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Sa voix chaude
et émouvante
et l'esprit de ses

personnages m'ont
remplit dune telle

emotion queje ne
pouvais pas retenir

mes larmes!
Montserrat

Caballé

Her name might seem familiar, I would like to start with your childhood. How did you go to a music
school?
or perhaps you have seen her
It happened very naturally. My father is People's Artist of Armenia; he
walking in Geneva. Ms Khacha- was an opera singer. Since my childhood I used to listen to him sing-
tryan has become a "Genevoise" ing and also repeating all the melodies after him. Since childhood, it was
obvious that I had a good ear and my parents decided to send me to the
and has become active in the mu-
"children's voices protection" school. This is a special school in Armenia.
sic environment here in Geneva. Since childhood I was singing solo in the choir. For me, it was obvious
that I would sing.
Together with her friends, she has set up
an association which promotes classical So you had no choice.
music and in particular opera. They have Yes, you could say that. At age 14, it was an exception that I went to music
even managed to create an orchestra, so school at the vocal faculty. According to the rules, the vocal faculty does
one can only be impressed by their ac- not accept students until age 18, because the voice can mutate by then.
tivities, and hard work. On 3' Decem- After college, I entered the conservatory then postgraduate studies and
ber, she performed in the Victoria Hall finally the opera theatre.
together with the orchestra conducted
by Sergey Ostrovsky. We had a chance Do you remember your first big performance? Did you have stage
to meet with her, in the UN, so now we fright or excitement?
leave the floor to our "Diva", Ms Varduhi I know this feeling. I got used from childhood to the scene and since child-
Khachatryan. hood I have appeared on stage, so I did not have fear and anxiety until I went

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