Kristina Mkhitaryan

– Kristina Mkhitaryan is stunning as Violetta, whether using her powerful but warm voice to convey the joy of the party-girl when we first meet her or the misery of losing her love and then her life. Her ability to convey such a wide range of emotions so convincingly, especially in the final scene, shows that her glorious voice is matched by outstanding acting ability. (William Hartston, Daily Express – about La traviata at The Royal Opera House in London July 2023)

Kristina Mkhitaryan from Armenia is a graduate of the Galina Vishnevskaya Theatre Studio, Moscow. She has won first prize at the Queen Sonja International Competition in Oslo (2013), third prize at the Neue Stimmen Competition (2013) and the Viotti Competition in Vercelli (2014). She won 2nd Prize at the 2017 Operalia Competition.

Career highlights include La traviata at the Royal Opera House in London, a role which she now sings to acclaim in major opera houses worldwide, like Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National de Paris and Grand Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

She has also sung Gilda in Rigoletto with Opera Australia and Hamburgische Staatsoper, as well as the title role in Alcina at Opéra National de Lorraine, and Armida in Rinaldo under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev at the Glyndebourne Festival.

At the Grand Théâtre de Genève she was Leila in Les pêcheurs de perles, the Wiener Staatsoper in productions including La traviata, L'elisir d'amore and Turandot and the Metropolitan Opera in their productions of Gianni Schicchi and La bohème (Musetta).

Spring 2023 she made her role debut in Dutch National Opera's acclaimed production of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda.

Season 2024/25 she returned to the role of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin both at the Royal Opera House, London (a new production by Ted Huffman) and at Teatro Real Madrid. She sang the title role in Massenet’s Manon at Weiner Staatsoper, and she also made her role debut as Mimi in La Bohème in March this year (2025) at the Metropolitan Opera. In May she will sing La traviata at Teatro Perez Galdos in Spain, and also as the title role in a concert performance of Maria Padilla at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville.

Season 2025/26 she will sing Micaëla in Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, before she comes to Bergen National Opera for the title role as Violetta in La traviata, directed by Ole Anders Tandberg,

Kristina Mkhitaryan visited Bergen National Opera for the first time in 2016, as Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi.

Main source: Askonas Holt

Updated April 2025