Aline kutan soprano biography

Soprano Aline Kutan has established herself as a versatile and refined artist in both opera and concert.
Canadian Armenian soprano Aline Kutan has established herself as a versatile and refined artist in both opera and concert.
Canadian soprano Aline Kutan is one of today's most accomplished and versatile artists.

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A winner of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera competition, MSO Voice competition and the Canadian Opera Company Mozart competition, she is also prizewinner of numerous bursaries including the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada- Joseph Rouleau prize, and prizes from the Vancouver Operatic Society, Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation as well as the George London Foundation (New York). Ms. Kutan has regularly performed opera in concert and oratorios with orchestras. She has performed the Angel in Messiaen’s St. Francis of Assisi with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano (Canadian premiere), Carmina Burana, Mahler’s 8th symphony, and Stravinsky’s Rossignol and Mavra, Gliere’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortilèges with Charles Dutoit.

With the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, she sang the Fire in l’Enfant et les Sortilèges. Oratorio performances include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, 9th Symphony and Christus am Ölberge, Mozart’s Requiem and the C minor Mass, Rossini’s Petite messe Solennel

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Aline Kutan

Canadian coloratura soprano Aline Kutan has been enjoying much success on international stages of the world. In the last few years, she made her debuts at the Glyndebourne Festival with the role of the Queen of the Night and at La Scala singing the role of Semele in a performance of Salieri’s Europa Riconosciuta conducted by Muti. At Opéra de Bordeaux, she created the role of Pasiphaé in Philippe Fénelon’s contemporary opera Les Rois and sang The Magic Flute at the Opéra National de Paris. She appeared in Carmina Burana at the Festival International des Chorégies d’Orange and the Orchestre symphonique de Toulouse in France. She recently sang the title role of Lakmé at l'Opera de Montréal to rave reviews and ovations by the public. She has also performed the role at Arizona Opera, Michigan Opera, l’Opéra d’Avignon, l’Opéra de Toulon as well as the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in Germany. Other roles include: Konstanze in Entführung aus dem Serail (l’Opéra de Québec, Vancouver Opera); Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos (l’Opéra de Montréal, San Carlo di Napoli, Capito

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