WORLD FAMOUS 83-YEAR-OLD OPERA SINGER GOHAR GASPARYAN DIED IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.05.2007 12:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ World famous Armenian opera singer, USSR and Armenian
national singer, professor of the Yerevan Conservatory 83-year-old
Gohar Gasparyan died in Yerevan May 16, the PanARMENIAN.Net was told
in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Culture. Still there is no news
about the cause of Gohar Gasparyan’s death.

However the singer, who had suffered from a cerebral stroke several
years ago, was in the reanimation department of "Nairi" Medical Center
during the recent days.

The "Armenian nightingale"- as Gohar Gasparyan was called – was born in
1924 in Cairo. She had studied in the local musical academy. Gasparyan
moved to Armenia in 1948. Beginning from 1949 she had sung title parts
of 23 opera performances in the Opera and Ballet Academic Theater of
Armenia. And generally her repertoire included more than 500 musical
compositions.