
ABOUT
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.
Recent engagements led Ani Yorentz to the Opera House of Beijing with the role of Juliette in Gounods “Romeo et Juliette”. As Juliette she made her Italian debut in Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari. She also embodied the character at Deutsche Oper am Rein in Düsseldorf and at State Theater Kassel.
Breathtaking Rusalkas at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, at Opera National de Bordeaux, at the Opera Grand Avignon in France and at the Theater Freiburg in Germany were to follow.
Her Alice Ford in Verdis Falstaff at the National Opera Tallin was a huge success.
Ani Yorentz Sargsyan excelled as Angèle Didier in 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 prise 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 at the Kassel State Theatre, singing the roles of Mimi in addition to Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Ani Yorentz Sargsyan has for few seasons been a principal soloist at the Kassel State Theatre, where she performed as Mimi/Musetta (La Bohème), Liu (Turandot), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Micaela (Carmen), Ninetta (Love of the Three Oranges), 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), 4th Maid (Elektra), Anna Reich (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Alice Ford (Falstaff) and Baronin (Der Wildschütz) and others...
During this period she also received the youth prize from promotional organization (2014) as well as the Irma Jansa Prize as honor and recognition for outstanding singing performance (2016).
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, such as the Youth Prize at the Romansiada International Song Competition in 2002, International Competition "Yantarny 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.