Cover Award helps open door for Covent Garden debut
Posted on 25 July 2017
Cover Award helps open door for Covent Garden debut
Last year Armenian tenor Liparit Avetisyan was awarded the 2016-17 Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation (UK) Cover Award. Sponsored by the UK Foundation in association with The Royal Opera House the award allows selected artists to take on cover roles where ROH might not normally have a cover in place. The award enabled Liparit Avetisyan to cover the role of Alfredo in the ROH production of La traviata. His successful performance in that role led to the offer to take up the role of Nemorino in the Covent Garden Laurent Pelly production of L’elisir d’amore.Liparit was beaming from ear to ear after his debut and ROH were obviously impressed with Peter Katona (Head of Casting) commenting “Liparit Avetisyan’s debut was an extraordinary moment, and will surely be remembered as the beginning of a major career. The precious, warm and beautiful quality of the timbre, his natural musicality and acting talent make him one in a thousand, and no praise would be too high. If there is anything to go by, this promises a great future , and we are lucky and happy that there was a chance to see him on this stage at this incredibly early moment. His performance was deeply moving, in a way that one experiences very rarely.”