1. Hasmik Papian was awarded the People's Artist of Armenia title in 2004.
12 Facts About Hasmik Papian
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Hasmik Papian was born in Yerevan, Armenia on 2 September 1957.
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Hasmik Papian first developed an interest in music when she started playing the violin at the age of 5.
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Hasmik Papian graduated from Komitas High Academy in Yerevan first as a violinist, then as a singer.
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Hasmik Papian's friends had encouraged her to explore her voice, and Tatevik Sazandaryan, the head of the vocal department at Komitas, had told Papian after hearing a couple of notes from her that she had to sing.
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Hasmik Papian had included Norma in her stock of plays, though hadn't expected to sing it due to her youth and inexperience.
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Hasmik Papian accepted a last-minute offer to sing Norma at the Teatr Wielki, although she had never sung the opera live before, and prepared in five days' notice, two brief rehearsal days, and a single orchestra rehearsal.
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Hasmik Papian sang Norma for the first time on in Warsaw in 1993, where Giancarlo del Monaco, son of Mario Del Monaco, caught her performance and offered her a contract with the Opera Bonn in Germany.
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Hasmik Papian sang Tosca for the first time at the Vienna State Opera in 1995.
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Hasmik Papian has appeared in most European countries, in Israel, Lebanon, Japan, Latin America, as well as Canada and the United States where she is invited regularly.
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Hasmik Papian is very active promoting the music of fellow Armenian composers such as Komitas Vardapet, Yeranian, Kanatchian, Tchoukhadjian, Tigranian, Avet Terterian and Tigran Mansurian in her recitals.
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Hasmik Papian was honored in 2004 with the title of the "People's Artist" of the Republic of Armenia and had received the Order of Saint Mesrop Mashtots from Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia Aram I In 2005, Papian was awarded the Order of Saint Sahag and Saint Mesrob from the hands of Catholicos Karekin II of Armenia at the Holy Mother See of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Echmiadzin, for her role as a "cultural ambassador of Armenia throughout the world".