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Armenian soprano Juliana Grigoryan

Armenian soprano Juliana Grigoryan. Won the 1st Prize in the 2022 edition of the great Operalia lyrical competition.

This year’s final of the founding competition and directed by Placido Domingo took place in Riga
in Latvia.

Juliana Grigoryan also won The audience award. Juliana Grigoryan is trained in Yerevan. Winner of the grand prize of the contest international singing Stanislaw Moniuszko (Warsaw).

This year it performed at the Scala de Milan in Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka and the role of Mimi for La Bohemia by Giacomo Puccini at Ravenne Festival.

by Armenians And Armenia

Juliana Grigoryan – Madama Butterfly: Un Bel Di Vedremo (Puccini)

Vigen Avetisyan

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