Iveta Simonyan

Iveta Simonyan is a soloist of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre opera troupe.
She was born in Novosibirsk. She graduated from F. Murov Novosibirsk Music College  (the class of Aigul Beralinova) and the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (the class of the People's Artist of Russia, Professor Olga Kondina).
Iveta participated in master classes by Dmitry Vdovin, Tamara Novichenko, Mario Diaz, and Teodor Currentzis. She is the winner of Russian and international competitions, including the VIII New Opera World International Opera Competition (diploma, Moscow, 2020), the Opera Bella International Music Festival and Competition (special prize of the Chairman of the Jury, Moscow, 2021), the XXXV Sobinov Music Festival Vocal Competition (II Prize, Saratov, 2022), and the All-Russian Review Vocal Competition (Saint Petersburg, 2024).
In 2023, she made her debut in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute as the Queen of the Night on the stage of the St Petersburg Music Hall Theatre. Since the 2023/2024 season, she has been a soloist of the opera troupe at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2024, as a member of the opera troupe at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, she took part in the First Far East Easter Festival. She has collaborated with such conductors as Philipp Chizhevsky, Fabio Mastrangelo, Dmitry Matvienko, Yuri Kochnev, and Ivan Khudyakov-Vedenyapin.
Her repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theater includes the parts of the Queen of the Night (Mozart's The Magic Flute), Gilda (Verdi's Rigoletto), Voices from Heaven (Verdi's Don Carlos), Frasquita (Bizet's Carmen), Norina (Donizetti's Don Pasquale), Marfa (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride), Ninetta (Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges), and Brigitte (Tchaikovsky's Iolanta).