Admired for his outstanding musical intelligence and for the purity, power, and flexibility of his voice, tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan is quickly becoming one of the most sought after young tenors singing today. Making his Carnegie Hall début in December 2003 as Percy in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena with the Opera Orchestra of New York, New York Newsday reported:

“Armenian tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan offered a winsome portrayal of Percy, his elegant and affecting voice possessing a gorgeous, veiled tone a bit reminiscent of renowned Italian tenor Giuseppe di Stefano. If this outing is any indication, Manucharyan is definitely worth keeping an eye on.”

Mr. Manucharyan joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in 2007-08 covering the difficult role of Pylade in Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride and Alfredo in La Traviata while continuing to do concert work in Boston (Verdi Requiem), Eugene, Long Island and in New York at Carnegie Hall with the New York Chorale Society with the Berlioz Requiem. He will begin his 2008-09 season with Boheme for Tulsa Opera and return to Carnegie Hall with Opera Orchestra of New York as Lykov in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar’s Bride with Olga Borodina and the Rossini Stabat Mater with New York Chorale Society.

In recent season Mr. Manucharyan has appeared as Riccardo in Maria di Rohan by Donizetti at the Wexford Festival, followed by a debut in Boston with the Verdi Requiem, Rodolfo in La bohème with the Teatro San Carlo of Naples in Salerno, Gerald in Lakmé with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the New York City Opera and Argirio in Rossini’s Tancredi at the Caramoor Festival. He opened the 2006-2007 season of the Minnesota Opera as Rodrigo in Rossini’s La donna del lago and made his début with San Diego Opera in 2008, continuing the expansion of his bel canto roles, as Leicester in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, and will also be heard as Nadir in Pearl Fishers in Boston.

Mr. Manucharyan joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in 2007-08 covering the difficult role of Pylade in Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride and Alfredo in La Traviata while continuing to do concert work in Boston (Verdi Requiem), Eugene, Long Island and in New York at Carnegie Hall with the New York Chorale Society with the Berlioz Requiem. He will begin his 2008-09 season with Boheme for Tulsa Opera. In 2004-2005 he made his New York City Opera début as Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles. Early in the season he débuted the role of Lenski in Eugene Onegin at the Tulsa Opera, and the role of Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Toledo Opera. He was tenor soloist in the Verdi Requiem with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and returned to Carnegie Hall for Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the New York Choral Society, and performed the same opus with the Eugene Symphony.

Mr. Manucharyan opened the 2003-2004 season as Alfredo in La traviata at the Tulsa Opera, made a dazzling début as Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles with the Or Questa Symphonic del Estado de Mexico, returned to Baltimore Opera to sing the Duke in Rigoletto and to the Or Questa Symphonic del Estado de Mexico as Rodolfo in La bohème, was guest soloist in a gala concert in Boston celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the birth of composer Aram Khachaturian, and sang his first Alfredo in La traviata with the Boston Concert Opera. He closed the season at the Caramoor International Music Festival in the role of Potosí in the world premiere of Donizetti’s long lost opera Elisabeth. Other recent performances have included the Dvorak Stabat Mater with the Masterworks Chorale, Lukas Foss’ Griffelkin with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which was performed both in Boston and at the Tanglewood Festival, his début with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the role of Saro in Tigranian’s Anoush at the Michigan Opera Theater, and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Baltimore Opera as Tamino.

A native of Yerevan, Armenia, in 1995 Mr. Manucharyan was engaged by the Armenian National Opera as a principal artist, and sang leading roles including Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Cassio in Otello, Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Ramiro in La cenerentola, Beppe/Arlecchino in I pagliacci and Saro in Anoush. As featured soloist with the State Philharmonic Orchestra from 1995 to 1998, Mr. Manucharyan performed in various repertoire including Verdi Requiem, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and the Berlioz Requiem. While a graduate student at Boston University’s Opera Institute, he sang the title role in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, and Rodolfo in La bohème.