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Born in Armenia, Nina Minasyan graduated from the Tchaikovsky Music School and went on to study at the Yerevan State Conservatory with N. Melkumova. In 2010 she became a soloist of the Erevan Conservatory Opera Studio and performed there the roles of Serpina (La Serva Padrona), Serafina (Il campanello). Her repertoire also includes Gilda (Rigoletto), Amina and Lisa (La sonnambula), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Norina (Don Pasquale), Musetta (La Boheme) and Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride), The Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel), The Queen of The Night (Die Zauberflöte), Despina (Cosi fan tutte).
In 2011 she took part in the “Sazandaryan and Lisitsyan” competition and won the first prize. In 2011 she entered the Young Artists Program of the Bolshoi Theatre where she studied with Philippe Auguin, Richard Bado, Mzia Bakhturidze, Alessandro Bicci, Alberto Zedda, Carol Vaness, Irina Bogacheva, Michael Heaston, Inga Kalna, Evgeny Nesterenko, Elena Obraztsova, Luba Orfenova, Stephanie Rhodes, Semjon Skigin, Elizabeth Vidal, Kenneth Weiss, Dolora Zajick, Rene Jacobs, Diane Zola among others. She made her debut in the Bolshoi Theatre with the role of Xenya (Boris Godunov) and went on to perform the roles of Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Masha in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades and Princess Ninetta in Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges as well as Ksenia in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov.
Her concert experience includes a tour in England and Italy in concert performance of Rossini’s La Donna del Lago in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall conducted by Luciano Acocella as well as Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Barbarina) conducted by Vassily Sinaisky. She also took part in numerous concerts of the Young Artist Program in Moscow and throughout Russia. In December 2012 she performed at New York City’s famous Carnegie Hall in a concert entitled “New Stars for a New Century” conducted by Konstantin Orbelyan. In March 2013 she made a successful role debut as Lisa et the new production of Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the Bolshoi directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi and conducted by Enrique Mazzola. Among her future engagements is the role of Polovtesian Maiden in the new production of Borodin’s Prince Igor at the Bolshoi. In March 2014 she made her role debut as The Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. In December of the same year she made her European debut in the same role at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She also performed in Frankfurt Oper as Lisa (La sonnambula) in a new production conducted by Eun Sun Kim and directed by Tina Lanik. Her next debut was in December in the role of Gilda Verdi’s Rigoletto staged by Robert Carsen and conducted by Evelino Pido.
In season of 2015/2016 season she will return to Deutsche Oper Berlin as The Queen of The Night (Die Zauberflöte). She also will return to The Bolshoi Theatre as Gilda, and will make her debut in a new production as Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale.
In January 2016 she is going to make her debut in the role of The Queen of Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel.