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Constantine Orbelian South American Tour With Jonathan Tetelman

News | 23 Aug 2025

Constantine Orbelian and Chilean-American tenor Jonathan Tetelman go on tour in South America! Tour information: CONCERT: TEATRO MUNICIPAL DE LIMA American tenor Jonathan Tetelman performs with the Lima Municipal Theater Orchestra under the direction of Constantine Orbelian. He will offer a program of arias from the romantic and verismo repertoire of Italian opera. CONCERT: TEATRO… Continue reading Constantine Orbelian South American Tour With Jonathan Tetelman

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Watch the closing concert with the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra!

News | 19 Aug 2025

Constantine Orbelian led the Kaunas City Symphony in their closing concert with soloists Gabriele Bukinė (soprano), George Gagnidze, and Arsen Soghomonyan (tenor), and the Kaunas State Choir. The entire concert is available for streaming on LRT TV!

OperaWire Interviews Constantine Orbelian

News | 1 Aug 2025

OperaWire‘s Francisco Salazar interviews Constantine Orbelian on the New York City Opera, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and upcoming recordings: “Now under the leadership of Orbelian, a conductor with years of experience leading many of the greatest stars in the world, from Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Renee Fleming, to Asmik Grigorian, Kristine Opolais, and Stephen Costello,… Continue reading OperaWire Interviews Constantine Orbelian

Liparit Avetisyan’s Beloved Arias Is Available Now

News | 24 Jun 2025

Acknowledged as one of the most exciting lyric tenors of his generation, Liparit Avetisyan releases his first solo album on Delos: a crowd-pleasing programme of celebrated arias which the Armenian has performed in major opera houses including the Royal Opera House, Wiener Staatsoper, Zürich Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Seattle Opera, and Teatro Colón. Accompanied… Continue reading Liparit Avetisyan’s Beloved Arias Is Available Now

Opera Goes to Hollywood

News | 29 May 2025

Get ready for an unforgettable night when the power of opera meets the magic of the silver screen – all under the night sky in Bryant Park. Stars of the New York City Opera stage, accompanied by the City Opera Orchestra led by Maestro Constantine Orbelian and Maestro Stefano Vignati, recreate your favorite operatic movie… Continue reading Opera Goes to Hollywood

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Maestro Constantine Orbelian Appointed as the New Music Director of the Israel Sinfonietta Beer-Sheva

News | 14 May 2025

The Israel Sinfonietta Beer-Sheva Orchestra announces that the current Music Director, Maestro Rani Calderon, will conclude his tenure at the end of the upcoming season (August 2025). He will be succeeded by Four-time GRAMMY® Award Nominated conductor Maestro Constantine Orbelian- one of the most prominent conductors and pianists on the international stage, with a longstanding love for… Continue reading Maestro Constantine Orbelian Appointed as the New Music Director of the Israel Sinfonietta Beer-Sheva

Constantine Orbelian Leads the New York City Opera in “Music of Survival” at Carnegie Hall

News | 8 Feb 2025

Celebrate survival and perseverance through the universal language of music. The program begins with rarely heard gems from Holocaust survivors Mieczysław Weinberg and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, written in the wake of all they endured: Weinberg’s Suite from The Last Inch, the New York premiere of Weinberg’s Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 52, and Korngold’s Cello Concerto in C Major. After intermission, the… Continue reading Constantine Orbelian Leads the New York City Opera in “Music of Survival” at Carnegie Hall

Diamond Recognition for Noble Renegades

News | 8 Feb 2025

Opéra Magazine has given Constantine Orbelian, Kaunas City Symphony, and Charles Castronovo’s Noble Renegades recording their “Diamant” (Diamond) distinction. “Cette noblesse, qu’annonce le titre du disque, est également perceptible dans le chant idéalement stylé d’un interprète qui sait parfaitement doser ses élans et ses moments d’introspection. Mélancolie, émotion, fureur, vaillance sont bien présentes, sans que… Continue reading Diamond Recognition for Noble Renegades