(Credit: Asmik Grigorian Website)

Asmik Grigorian has been named the 2024 Austrian Music Theater Prize winner.

The soprano will receive the “Grand Jury Prize” on Sept. 1, 2024 for “emotional depth, technical brilliance and fascinating stage presence.”

In a statement, Karl-Michael Ebner, initiator and president of the Austrian Music Theater Prize said, “Asmik Grigorian’s unparalleled career and her enormous contribution to the opera world have had a lasting impact on musical theater. It is therefore only fitting that she should be awarded the ‘Grand Jury Prize’ – an award that does justice to her impressive career.”

Over the past year, Grigroian has performed in many major theaters including the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Salzburg Festival, where she has become the festival’s primadonna.

Recent prize winners include Piotr Beczala, Jonas Kaufmann, Elina Garanca, and Camilla Nylund.

The Austrian Music Theater Prize has been awarded since 2013 for outstanding achievements in opera, operetta, musicals and ballet.