Arsen Soghomonyan is a soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre. He was born in 1983 and studied at the Barkhudaryan Music School in Yerevan (under L. Ter-Oganesyan). He then enrolled at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory under professor Rafael Akopyants. By his third year in the conservatory he was already performing as a soloist for the Spendiarov Armenian State Theatre of Opera and Ballet. He performed the roles of Giorgio Germont (in Verdi's La traviata) and Sharpless (in Puccini's Madama Butterfly). During 2009 he interned in Italy. He has garnered the Armenian State Award, and he has won awards in nine international vocal competitions, among them: the Romanciada International Art Song Competition (2001), first prize; the Pavel Lisitsian International Baritone Competition (2003), third prize; the Stanislaw Moniuszko Vocal Competition in Warsaw (2004), third prize and audience favourite award; the Unisa Voice Competition in South Africa (2006); and the Raina Kabaivanska Master Class and Competition in Sofia (2009). He has performed on tour in Spain, France, the UK, China, the Republic of South Africa, and also in many Russian cities. For the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre he has sung Figaro (in Rossini's Il barbiere di Seviglia), Belcore (in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore), Giorgio Germont (in Verdi's La traviata), Prince Yeletsky (in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades), Napoleon (in Prokofiev's War and Peace), Count Danilo Danilovitch (in Lehar's Die lustige Witwe), and Taddeo (in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri). He also performs there in the Evening of Classical Operetta show.
