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The Armenian soprano, Lilit Davtyan, graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, where she completed both Bachelor’s (2020) and Master’s degrees (2022) as concert pianist. Alongside her piano studies, she worked as a repetiteur while simultaneously studying voice at the Yerevan State Opera Studio. She is an alumna of the Young Artist Program of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (August 2021-December 20233), where she studied under Dmitri Vdovin, and was selected for both the Young Singers Project at the 2023 Salzburg Festival and the Académie of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2024. She is the recipient of numerous international awards, including First Prize at the Concorso Internazionale Città di Pesaro of the Rossini Opera Festival, Second Prize and the Special Prize for Russian Repertoire at the José Carreras Grand Prix (Moscow, 2021), the Special Prize for the Interpretation of Rachmaninoff Songs at the International Rachmaninoff Competition (2022), was a finalist at the Neue Stimmen Competition (2022), a semi-finalist at Operalia (Mumbai, 2024), and won the Grand Prix at the XII International Competition-Festival of Young Performers in Yekaterinburg (2016).
Lilit Davtyan is emerging as one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation, praised for her pure and unique vocal timbre, refined musicianship, stylistic versatility and captivating stage presence. Her debut as Cleopatra in George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare directed by Damiano Michieletto and conducted by Stefano Montanari received outstanding reviews from the Italian press, celebrating her return to Teatro Petruzzelli shortly after her first appearance in Bari in Debussy’s Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien.
Lilit Davtyan has also frequently collaborated with the Salzburger Festspiele, appearing in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (La Princesse/La Chauve-Souris) in 2023, and returning in 2024 as the Pale Lady in Peter Sellars’ acclaimed production of Prokofiev’s The Gambler, conducted by Timur Zangiev. Recent engagements include selected Haydn Arias on tour with Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico / Kammerorchester Basel, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, Luigi Nono’s Canti di vita e d’amore with Sir Donald Runnicles at the Berliner Philharmonie, Sophie in Werther with Enrique Mazzola at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Frasquita and Pamina at the Semperoper Dresden, Mozart-Gala at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and Pamina at the Soirées Lyriques de Sanxay.
At the Deutsche Oper Berlin (since September 2023), Lilit Davtyan has earned widespread praise for role debuts including Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro under the musical director of Corrado Rovaris, Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Marzelline in L.v. Beethoven's Fidelio, Gilda in Rigoletto, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims), Lauretta in Il Trittico, Shepherd/Der Hirt in Tannhäuser, Resi in R. Strauss' Intermezzo, Bice in Korngold’s Violanta, Pepik and Heuschreck in Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen, first Blumenmädchen in Parsifal and many more.
The 2026-2027 season marks Lilit Davtyan's debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Frasquita in Georges Bizet's Carmen, as Morgana in G.F. Handel's Alcina at the Opéra de Lille with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée, in Carmina Burana with the Dresdner Philharmonie under Sir Donald Runnicles, in G.F. Handel's The Messiah with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi with Giulio Cilona and in a repertoire of Russian Lieder with the Sinfonieorchester Basel and Anna Handler. She also returns to the Salzburger Festspiele as Celia in W.A. Mozart's Lucio Silla with Adam Fischer and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
As a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2023, she appears next season as the soprano soloist in J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 under Marc Minkowski, Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Riccardo Minasi, and reprises some of her acclaimed roles including Gilda in Rigoletto, Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Voce dal Cielo in Don Carlo. In the summer of 2028, she makes her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Norina in Don Pasquale.
Lilit Davtyan speaks Armenian, English, Russian, Italian and German. She is represented worldwide by Fabiana Dalpiaz at Askonas Holt. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany. |
