Armenpress
GERMAN NEWSPAPER DEDICATES SPECIAL STORY TO ARMENIAN OPERA SINGER HASMIK
PAPIAN
YEREVAN, APRIL 12, ARMENPRESS: Konrad Kuhn, responsible for public
relations of world famous Armenian opera singer Hasmik Papian, told
Armenpress that a major German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung
dedicated a special portrait of Hasmik Papian on its cultural pages under
the headline “Volkskunstlerin” (People’s Artist, referring to the fact that
she was honored with this title by president Kocharian last year).
The article was written by a well-known journalist Michael Jeismann, who
is invited to hold a speech on the subject of the 90-th anniversary of the
Armenian genocide at the parliament of the federal land of Berlin) on April
24. He met Hasmik Papian in Yerevan last September on the occasion of a gala
concert.
The article describes the artistic achievements of the singer who made
her way from Yerevan to the most prestigious stages of the opera world-from
Berlin, Milan, Vienna and Paris to New York and Tokyo, as well as her role
as a musical ambassador of her native country.
He said Hasmik Papian is now in Belgium preparing to open a new
production of Puccini’s opera “Suor Angelica’ at Opera Royal de Wallonie in
Liege.