Arias of Love & Sorrow Gevorg Hakobyan, Constantine Orbelian Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & John Fisher

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Otello:
• 1 Verdi: Otello: Vanne, la tua meta già vedo - Credo in un Dio crudel 04:39
• Umberto Giordano (1867 - 1948): Andrea Chénier:
• 2 Giordano: Andrea Chénier: Nemico della patria 04:26
• Levon Khoja-Eynatyan (1904 - 1954): Arshak II:
• 3 Khoja-Eynatyan: Arshak II: Arhsak's Arioso 02:36
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): Il Tabarro:
• 4 Puccini: Il Tabarro: Nulla! Silenzio! 03:09
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): Aleko:
• 5 Rachmaninoff: Aleko: Ves' tabar spit 05:44
• Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco:
• 6 Verdi: Nabucco: Ah, prigioniero io sono! - Dio di Giuda 04:04
• Un ballo in maschera:
• 7 Verdi: Un ballo in maschera: Alzati, là tuo figlio - Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima 05:47
• Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887): Prince Igor:
• 8 Borodin: Prince Igor: Ni sna ni otdycha izmuchennoj duse 06:46
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908): The Tsar's Bride:
• 9 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride: Ne tot teper ya stal, kuda ty, udal' prezhnyaya, devalas 05:15
• Pyotr Iiyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): The Queen of Spades, Op. 68, TH 10:
• 10 Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades, Op. 68, TH 10: Odnazhdy v Versale 04:43
• Armen Tigranyan (1879 - 1950): Anoush:
• 11 Tigranyan: Anoush: Dushman dardzanq en harsanqic 04:24
• David Bek:
• 12 Tigranyan: David Bek: Oh, im chqnakh, sirun hayreniq 04:24
• Total Runtime 55:57

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Gevorg Hakobyan is a rising star on the international operatic stage. His deep, resonant voice brings drama and colour to every aria on this album. Three unusual selections in Armenian – including Mosi’s Aria from Anoush, the most important opera in the Armenian language – enhance this debut recording. Drawing from favorite operas such as Verdi’s Otello and Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Arias of Love & Sorrow joins recent Delos releases including Oksana Dyka’s In Questa Reggia, Oksana Volkova’s Poison D’Amour and Kristian Benedikt’s Tenore di forza in bringing new and captivating voices to fans of opera.

Gevorg Hakobyan, baritone
Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Constantine Orbelian, conductor
John Fisher, conductor

Gevorg Hakobyan
Armenian dramatic baritone Gevorg Hakobyan studied at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan with Maestro Sergey Danielyan. In 2008, Gevorg was awarded both the Gold Medal and First Prize at the prestigious First International Pavel Lisitsian Baritone Competition in Moscow, and in 2011 was recognized as a Merited Artist of the Republic of Armenia.

Looking ahead, Gevorg will make his house debuts at Teatro Filarmonico Verona (Il tabarro) and will return to the Teatro Real Madrid.

Gevorg has appeared at Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real Madrid, Liceu Barcelona, de Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Palau de les Arts Valencia, Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Mariinsky Theatre, Mikhailovsky Theatre, Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Stuttgart Opera, Terme di Caracalla Roma, Teatro Communale di Bologna, Palau des les Arts Reina Sofia, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Opera de Lille, Opera di Genova and Teatro Regio di Torino as well as the White Nights Festival St. Petersburg and Savonlinna Festival

He has worked with the following stage directors: Barrie Kosky, Stefano Poda, Robert Carsen, Lydia Steier, Julia Pevzner, Rimas Tuminas, Alice Hegimbashyan, Gegam Grigorian, Mariusz Trelinkski, Marina Bianchi and conductors such as Lorenzo Viotti, Anton Grishanin, Placido Domingo, Daniele Callegari, Axel Kober, Marco Armiliato, Nicola Luisotti, Alexandre Bloch, Jader Bignamini, Dmitri Jurowski, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Tugan Sokhiev, Daniel Oren, Henrik Nanasi and Oksana Lyniv.

"... tonight a trip through the darkest pages of human thoughts was arranged by the frighteningly demonic Scarpia of Gevorg HAKOBYAN. The Armenian baritone was the most vivid impression that we took with us from this evening. His “Va Tosca” perfectly mixed the ubiquitous influx of negative energy with the divine holiness, and the level of intensity - in the best traditions of theatrical drama - constantly increased. In this case, one could dare to use the phrase "world-class dramatic baritone", and it will be appropriate." (Oper Plus, Martin Kajzar)

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