Gevorg Hakobyan is a rising star on the international operatic stage. His deep, resonant voice brings drama and colour to every aria on this album. Three unusual selections in Armenian – including Mosi’s Aria from Anoush, the most important opera in the Armenian language – enhance this debut recording. Drawing from favorite operas such as Verdi’s Otello and Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Arias of Love & Sorrow joins recent Delos releases including Oksana Dyka’s In Questa Reggia, Oksana Volkova’s Poison D’Amour and Kristian Benedikt’s Tenore di forza in bringing new and captivating voices to fans of opera.
Works:
•Borodin: Prince Igor
•Giordano, U: Nemico della patria (from Andrea Chénier)
•Khoja-Eynatyan: Arshak II
•Puccini: Nulla! Silenzio (from Il Tabarro)
•Rachmaninov: Aleko
•Rimsky Korsakov: Ne tot teper ya stal… Kuda ty, udal prezhnyaya, devalas (from The Tsar's Bride)
•Tchaikovsky: Odnazhdy v Versale (from The Queen of Spades)
•Tigranian, A: Anoush
•Tigranian, A: David Bek
•Verdi: Ah, prigioniero io sono...Dio di Giuda! (from Nabucco)
•Verdi: Alzati…Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima (from Un Ballo in Maschera)
•Verdi: Vanne, la tua meta gia vedo…Credo in un Dio crudel (from Otello)