“Remember the name Liparit Avetisyan because that way you’ll be ahead of the game when he becomes a star”. His “bel canto” has a wonderfully easy flow with brilliant, sweet, high notes, and “tenor sobs”. The colour with which he uses it makes people hold their breath.

A sensational, stylish Duke, swagger, but also elegant. He is an aristocratic bastard bearing something of the young Pavarotti in his demeanor and Italianate tenor. His Alfredo is excitable and impulsive with a fresh voice, and ardent manners. His singing has an exceptional poetic quality to the best of that can be utterly beguiling. Liparit’s “Un Di Felice” is marvelous in its amorous warmth and tenderness.  He is good in humorous roles as well. He was called the funniest Nemorino who stole the hurts of the audience. He was like Charlie Chaplin in glorious Technicolor and the absolute highlight of the show. This is how authoritative music critics and great musicians of the opera world describe Liparit Avetisyan.

Armenian tenor Liparit Avetisyan has been hailed as one of the most exciting lyric tenors of his generation. He has appeared in theaters such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Zürich Opera, Opera Australia, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Frankfurt Opera, Hamburg State Opera and the Norwegian Opera in Oslo, Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, Seattle Opera, Teatro Colón and Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. His roles have included Alfredo in La traviata, Rodolfo in La bohème, Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Des Grieux in Manon, Don José in Carmen, the title role in Faust, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Vaudémont in Iolanta and Lensky in Eugene Onegin. Avetisyan’s opera highlights include Alfredo, Duke of Mantua and  Lensky at the Royal Opera House (London), Vaudémont in Iolanta with the Berlin Philharmonic, and returns to Covent Garden as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore and Dresden as Alfredo in La traviata.

Avetisyan’s recent highlights include Alfredo and Duke of Mantua at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Vaudémont in Iolanta with the Berlin Philharmonic. Avetisyan made his house debut at the Easter Festival Baden-Baden as Vaudémont and at the Den Norske Opera in Oslo as Duke. He will return to Dresden as Rodolfo in La Bohème and to Zürich as Duke in Rigoletto.

Avetisyan recorded the role of Cassio in Verdi’s Otello for Sony Classical (2020) with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, starring Carlos Alvarez as Iago, Federica Lombardi as Desdemona. Music Director: Sir Antonio Pappano, Orchestra e Choro dell‘Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. The BBC Music Magazine wrote that Liparit Avetisyan as Cassio has the most exquisite youthful heroic tone one could wish for. The album is the Opus Klassik 2021 Award Winner. It has been named “Opera Recording of the Year” (up to the 19th century). In 2021 relesed a DVD of Verdi’s Rigoletto with Liparit Avetisyan in the role of Duke of Mantua with the Orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Antonio Pappano conducts a dazzling cast with Carlos Alvarez, Liparit Avetisyan, Lisette Oropesa, Brindley Sherratt and Ramona Zaharia. In 2025 Liparit Avetisyan releases his first solo album on Delos: BELOVED ARIAS with the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Constantine Orbelian.

He has also been active on the concert stage in recent years, appearing at the XXI Stars of the White Nights festival in Saint Petersburg, Easter Festival in Moscow, Beethoven Festival in Poland, MustonenFest in Estonia, Musikfest Bremen in Germany and Midem Festival and Berlioz Festival in France. He performed in benefit concerts dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide with Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall and the Music Center at Strathmore in Washington.

Avetisyan has collaborated with the great conductors of our days including Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel Oren, Kirill Petrenko, Fabio Luisi, Antonello Manacorda, and Bertrand de Billy; and opera stars such as Ermonela Jaho, Pretty Yende, Asmik Grigorian, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Federica Lombardi, Sonya Yoncheva, Nadine Sierra, Lisette Oropesa, Ailyn Pérez, Plácido Domingo, Carlos Álvarez, Sir Bryn Terfel, Ambrogio Maestri, Jonas Kaufmann, and many others.

Since 2013 Avetisyan has been a leading artist of the Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre where he has sung Alfredo, Don José, Rodolfo, Pinkerton and the Young Gypsy in Rachmaninov’s Aleko. He debuted as the Duke in Rigoletto, sang Rodolfo in La bohème, Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville as well as the tenor part in Verdi’s and Mozart’s Requiems and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra under its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Eduard Topchjan.

Born in Yerevan, Avetisyan graduate of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, and the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, Liparit is a Prizewinner at the Maria Bieșu International Singing Competition (Second Prize, 2013) and the III Muslim Magomaev International Competition (Moscow, 2014). In 2017, he was awarded the “GOLDEN MASK” as the Best Opera Actor for the role of Des Grieux in Manon, as well as the Onegin National Opera Award (Saint Petersburg, 2016), the Artavazd National Theater Award as the Best Actor of the Year (Yerevan, 2016), Swallow Music Awards as Best Opera Singer (Yerevan, 2018). Liparit is a Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia.