2024

Aksel Daveyan

Aksel Daveyan is an Armenian baritone born in 1995. He studied at the Yerevan State Conservatory and Arno Babajanyan Musical Pedagogical College. He is currently a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zürich Opera House. His performances include Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma in 2023, and Puccini’s Tosca, 2022–23, at the Zürich Opera House, and the world premiere of Mansurian’s Hymnus in Brno, in 2022. He has performed in concerts in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Poland, Russia, Belgium, and Switzerland. In 2023, he won second prize in the Queen Sonja Singing Competition.

born in 1995

baritone

Armenian

Pianist: Outi Nissi

Repertoire

Preliminary round

G.F. Handel

The Messiah: “Why do the nations so furiously rage together”

E. Grieg

Ein Traum (Bodenstedt) 

P. I. Tchaikovsky

Podvig (Homjakov) 

G. Rossini

Il barbiere di Siviglia: “Largo al factotum” (Figaro)

Semifinals

J. Sibelius

Kom nu hit, död (Shakespeare/Hagberg) 

J. Brahms

Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone: 

Wie soll ich die Freude  

Ruhe, Süssliebchen 

Muss es eine Trennung geben 

S. Rachmaninov

Hristos voskres (Merežkovski)

P. I. Tchaikovsky

Pikovaja dama (Pique Dame): “Ya vas lyublyu” (Yeletsky) 

Final

P. I. Tchaikovsky

Iolanta: “Kto možet” (Robert) 

G. Bizet

Les pêcheurs de perles: “L’orage s’est calmé…O Nadir,
tendre ami” (Zurga)
 

Competition performances

Final

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