Liparit Avetisyan in Eugene Onegin at the Royal Ballet and Opera, 2024 / Photo: Tristram Kenton/RBO
In the hustle and bustle of the end of the season (and the revolving-door revivals of Traviata and Turandot), Avetisyan’s successful debut flew under the radar.
Christopher Corwin, reviewing earlier this spring, was a fan:
The Armenian tenor, who was supposed to make his Met debut during the canceled 2020-21 season, channeled eager-otter energy into an Alfredo as unabashedly enamored of Violetta in the first and last acts as he was devastatingly cruel in the gambling scene. An unfortunate stab at an interpolated high C at the end of his cabaletta reportedly marred his debut the previous performance, so he wisely performed it as written for the second. His lovely tenor might be slightly small for the Met and his topmost notes required some effort, but he would certainly be welcome to return.
In the fall, Avetisyan sings some Rodolfos and Alfredos in places like Piacenza, Düsseldorf, and Berlin, and in October he’ll fall prey to the maternal magic of Angela Meade in a revival of Christof Loy’s production of Lucrezia Borgia in Munich.
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, “Kuda, kuda”
Liparit Avetisyan
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Royal Ballet and Opera
4 October 2024
Broadcast
