Mané Galoyan

Armenian soprano Mané Galoyan won the 2021 Operalia Second Prize, Zarzuela Prize and the Rolex Audience Prize. In the 2025-2026 season, she returns to the Metropolitan Opera to sing Musetta in Franco Zeffirelli’s legendary production of La bohème, Violetta in La traviata with the Atlanta Opera, Soléa in Penella’s El gato montés with the Teatro de la Zarzuela, Suor Angelica and Lauretta in Il Trittico with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Houston Grand Opera, and the title role in a concert performance of Iolanta with Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie. In the 2024-2025 season, Galoyan debuted at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Gilda in Rigoletto, debuted Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito at Opéra de Monte Carlo, performed Liù in Turandot in a new production by Christof Loy at Theater Basel and in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, and returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Adina in L’elisir d’Amore. 

In previous seasons, Galoyan debuted the roles of Suor Angelica and Lauretta in a new production of Il Trittico with Donald Runnicles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and sang Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with the Wiener Staatsoper, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with the Canadian Opera Company, Violetta in La traviata with Santa Fe Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Suor Angelica with the Bayerische Staatsoper, and the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen with Detroit Opera. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Prilepa/Chlöe in Pique Dame conducted by Vasily Petrenko. As a studio member of Houston Grand Opera, she performed Violetta, Gilda, Avis in The Wreckers and Adina. She has also played Violetta with Dutch National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival on tour, and Seattle Opera. Additionally, she sang the title role in Luisa Miller with Oper Köln and Glyndebourne Festival, Berthe in Le prophète with Aix-en-Provence Festival, released as a recording with the London Symphony Orchestra, Adina at Paris Opéra and the Zürich Opernhaus, and Donna Anna with the Atlanta Opera. As a member of the Ensemble of Deutsche Oper Berlin, she has appeared as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Violetta in La Traviata, Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims, and Garsenda in Francesca da Rimini.

Symphonic engagements include Rachmaninoff’s The Bells the LA Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel, with James Gaffigan and the Dallas Symphony, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the Houston Symphony, the Hallé Orchestra at the BBC Proms, and the Bard Festival. Galoyan also performed select Russian song repertoire with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall, Walter in La Wally with the Munich Radio Orchestra, a concert with Plácido Domingo and the Sinfonietta de Lisboa, a gala concert with the Detroit Opera Orchestra, a concert of arias with the Prague Symphony Orchestra and Plácido Domingo in Bad Hofgastein, Austria, Taneyev’s cantata with the American Symphony Orchestra, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Seattle Symphony and Aspen Music Festival, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G with the San Antonio Symphony. Other concert performances have included Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Schubert’s Mass in G and Mass in C, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, all with the Armenian National Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Fauré Requiem with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Galoyan is a winner of numerous international competitions, including First Prize in the 27th Eleanor McCollum Competition and Concert of Arias with Houston Grand Opera, Third Prize in the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, Fourth Prize in the 6th International Vocal Competition China in Ningbo, Third Prize in the 2017 Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, a 2014 prize in the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition, and first prize in the Bibigul Tulegenova International Singing Competition in Kazakhstan.

Galoyan holds two degrees from the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory in Armenia, where she was named the 2013 winner of the President of the Republic of Armenia Youth Prize. She is married to conductor Roberto Kalb and resides in Detroit, Michigan.