Navasard Hakobyan

Navasard Hakobyan was the winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition 2024, The Dallas Opera’s National Vocal Competition 2024, 3rd Prize Winner and winner of the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize of Zarzuela at the 2023 Operalia World Opera Competition. Besides his recent accomplishments on the competition stage, Navasard is a current studio member at Houston Grand Opera. This 2024/25 season, as a young artist at Houston Grand Opera, Navasard will sing Schaunard La bohème and cover the role of Wolfram von Eschenbach Tannhäuser. He will make his house debut at Dresden Semperoper for multiple performances as Marcello La bohème. On the concert platform, Navasard will sing Brahm’s Requiem with Santa Barbara Symphony and Escamillo in a concert performance of Carmen with Corpus Christ