Opera singer Asmik Grigorian is at the peak of her career, but there’s one major opera venue she hasn’t yet performed at — New York’s Metropolitan Opera. That changes Friday when Grigorian will take the stage in the title role of “Madame Butterfly,” a role she’s earned acclaim for from fellow performers and critics alike.
In this image provided by the Met Opera , soprano Asmik Grigorian prepares for her Metropolitan Opera debut during a rehearsal for Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” In this image provided by the Met Opera , soprano Asmik Grigorian prepares for her Metropolitan Opera debut during a rehearsal for Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” In this image provided by the Met Opera , soprano Asmik Grigorian prepares for her Metropolitan Opera debut during a rehearsal for Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.
Growing up in Vilnius she had plenty of exposure to opera. Both her parents, tenor Gegam Grigorian and soprano Irena Milkeviciute, were opera singers and both appeared at the Met, where Asmik traveled with them while a young girl.
“I was too young,” she added. “Control demands experience, so of course I failed a thousand, million times and this is an amazing thing to do. I think it’s the biggest sadness of the generation now because we are so visible and people are not allowing themselves to fail anymore, and how can you develop without failing?”
Grigorian worked hard for years to build her technique and knew she had succeeded when a critic said “she is perfect technically, and it’s so boring because she is not so interesting as an actress.” Three years later when she made her debut at the Wagner shrine in Bayreuth, Germany, as Senta in “The Flying Dutchman,” Joshua Barone in The New York Times called her performance “luxuriously lyrical” and noted she was “met with a roaring ovation.”
Grigorian explains: “I like to hear a lyrical sound with very tender colors because she’s a 15-year-old girl.
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