Ruzan Mantashyan

With her acclaimed voice, musicality and stage presence, Armenian-born soprano Ruzan Mantashyan is regarded as one of the most promising singers of her generation. 

She began studying piano at the Komitas Conservatoire in Yerevan at the age of seven. A few years later, she started voice lessons at the same institution with Valey Harutyunov. She continued her training at Mirella Freni’s Accademia di Belcanto in Modena and with Hedwig Fassbender at the Frankfurt Conservatoire, graduating with a master’s degree in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, she was a member of the Atelier lyrique at the Opéra national de Paris. 

Mantashyan was a finalist in the Francisco Viñas International Singing Contest in Barcelona, where she received the competition’s Special Prize. She also won the Toti dal Monte competition as Musetta in La bohème, a role she later performed in Treviso, Bolzano, Fermo and Ferrara. 

Her roles include Micaëla in Carmen in Montpellier and Hamburg; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte in Paris-Créteil, Lille, Munich, Hamburg, Seoul, Zurich and at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Natasha Rostova in War and Peace in Geneva; and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin in Hamburg, Liège, Berlin and Vienna. She has also sung Marguerite in Faust in Geneva; Mimì in Geneva, Zurich, London, Berlin, Tokyo, Natori, Kyoto and Munich; the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro in Amsterdam and Hamburg; the title role in Rusalka in Limoges; Alice Ford in Falstaff at the Komische Oper Berlin; and Rachel in La Juive at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. 

Recently, she has sung Donna Elvira at Glyndebourne and in Zurich, the title role in Cendrillon in Lausanne, and Violetta in La traviata in Geneva. 

Her plans for the 2025/26 season and the seasons that follow include Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Alice Ford in Falstaff at the Vienna State Opera; Tatyana at the Opéra national de Paris and the Grange Festival; Violetta in Montpellier; the title role in Rusalka in Toulouse; and Desdemona in a production yet to be announced. 

Ruzan Mantashyan speaks Armenian, Russian, English, French, Italian and German.