Lianna Haroutounian

In the 2024/25 season, Haroutounian headlines the San Francisco Opera’s season opening with Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera (Amelia), in a new production by Leo Muscato and conducted by Eun Sun Kim. This season will also see a series of exciting role debuts including Isolde in Wagner Tristan und Isolde (Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège) and the title role in Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos (Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla). Haroutounian will also reprise her signature roles of Puccini Tosca at Seattle Opera, and Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. On the concert platform, she returns to La Monnaie in Brussels to sing the Verdi Requiem under the baton of Alain Altinoglu.

Recent operatic engagements include her critically acclaimed role debuts of Lisa (Tchaikovsky Pique Dame) in Barcelona and the title role in Ponchielli La Gioconda in Napoli. Other highlights include Madama Butterfly at Teatro Real Madrid, the Wiener Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, SF Opera, Seattle Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, and the Royal Opera House, Fedora at Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Il tabarro & Suor Angelica at La Monnaie and Elisabeth de Valois (Don Carlos) for the MET, the Opernhaus Zurich, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Royal Opera House and the Staatsoper Berlin, Leonora (Il trovatore) at Teatro Real and the Royal Opera House, Iolanta at Palau de les Arts Valencia, Desdemona (Otello) at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Real and Teatro Verdi di Trieste.

Haroutounian has worked with conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Nicola Luisotti, Giampaolo Bisanti, Fabio Luisi, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, James Levine, Riccardo Frizza or Evelino Pidò. She has also worked with stage directors such as David Alden, Tobias Kratzer, Damiano Michieletto, Alvis Hermanis, Adele Thomas, Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier.

2024/25 season / 343 words. Not to be altered without permission.