CONCERT DEDICATED TO 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF GOHAR GASPARYAN TO BE HELD DECEMBER 22

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
14.12.2009 16:29 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ December 14 People’s Artist, Yerevan State
Conservatory professor, opera singer Gohar Gasparyan would have turned
85 years.

In connection with the auspicious occasion National Academic Theater
of Opera and Ballet after Alexander Spendiaryan jointly with the
Ministry of Culture of Armenia organize the concert.

Initially scheduled for December 14, the concert was postponed until
December 22 due to health problems of several soloists.

Gohar Gasparyan, Armenian prominent singer (soprano), People’s Artist,
professor of Yerevan State Conservatory. Born in Cairo in 1924, she
studied at the conservatory there. In 1948 she moved to Armenia. She
sang at the Yerevan State Academic Opera and Ballet theater, in 1964
received the State Prize of the Armenian SSR. Since 1949, she sang
the title roles in 23 operas. Her repertoire consisted of about 500
works by Russian, French, German and Italian composers.

Gohar Gasparyan died May 16, 2007 at her 83rd year.