Khachatur Badalyan graduated with on ours from the Don State University in 204 and then studied at the Rachmaninov State Conservatory of Rostov (Associate Professor Petrova’s class). He worked in the Rostov Regional Philharmonic.
Between 2007 and 2012, he was a soloist at the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow. In September 2008, he became a guest soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, where he sang Vaudemont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Rudolf in Puccini’s La Boheme.
In 2008, he joined the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre as a guest soloist.
In 2012, he became a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre where he made his debut signing the part of Hoffmann in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. In 2011 to 2013, Khachatur appeared as Rudolf (La Boheme) in the Bellini Opera House and La Fenice theatre (Italy),as Alfred (Verdi’s La Traviata) in the Grand Theatre in Warsaw (Poland) and the German State Opera, as Prince (Dvorak’s Rusalka) in Opera de Montreal (Canada),Pinkerton (Puccini’s Madama Butterfly) in the Cagliari Opera House and the Teatro Carlo Felice (Italy),Jose (Bizet’s Carmen) in the Opera Bastille (France),Foresto (Verdi’s Attila) in Arena di Verona (Italy),and the tenor part in Verdi’s Requiem in the Mariinsky Theatre.
In the 2015/2016 season he performed as Prince in Rusalka in the Minnesota Opera (USA),Turiddu in Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana in the Municipal Theatre of Santiago (Chile),and as Ismail in Verdi’s Nabucco in Ópera de Las Palmas Alfredo Kraus (Spain).
In 2016, Khachatur returned to the Novaya Opera Theatre.
Awards and Honours:
- Prize-winner at the 1st Marcello Giordani International Vocal Competition (2nd prize, Italy, 2011)
- Prize-winner of the 3rd Vishnevskaya International Competition for Opera Singers (Grand Prix, Moscow, 2010)
- Prize-winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Competition for Tenors (First Prize, St. Petersburg, 2008)
- Prize-winner of the Riccardo Zandonai Competition for Opera Singers (Special prize, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2007)
Roles performed at the Novaya Opera:
Don José in Bizet's Carmen
Vladimir Igorevich in Borodin's Prince Igor
Sinodal in Rubinstein's The Demon
Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata
Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto
Ismaele in Verdi's Nabucco
Lohengrin in Wagner's Lohengrin
Manrico in Verdi's Il trovatore
Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Rodolfo in Puccini's La bohème
Faust in Gounod's Faust
Vaudémont in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta
Georg in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer
Prince in Dvorak's Rusalka (in concert)
Vladimir Igorevich in Borodin's Prince Igor (in concert)
Second Jew and Second Nazarene in Strauss’ Salome (in concert)
King Charles VII in Tchaikovsky's The Maid of Orleans (in concert)
Calaf in Puccini's Turandot (in concert)
Paolo in Rachmaninoff's Francesca da Rimini (in concert)
Tenor part in Verdi's Requiem
Maria Callas (musical offering)
Novaya Opera Tenors (gala concert)
Bravissimo! (opera mix)
This is Opera! (dramatized performance)
Opera&Jazz (New Year's Eve Show)
