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    Emil Lazarian
  • 5 years ago
    • Categories: 2020

Music: Armenian soprano will perform at Dresden Semper Opera Ball after all

PanArmenian, Armenia
Jan 24 2020
– 12:50 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian soprano Ruzan Mantashyan will perform at The Semper Opera Ball, a classical entertainment event in Dresden, Germany, after all.

The Armenian artist’s participation was in question following an international scandal involving Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov who reportedly had the organizers of the event to force out Mantashyan with whom he was scheduled to perform.

Mantashyan was invited to sing at The Semper Opera Ball alongside an American tenor. However, as the latter dropped out in the process, the opera house replaced him with Eyvazov. After realizing Mantashyan’s ethnicity, the Azerbaijani tenor reportedly refused to perform.

The organizers of the event first rejected the accusations, claiming that at no time had there been a contract with Mantashyan.

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/277254/Armenian_soprano_will_perform_at_Dresden_Semper_Opera_Ball_after_all

But the artist confirmed in a on Thursday, January 23 that she will sing Tatiana's Aria from Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin” opera.

The Semperoper Dresden is preparing for its annual ball, which is set to take place on February 7.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS