Hibla Gerzmava and Hovhannes Ayvazyan

Hibla Gerzmava is one of the most sought-after opera singers. She has performed on the world's main opera stages: at the Covent Garden Theatre in London, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, on the stage of Milan's La Scala, the Paris National Opera, the Bavarian Opera, the Zurich Opera and others. In addition, she performs on the stages of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres. Since 1995 she has been the soloist of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre. In 2021, she became the president of the Onegin National Opera Award.

She is a People’s Artist of Russia, People’s Artist of Abkhazia, the first ever winner of the Grand Prix among vocalists at the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1994), the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for her contribution to the development of the national and world opera, multiple winner of the National Theatre Award "Golden Mask".

Hovhannes Ayvazyan is a soloist of the Armenian State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Spendiaryan and a guest soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre. Since 2013 he has been a guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia, Recipient of the Armenian Presidential Prize (2009), the laureate of the Gohar Gasparyan Pan-Armenian Solo Singing Competition (Yerevan, 2008; 1st prize), the laureate of the Tatevik Sazandaryan Republican Competition of Singers (Yerevan, 2007; 2nd prize).

He collaborates with outstanding conductors and performers, including Valery Gergiev, Maria Guleghina, Anna Netrebko, Olga Borodina.