Vartan Gabrielian

Bass-baritone Vartan Gabrielian’s 2023-24 season marks numerous role and house debuts – including his company debut with Opera San José. Later this season, Gabrielian will make a festival debut as Nick Shadow (Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress) at the Verbier Festival, a house debut as Dottore Grenvil (Verdi’s La traviata) at the Paris Opera, and appear as Fasolt (Wagner Das Rheingold) at Edmonton Opera. A sought-after concert performer, Gabrielian will also be performing Handel’s Messiah with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at the end of 2023. Highlights from the 2022-23 season include Masetto and Commendatore (Mozart’s Don Giovanni) at the National Arts Centre, Nourabad (Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles) at the Vancouver Opera, and a return to the Canadian Opera Company to perform Dottore (Verdi’s Macbeth) and cover Figaro (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro), Banquo (Macbeth), and Angelotti (Verdi’s Tosca).