SOFIA, Bulgaria — Armenian baritone Grisha Martirosyan has claimed the second prize at the 2025 edition of Operalia, the prestigious world opera competition founded by Plácido Domingo.
Martirosyan also won the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize of Zarzuela, organizers announced on October 27.
This year’s competition took place in Sofia, October 20 to 26.
A total of eleven contestants advanced to the final round.
The Armenian baritone Grisha Martirosyan studied at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan and at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. He is a prize-winner of several international singing competitions, with awards including first prize at the Gohar Gasparyan Singing Competition in Yerevan in 2019, second prize and the audience prize at the Concorso Lirico Internazionale Magda Olivero in 2022, and first prize, audience prize and the Dame Joan Sutherland Prize at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, also in 2022. He is a member of the Mascarade Emerging Artists Programme in Florence, under whose auspices he appeared in April 2022 in excerpts from Pagliacci (Tonio) and Don Pasquale (Malatesta) at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. In student productions he has appeared in scenes from Eugene Onegin (title role), L’elisir d’amore (Belcore), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro), La traviata (Giorgio Germont) and Lucia di Lammermoor (Enrico). Grisha Martirosyan will participate in the Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 2023 to 2025.
