Nominations have been released for the prestigious 18th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards with the soloist of the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet Liparit Avetisyan nominated for the Breakthrough Artist in UK Opera category. As Panorama.am learn from a Facebook post of the theatre, Avetisyan is nominated for his performance as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore. 

WhatsOnStage Awards are only major UK theatre awards in which audience vote for the artisits and performances. According to the source, this year’s voting will close at 23:59 on 29 December. The results will be announced on 2 January 2018, while the winners of the awards will be announced at a ceremony at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 25 February 2018. 

Voting for the winners of the 18th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards is available online .

To note, Armenian tenor Liparit Avetisyan made his Royal Opera debut in the 2016/17 Season as Alfredo Germont (La traviata) and returned later that Season to sing Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore).

Throughout his career, Avetisyan has sung at the XXI International Music Festival Stars of the White Nights in Saint Petersburg, Moscow Easter Festival, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland, MustonenFest in Estonia and Midem Festival in France. He regularly appears in recital at St John’s Smith Square, and performed in benefit concerts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide with Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall and the Music Center at Strathmore.