Nuneh Badalyan, soprano Email Article in Armenian [Alik Daily] about Tehran tour in early 2012 An enthusiastic and active soloist and chamber musician, Nuneh Badalyan tours extensively with the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and has appeared in London, Canterbury Festival, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno, Geneva, Athens, Saloniki, Cyprus, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, and at the Tbilisi Opera in Georgia. She has also given recitals in Hamburg, New York, Boston, Washington and San Diego. Her solo recital debut at Rachmaninoff Hall of Moscow in 1996 coincided with her receiving the diploma of distinction at the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition in St. Petersburg. Five years later, in February, she was performing in her solo recital debut in the prestigious St. John Smith Square, London which led to a return invitation to sing a Duo Recital in September of the same year. In 2003 Ms Badalyan made her Bolshoi Theatre debut in Moscow as Adaljiza in a new production of Bellini’s Norma with the Armenian National Opera Native of Yerevan, Armenia, Nuneh Badalyan received her academic education at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory and in 1992 while still in the Conservatory she joined the Armenian National opera Theatre as soloist. She has performed the Armenia Premiere of Britten’s song cycle The Poet’s Echo and song cycles by Schoenberg, Montsalvage and Viardot. Ms Badalyan champions works by contemporary Armenian composers written especially for her among them Edward Mirzoyan, Edward Hairapetian and Vardan Ajemian. Ms Badalyan has performed as guest soloist with the Armenian Philharmonic in the Brahm’s Requie , Handel’s Messaiah and Strauss’ Last Four Songs; and with the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia in Mozart’s Requiem, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony; and she has performed Armenian premiere of Britten’s Les Illuminations. Ms Badalyan was invited to sing Britten’s War Requiem at the Canterbury Festival in the UK with Canterbury Festival Orchestra and Choir under Richard Cook. She sang Michaella with critical acclaim in a production of Carmen at Cagne-Sur-Mer in France and Oronte in the world premiere of Vivaldi’s Tigran the Great in Yerevan. She has appeared as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, Pamina in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Iolanta in Thchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Anush in Tigranian’s Anush, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly as Madama Butterfly, Leocavallo’s Pagliacci as Neda and has recorded Puccini’s ll Tabarro as Giorgietta. Ms Badalyan has performed the Armenian Premiere of Britten’s song cycle The Poet’s Echo as well as song cycles by Schoenberg, Montsalvage and Viardot.