opera scenes include Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Hanna (Die lustige Witwe), Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro) for The Royal Opera, and Pamina, Adina and Norina at La Fenice in Venice. Also active as a dancer, drummer and model, she is a former principal singer at the Armenian State Musical Comedy Theatre, and in 2021 was honoured by the Mayor of Yerevan. 2026/27 highlights at The Royal Opera include Pamina (The Magic Flute) and Blumenmädchen (Parsifal).