Mané Galoyan

Armenian soprano Mané Galoyan won the 2021 Operalia second prize, Zarzuela Prize, and the Rolex Audience Prize. In the 2025-26 season, she returns to the Metropolitan Opera to sing Musetta in Franco Zeffirelli's production of La bohème, sings 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.

Galoyan made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Prilepa/Chlöe in Pique Dame conducted by Vasily Petrenko. In previous seasons she has sung Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Vienna State Opera, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with the Canadian Opera Company, Violetta in La traviata at Santa Fe Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Suor Angelica at the Bavarian State Opera, the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen with Detroit Opera, the title role in Luisa Miller at Oper Köln and the Glyndebourne Festival, Adina at Paris Opéra and the Zurich Opera, and Berthe in Le prophète at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. As a studio artist at Houston Grand Opera, she performed Violetta, Gilda, Avis in The Wreckers, and Adina. As a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, she has appeared as Pamina, Violetta, Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims, and Garsenda in Francesca da Rimini.

On the concert stage, Galoyan has performed Rachmaninoff's The Bells with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, and has appeared with many of the leading orchestras of North America and Europe, including the Hallé Orchestra at the BBC Proms. Her symphonic repertoire includes Mahler's symphonies nos. 2 and 4.

She is a laureate of numerous international competitions, including the Eleanor McCollum Competition and Concert of Arias, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition.

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.