Ani Yorentz Sargsyan

BIOGRAPHIE

 Armenian lyric soprano, Ani Yorentz Sargsyan, developed a passion for singing already at the age of six. Her astonishing development as an artist led her through different countries into an international career. A graduate of the Yerevan State Conservatory and the Yerevan Opera Studio, she continued her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. During her studies she received a scholarship from the Oskar and Vera Ritter Foundation as well as the Alfred Toepfer Foundation.

She has received numerous international prizes as well as the Youth Prize at the Romansiada International Song Competition in 2002, International Competition « Yantarniy Solovey » Kaliningrad in 2004, claimed Third Prize at the « Delping Games » International Singing Competition in Kiev in 2005, Second Prize at the « Republican Competition T. Sasandaryan » in Yerevan in 2006.
In 2009 she won First Prize at the competition for the role of Micaela (Carmen) in the Schlossoper Haldenstein festival, which included performances at the Tonhalle Zürich.

She has just made her role debut as Iolanta in Tchaikovsky’s ’’Iolanta’’ at the Tel Aviv Opera. 

Last engagements led Ani to the Opera of Beijing with the role of Juliette in Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette”. As Juliette she also made her Italian debut in Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari and embodied the character at Deutsche Oper am Rein in Düsseldorf. 

In 2022-23, she sang the title role in Rusalka at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv conducted by Dan Ettinger, at the Opera National de Bordeaux under direction Domingo Hindoyan, at the Opera Grand-Avignon and at the Theater Freiburg were to follow. 

An other highlight was her latest debut of Verdi’s Requiem and the Role Nedda in “I Pagliacci” at Staatsoper Hannover. Her Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff at the National Opera Tallin was a huge success. 

Ani Yorentz Sargsyan excelled as Angèle Didier at the Landestheater Linz in the new production of the operetta “Der Graf von Luxembourg”. This has been broadcasted in Austrian TV on ORF3 and had been awarded the prize as “The best Operetta Production of the year” in Austria. 

Among others she has appeared as a guest soloist in concerts with The Hague Resident Orchestra and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra. 

After making her debut at the Dortmund Theatre,“capturing the essence of Mimi with her passion and energy” in a premiere of « La Bohème” she was as a guest performer in Kassel, singing the roles of Mimi in addition to Helena in « A Midsummer Night’s Dream ». 

Ani has been a principal soloist for a few seasons at the Staatstheater Kassel where she performed as Mimi/Musetta (La Bohème), Liu (Turandot), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Micaela (Carmen), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Michael (Handel: Saul), Pamina and First Lady (Magic Flute), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Ninetta (Love of the Three Oranges), Semira (Artaserse), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Anna Reich (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Baronin (Der Wildschütz) and others… 

During this period she also received the youth price from promotional organisation (2014) as well as the Irma Jansa Prize as honour and recognition for outstanding singing performance (2016).