Ruzan Mantashyan

Born in Armenia, the multi-award-winning soprano Ruzan Mantashyan studied piano and voice, later perfecting her artistry at the Atelier lyrique of the Paris Opera.

Within just a few years, the young singer established herself as an internationally sought-after performer through her successful appearances. She appears regularly at major opera houses such as the Vienna, Bavarian, and Hamburg State Operas, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, Zurich Opera House, Dutch National Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Genève, and the Glyndebourne Festival, as well as in Toulouse, Lausanne, Limoges, Modena, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Her most important repertoire includes Fiordiligi, Susanna, and Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Mimì (La bohème), Violetta (La traviata), Marguerite (Faust), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), the title roles in Cendrillon and Rusalka, Micaëla (Carmen), Natasha Rostova in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Xenia (Boris Godunov), L’enfant (L’enfant et les sortilèges), and Cleofide (Poro).