Baritone Navasard Hakobyan wins Dallas Opera’s National Vocal Competition

The Dallas Opera has announced the winners of the National Vocal Competition, with baritone Navasard Hakobyan taking first place.

Navasard Hakobyan is a Butler Studio Artist at the Houston Grand Opera. He won his first prize in the 2022 Eleanor McCollum Competition. He performed with the Houston Grand Opera in Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, The Marriage of Figaro, and many others.

In 2018, Hakobyan joined the young artists program of the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Yerevan.