Vahan Mirakian

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Opera Star Vahan Mirakian About Vahan Mirakian & The Foundation Vahan Mirakian, born in Armenia, belongs to the excelling tenor singers of our period. His reputation covers a lot of countries where he performs diverse opera parts and a broad repertory of songs and folk-songs. p>

Already as a pupil the young tenor sung in concerts of amateurs. As he also was a member of the Armenian junior basketball-team, he had to choose: He chose the music instead of sports and entered the Jerewan conservatory where Tamara Shakhnazarian became his first teacher. In his third year of studies he gave his debut at the Spendiarow opera house in Yerevan, Armenia. Having finished his studies he was invited to enter the ensemble of the opera house and sang in his first season, the parts of Lensky in “Eugen Onegin”, the Duke in “Rigoletto” and Alfredo in “La Traviata”. Other figures he performed are “Lucia di Lammermoor”, “La Boheme”, “Carmen” and “Tosca”. Three years working with Maestro Barra in Milano was very successful. The young singer had now the possibility to learn the fine nuances of Italian belcanto by studying parts like Cavaradossi (“Tosca”) and Rodolfo (“La Boheme”) at the Teatro Alla Scala. At the same time Mirakian studied a huge repertory of songs which he performed for the first time in Milano and in the hall “G. Verdi” in Parma. Immediately after his studies Mrakian got a contract with the Bolschoi-Theater in Moscow, Russia where he performed the grand parts of the lyric Russian and the Italian repertory until his immigration in 1981. Vahan Mirakian, during his long artistic like, has fascinated listeners all over the world. Not only with his perfect cantilena and his fine phrasing and nuances of his grand voice, but also with his vast reparatory reaching from songs by Schubert and Schumann over the romances by Tshaikovsky and Rachmaninov until the Russian and Armenian folk-songs. He has sung in each big city in Russia, the United States, Canada, Sweden, England, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechia, Hungary, Japan, South Africa, Near East and also became a welcomed guest in different famous opera houses around the world. Mirakian now lives in Los Angeles, CA in the United States where he applies to the education of young singers in single lessons, workshops and masterclasses. Take advantage of this opportunity if you are in the Los Angeles area to take lessons with the a true maestro. Click here to contact us for lessons and our rates! About the Vahan Mirakian Foundation p>

The mission of our foundation is to provide help for the development and the growth of our culture; to help young talents to get the necessary training and education by awarding scholarships and other forms of financial aid; provide the right training to help them gain recognition in all kinds of art forms. Our mission statement: One Dollar for the sake of the Arts! p>

We hope that this foundation will help us bring together all those wonderful individuals who have the love, passion and appreciation for the arts. The foundation has also established a vocal arts and classical music academy where students will have a chance to work and get personal attention and training from the Master of Bel Canto Maestro Vahan Mirakian himself. Маэстро Ваган Миракян вокал учитель телеканала MAKSTV , Если Вы хотите получить уроки контактная информация vahanm@vahanmirakian.com Phone 818-653-6143 http://www.vahanmirakian.com/