Gevorg Hakobyan

Gevorg Hakobyan Baritone

Biography

Armenian dramatic baritone Gevorg Hakobyan studied at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan with Sergey Danielyan.

In 2008, he was awarded the gold medal and first prize at the First Pavel Lisitsian International Baritone Competition in Moscow, and in 2011 he was named Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia. He has worked with directors such as Barrie Kosky, Stefano Poda, Robert Carsen, Lydia Steier, Julia Pevzner, Gegam Grigorian, Mariusz Treliński, and Marina Bianchi, as well as conductors including Lorenzo Viotti, Anton Grishanin, Plácido Domingo, Daniele Callegari, Axel Kober, Marco Armiliato, Jader Bignamini, Dmitri Jurowski, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Tugan Sokhiev, Daniel Oren, Henrik Nanasi, Michele Gamba, and Oksana Lyniv.

In recent seasons, he has sung Baron Scarpia (Tosca) in Berlin, Sydney, and Rome; Michele (Il Tabarro), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), and Amonasro (Aida) in Verona; Rangoni (Boris Godunov) in Amsterdam; and Paolo (Simon Boccanegra) in Rome. In the 2025–2026 season, he will perform roles including Baron Scarpia in Amsterdam, at Oper in Steinbruch, and at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.

Debut at the Paris National Opera

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