Asmik Grigorian

"One of the fiercest dramatic talents in the field" (The New York Times), Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian's "versatility is astounding" (The Times), with a "wild voice [that is] rich and dark" (Le Monde). Regularly engaged at the world's leading opera houses, she has appeared at the Wiener Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera, Salzburger Festspiele, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Teatro alla Scala.

In the 2026/27 season, she makes her debut in Carmen at the Salzburg Festival under Teodor Currentzis, returns as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival, appears in Bluebeard's Castle at Wiener Staatsoper, and continues performances of her theatrical concert Una Diva is Born worldwide.

Career highlights include Salome at Staatsoper Hamburg, Rusalka at the Royal Opera House and Bayerische Staatsoper, Jenůfa at Staatsoper Berlin and with the London Symphony Orchestra, Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Turandot at Wiener Staatsoper, Chrysothemis in Elektra and Senta in Der fliegende Holländer at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals respectively, Elisabetta in Don Carlos with Wiener Staatsoper, and a new production of Norma at Theater an der Wien.

A founding member of Vilnius City Opera, Asmik is a two-time recipient of the Golden Stage Cross, Lithuania's highest honour for singers. She was named Best Female Lead at the 2019 Austrian Music Theater Awards and Female Opera Singer of the Year by the Ópera XXI Association in 2022, received the Opus Klassik 2023 Female Singer of the Year Award for her debut album Dissonance with pianist Lukas Geniušas, and in 2024 was honoured with both the Grand Jury Prize at the Austrian Music Theatre Awards and the Theaterpreis DER FAUST Award for her performance as Salome at Staatsoper Hamburg.

Asmik has released several acclaimed recordings with Alpha Classics, including her debut recital album Dissonance with Lukas Geniušas, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mikko Franck, and Laws of Solitude, featuring Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder in both orchestral and piano versions. She has also appeared on numerous commercially released DVDs, including Elektra and Macbeth from the Salzburger Festspiele and Rusalka from the Royal Opera House. 

Since her international breakthrough in Madama Butterfly at the Royal Swedish Opera, Asmik has established an exceptional repertoire spanning Strauss, Wagner, Janáček, Puccini and Verdi, earning worldwide acclaim for performances including Salome, Jenůfa, Rusalka, Tatiana, Marietta, Lady Macbeth, Marie in Wozzeck, Chrysothemis, Turandot, Elisabetta, Manon Lescaut and Senta. She collaborates regularly with many of the world’s leading conductors and directors, including Gianandrea Noseda, Franz Welser-Möst, Vladimir Jurowski, Alan Gilbert, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Romeo Castellucci, Claus Guth, Christof Loy, Barrie Kosky and Alex Ollé.