Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar
Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar (Mongolian: Ганбаатарын Ариунбаатар; born April 8, 1988) is a Mongolian baritone. He was born as the middle child in a family of 3 at the west of Ulaanbaatar city, where his family used to live as nomads.[1] He attended the Mongolian State University of Culture and the Arts[1] and graduated in 2010 as an opera singer.[2] He subsequently became a traffic warden in Ulaanbaatar until he joined the Buryat National Opera in Ulan-Ude, Russia, in 2014.[1][2]
Career
He won the first prize in the male vocalist category and the Grand Prix at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition.[1][2] In 2015, Ariunbaatar performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and at the Cadogan Hall in London, and he sang Yeletsky's Aria from Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades at Buckingham Palace.[3] During 2016, he performed the roles of Escamillo (Carmen) and Baron Scarpia (Tosca) at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.[3] He also performed for the 60th General Assembly of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Yerevan, Armenia.[3] He was jointly awarded the Song Prize award at the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, singing Rossini, Verdi, and Tchaikovsky, and in Mongolian.[4]
Honors
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frazier, Ian (November 16, 2015). "Prize-Winner". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar". Marinsky Theatre. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World bio. Accessed 17 July 2017.
- ↑ Molleson, Kate (2018-01-02). "How Mongolia went wild for opera". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
