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Gohar Mikayeli Gasparyan (14 December 1924 – 16 May 2007, née Khachaturian), also known as the "Armenian nightingale", was an Armenian opera singer.

Life

Born in an Armenian family in Cairo, Egypt, Gasparyan studied at a Music Academy in the city. In 1948, she migrated to Soviet Armenia along with thousands of other Armenians from the Middle East. Gasparyan performed at the Yerevan Opera Theatre in 23 operas during her long career, as well as performing at concerts. In 1951 she was the soprano in A Heroine by Haro Stepanian [hy] in Yerevan. This opera won one of "Stalin's music prizes".

She also taught at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory. Gasparyan was a People's Artist of the USSR, a Hero of Socialist Labour and a Mesrop Mashtots order-bearer.

Gohar Gasparyan died in Yerevan and is buried at Komitas Pantheon.

Awards

• Hero of Socialist Labour
• Order of Lenin
• Order of Friendship of Peoples
• Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots
• People's Artist of the USSR
• USSR State Prize
• People's Artist of the Armenian SSR

See also

• Armenian opera

Notes

1. • Armenian: Գոհար Միքայելի Գասպարյան, romanized: Gohar Mik’ayeli Gasparyan
   • Western Armenian: Գոհար Գասպարեան, romanized: Kohar Kasbarean
2. • Armenian: Խաչատուրյան, romanized: Xačatowryan
   • Western Armenian: Խաչատրեան, romanized: Khachʻadrean

References

1. Rouben Paul Adalian Historical Dictionary of Armenia 2010 Page 454 "The soprano Gohar Gasparian (1924–2007) monopolized the opera house in Yerevan, and Lusine Zakaryan (1937–92) performed a wide range of Armenian music including concertized sacred music.
2. Marina Frolova-Walker (2016). Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics. Yale University Press. pp. 325–. ISBN 978-0-300-20884-9.
3. Gasparyan's memorial tombstone at Komitas Pantheon

• Davt'yan, R. G.: Hayots' sokhake: Gohar Gasparyan. Vol. 1. Erevan 2008. ISBN 978-99941-42-87-3 (in Armenian)

External links

• Gohar Gasparyan - Armenian National Music
• Gohar Gasparyan died, PanArmenian.Net
  • Gohar Gasparyan singing Anush on YouTube

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• 1924 births
• 2007 deaths
• Musicians from Cairo
• 20th-century Armenian women opera singers
• Armenian operatic sopranos
• People's Artists of the USSR
• Egyptian people of Armenian descent
• Egyptian emigrants to the Soviet Union
• Burials at the Komitas Pantheon