Varduhi Abrahamyan was born in Born in a family of musicians. She starts her professional career at Opéra de Paris, where she appears almost every season in a different repertoire, including the roles of Carmen in the homonymous opera, Isabella (L’italiana in Algeri), Preziosilla (La forza del destino), Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Paulina (Pique Dame), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Bersi (Andrea Chénier), Mme. Quickly (Falstaff), Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Lydia Chukovskaya (in the world première of Bruno Mantovani’s Akhmatova), Cornelia (Giulio Cesare), Maddalena (Rigoletto).
Her career soon leads her to appear on the most prestigious venues, both national and international, in a wide repertoire which spans from Monteverdi to Wagner.
Season 2022/23 starts with Verdi’s Requiem at Festival Verdi in Parma, followed by her house debuts with the Royal Opera House as Bradamante in Alcina, a role she also performs at Opéra de Monte-Carlo along with Rossini’s Stabat Mater, and with Teatro di San Carlo as Fricka in Die Walküre. The season ends with Adelaide di Borgogna at Rossini Opera Festival.
Highlights in the past seasons include the house debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Rigoletto and Eugene Onegin, Don Carlo at Opera Las Palmas and Opéra de Marseille, L’Italiana in Algeri and Norma at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Lucrezia Borgia at Donizetti Opera Festival. She performed as Carmen at Opéra de Paris, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Hong Kong Opera, Zurich Opera, Bolshoi Theatre, Hamburg State Opera, Opera de Oviedo, Atlanta Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Teatro Regio di Torino.
Further highlights include Alcina with Theatre dès Champs Élysées, Zurich Opera and Opéra de Monte-Carlo with Cecilia Bartoli, Benvenuto Cellini at Opera di Roma, Samson et Dalila at Palau de les Arts di Valencia, where she had debuted in Nabucco and Norma, alongside Mariella Devia. Moreover, Semiramide and La donna del lago with Rossini Opera Festival, Opéra de Marseille and Theater an der Wien, Eugene Onegin and Ariodante with Canadian Opera Company and Grand Theatre de Genève, Rinaldo with Theatre dès Champs-Élysées, Nerestano (Zaïra di Bellini) with Festival di Montpellier and for Radio France, Pauline (Pique Dame) with Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse.
In concert, she sang Verdi’s Requiem with Myung-Whun Chung at Festival de Saint-Denis, Verdi’s Requiem in tour with MusicAeterna Ensemble in Moscow, Paris, Köln, Hamburg, Vienna and Athens, Rossini’s Stabat Mater with Accademia di Santa Cecilia and with Philarmonie de Paris conducted by Jesús López Cobos, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Martigny and Lugano with Cecilia Bartoli, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater at Festival de Saint-Denis with Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France.
Upcoming plans include Maometto II at Teatro di San Carlo, L’Olimpiade at Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Carmen at Gran Teatre del Liceu and at Oper Frankfurt, Don Carlo at Opéra de Monte-Carlo.