Montserrat Caballe: Artsakh source of ChristianityJune 6, 2013 - 11:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Artsakh is the very source of Christianity, world-famed Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe said following her tour of Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shushi. NKR President Bako Sahakyan gave the singer and her daughter a present of gold crosses sanctified by Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan in Gandzasar Monastery. As Ms Caballe noted, she was visiting Artsakh not only in a capacity of a singer, but also as a UN goodwill ambassador and UNESCO peace envoy. The singer, accompanied by the wife of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Gohar and well-known astrophysicist Gagik Israelyan, who arranged Ms Caballe’s visit, returned to Yerevan where the famous singer is due to perform on June 9. To perform along with Ms Caballe in Yerevan’s Spendiarian Opera and Ballet National Theatre are her daughter, well-known soprano Montserrat Martí and baritone David Babayants, with Eduard Topchyan and Ramon Tebar as conductors. Well-known English basist Glenn Hughes, keyboardist Derek Sherinian, singer Al Bano and astronaut Charlie Duke also travelled to Artsakh with Ms Caballe. Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |