Vartuhi Sarkisyan

Vartuhi Sarkis Sarkisyan built her career in Plovdiv, where the Bulgarian press called her an operatic prima and where the opera company was her professional home. Bulgarian, of Armenian descent, she travelled with the Plovdiv and Stara Zagora companies on their United States tours between 2003 and 2005, singing in Cleveland, Sioux Falls, Appleton and East Lansing among other cities. She died in 2022. On the Stara Zagora company's tour she sang Carmen at Prescott, Arizona, on 24 April 2005. She graduated from the State Academy of Music in Sofia in 1986 and sang with the National Radio in Sofia. Besides the Bulgarian houses she appeared in Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece and Switzerland, in a repertoire centred on Il trovatore, La traviata, Rigoletto, Aida, Otello, Don Carlos, Carmen and Lucia di Lammermoor.