Rising Armenian soprano Mané Galoyan enters her third year of the Houston Grand Opera Studio in the 2017-2018 season, where she will make her role debut as Violetta in La traviata, as well as the Confidante in Elektra.
In the 2016-17 season, Ms. Galoyan performed Adina in L’elisir d’amore at the Houston Grand Opera. She also performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G with the San Antonio Symphony and gave recitals at Balliol College at Oxford University, the Opera America Emerging Artists Recital series in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Mané Galoyan made her Houston Grand Opera debut as the Kitchen Girl in Rusalka in the 2015-2016 season, where she also performed the roles of Margaret Hughes in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players, the Forest Bird in Siegfried, and Lucy Goodman in the world premiere of David Hanlon and Stephanie Fleischmann’s After the Storm, produced by HGOco. That same season, Ms. Galoyan made her Wolf Trap Opera debut as Smorfiosa in Florian Leopold Gassmann’s L’opera seria.
Ms. Galoyan’s extensive concert performances include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Schubert’s Mass in G and Mass in C, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, all with the Armenian National Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Fauré Requiem with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mané Galoyan is a winner of numerous international competitions, including First Prize in the 27th Eleanor McCollum Competition and Concert of Arias with Houston Grand Opera, Third Prize in the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, Fourth Prize in the 6th International Vocal Competition China in Ningbo, Third Prize in the 2017 Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, a 2014 prize in the Has Gabor Belvedere Competition, and first prize in the Bibigul Tulegenova International Singing Competition in Kazakhstan.
Ms. Galoyan holds two degrees from the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory in Armenia, where she was named the 2013 winner of the President of the Republic of Armenia Youth Prize. She was also a participant in the HGO Young Artist Vocal Academy in 2013.