About
Margarita Parsamyan is a native of Armenia, currently living in Miami, Florida. Ms. Parsamyan has been praised for her “dusky timbre”, “dramatic projection” and for “poignantly carrying a great deal of drama” by Opera Wire and South Florida Classical Review.
Ms. Parsamyan is very excited for her 2023-2024 performance season as she will join Sarasota Opera as an Apprentice Artist. Her previous 2022-2023 performance season engagements included the roles of La Contessa in Frost Opera Theater’s Le nozze di Figaro and Delia in Stone Soup with Florida Grand Opera (outreach). She will perform the roles of Micaëla in La Tragédie de Carmen and Maria in La Tempranica in Frost Opera Theater’s Scenes Concert. In summer 2022, Ms. Parsamyan was invited to perform in two new operatic works at Virginia Arts Festival/John Duffy Institute for New Opera. She appeared in the leading role of Concetta together with Metropolitan Opera stars Kim Josephson, Robynne Redmon and Kevin Short in the World Premiere of The Leopard by Michael Dellaira with libretto by J. D. McClatchy with Frost Opera Theater under the baton of Gerard Schwarz. She made her debut at Music on Site as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte by Mozart.
During the 2021-2022 performing season, Ms. Parsamyan appeared as Manon in Massenet’s Manon with Frost Opera Theater. She has performed in various opera productions at OU Opera Theater, most notably as La chauve-souris in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges. She performed the role of Fleta in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe at Cimarron Opera. In summer 2021, she made her debut at Chicago Summer Opera as Sandmann in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel
In addition to performing operatic repertoire, she had several solo recitals which went beyond the traditional classical repertoire and included Russian Romance and Armenian classical and folk songs. Her goal as an artist is to introduce Armenian cultural and musical heritage to a wider audience.
Her most recent achievements include The Laffont Metropolitan Opera Competition Qualified District, the Finalist Prize in Tampa Bay Symphony Jack Heller Young Artist Competition, the First Prize at Great Composers Competition, the Semi-finalist in CS International Vocal Competition and the Second Prize at TEXOMA NATS Competition. She was awarded the prestigious AGBU Performing Arts Scholarship, AIWA, ASA, Davis and the Zelby Family Endowed merit and performing arts scholarships.
