With her highly acclaimed vocal prowess, musicality and stagecraft, Armenian-born Ruzan Mantashyan is one of the most promising artists of her generation. She studied piano from the age of seven at the Komitas Conservatoire in Yerevan. A few years later, she began voice lessons at the same institution with Valey Harutyunov. She honed her skills at Mirella Freni’s Accademia di Belcanto in Modena, then under Hedwig Fassbender at the Frankfurt Conservatoire, graduating with a Master’s Degree in 2014. She then joined the Atelier lyrique at the Opéra national de Paris, where she remained until 2016.
She was a Finalist in the Francisco Vinas International Singing Contest in Barcelona, and won the competition’s Special Prize. She won the Toti dal Monte competition as Musetta ("La bohème") and performed this role in Treviso, Bolzano, Fermo and Ferrara.
She performed Micaëla ("Carmen") in Montpellier and Hamburg, Fiordiligi ("Così fan tutte") in Paris-Créteil, Lille, Munich, Hamburg, Seoul and Zurich, Natacha Rostova ("War and Peace") in Geneva, Tatyana ("Eugene Onegin") at the Staatsoper Hamburg, in Liège, at the Komische Oper Berlin and at the Wiener Staatsoper, Marguerite ("Faust") in Geneva, Mimì in Geneva, Zurich, at the Royal Opera House in London, at the Komische Oper Berlin, in Japan in Tokyo, Natori and Kyoto and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, La Contessa ("Le nozze di Figaro") in Amsterdam, Rusalka in Limoges, Alice Ford ("Falstaff") at the Komische Oper Berlin and Rachel ("La Juive") at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
Most recently, Ruzan Mantashyan has appeared as Donna Elvira ("Don Giovanni") at Glyndebourne and in Zurich, in the title role of "Cendrillon" in Lausanne, as Contessa ("Le nozze di Figaro") in Hamburg, as Fiordiligi and Alice Ford at the Wiener Staatsoper, as Tatyana at the Opéra national de Paris and the Grange Festival, and as Violetta in Geneva and Montpellier.
In 2026/27 she performs in the title role of "Rusalka" at the Opéra national du Capitole in Toulouse and makes her debut as Desdemona in a new production of "Otello" at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Ruzan Mantashyan speaks Armenian, Russian, English, French, Italian and German.