Yerevan to host concert dedicated to Gohar Gasparyan's 85th birth anniversaryDecember 21, 2009 - 16:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A concert dedicated to soprano Gohar Gasparyan's 85th birth anniversary will take place on Tuesday, December 22 in Yerevan. Concert organizers are the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre after Alexander Spendiaryan and Armenia's Ministry of Culture."The concert program includes performances by the prominent singer's best students and soloists from the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (David Babayan, Narine Yeghyan. Sofia Sayadyan, Hovhannes Ayvazyan, Armenuhi Seyrabyan etc.), as well as laureates of the contest in memory of Gohar Gasparyan. The audience will listen to works by Armenian and foreign composers," Lena Levonyan, Head of Soloists' Department at National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. Gohar Gasparyan born in an Armenian family in Cairo, on December 14, 1924, is also known as the "Armenian nightingale". Gasparyan studied at a Music Academy in the city. In 1948 she migrated to Soviet Armenia along with hundreds of thousands of other Armenians from the Middle East. From 1949 she had performed 23 operas at the Armenian Opera Theater. She also taught at Yerevan State Conservatory. Gasparyan was a People's Artist of the USSR and Hero of Socialist Work. She was also honored with Mesrop Mashtots order. Her repertoire included about 500 works by Russian, French. German and Italian composers. Gohar Gasparyan died on May 16, 2007. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | 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 Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. 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. |