Armenian lyric soprano, Ani Yorentz Sargsyan, developed a passion for singing already at the age of six.
Engagements lead Ani Yorentz to the Opera Hauses of Peking and Shanghai with the role of Juliette in Gounods “Romeo et Juliette”. With this Role recently she made her Italian debut in Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari. She has also embodied Juliette at Deutsche Oper am Rein in Düsseldorf, at State Theater Kassel and at Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern.
Currently she is performing the main role of Rusalka in the new Production at the Theater Freiburg in Germany.
A few months ago she was very successful as Alice Ford in Verdis Falstaff at the National Opera Tallin.
Last season Ani Yorentz Sargsyan impersonated Angèle Didier in the Landestheater Linz in the new production of the operetta “Der Graf von Luxembourg”, which was broadcasted in Austrian TV on ORF3.
She has appeared as a guest soloist 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 since 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) among others…
During this time she also received the youth price 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 Komitas 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.
Rusalka am Theater Freiburg
Engagements / Stage Repertoire
| Verdi | Messa da Requiem (staged version) | Soprano | Staatsoper Hannover, Germany 2024 |
| Dvořák | Rusalka | Rusalka (cz) | The Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv 2024 Opéra National de Bordeaux, Opéra Grand Avignon, France 2023 Theater Freiburg, Germany 2023 |
| Gounod | Romeo et Juliette | Juliette (fr) | NCPA, Beijing, China 2024
Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari, Italy 2022 Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Germany 2022 Deutsche Oper am Rein, Germany 2019 State Theater Kassel, Germany 2017 |
| Leoncavallo | I Pagliacci | Nedda (it) | Staatsoper Hannover, Germany 2024 State Theater Kassel, Germany 2020 |
| Verdi | Falstaff | Alice Ford (it) | Estonian National Opera 2022
State Theater Kassel, Germany 2018 |
| Lehár | Der Graf von Luxemburg | Angèle Didier (ger) | Landestheater Linz, Austria 2021 |
| Bizet | Carmen | Micaëla (fr) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2020 Tonhalle Zürich 2009 |
| Lortzing | Der Wildschütz | Baronin (ger) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2019 |
| Puccini | La Boheme | Mimi (it)
Musetta (it) |
Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra,
Yerevan, Armenia 2017 State Theater Kassel, Germany 2015 Theater Dortmund, 2012 State Theater Kassel, Germany 2017 |
| Puccini | Turandot | Liu (it) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2018 |
| Mozart | The Magic Flute | Pamina (ger) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2018 |
| Nicolai | Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor | Anna Reich (ger) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2017 Anhaltisches Theater Dessau Germany, 2018 |
| Strauss | Elektra | 4th maid (ger) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2017 |
| Mozart | The Marriage of Figaro | Susanna (it) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2016 |
| Prokofiev | The Love for Three Oranges | Ninetta (ger) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2016 |
| L. Vinci | Artaserse | Semira (it) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2015 |
| Mozart | The Magic Flute | 1st Dame (ger) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2013 |
| Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel | Gretel (ger) | State Theater Kassel, Ger. 2012, 2018 |
| Britten | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Helena (en) | State Theater Kassel, Germany 2012 |
| Puccini | La Rondine | Magda (it) | State Opera Yerevan (AM), 2008 |
| Puccini | Gianni Schicchi | Lauretta (it) | Opera Studio Yerevan (AM), 2007 |
Studied Repertoire / In process
| Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Contessa |
| Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | Tatyana |
| Bellini | I Capuletti e i Montecchi | Giulietta |
| Mozart | Idomeneo | Ilia |
| Mozart | Cosi fan tutte | Fiordiligi |
| Verdi | La Traviata | Violetta |