Opera Studio
http://www.conservatory.am/operastudio/

The YSC Opera Studio was opened in 1980, thanks to the efforts of Lazar Saryan, Conservatory rector of that time.

It is situated in the Conservatory building. It has a concert hall (275 places) with orchestra pit and theatre stage. The Studio possesses its own symphony orchestra (50 players), mixed choir (40 persons) and soloists. Besides, the Studio staff includes stagers, producers, conductors, painters, costumiers, stage workers.

The main aim of the Studio is staging the operas, where the Vocal Art Departments students perform all the roles.

The Studio repertoire includes many important operatic compositions' too numerous to mention. Among them - "Cosi fan tutte" (Mozart), "Aleco" (Rakhmaninov), "Porgy and Bess" (Gershvin), "Cavalleria rusticana" (Mascagni), "Der Apotheker" (Haydn), "La donna servietta" (Pergolesi), "Il Barbiere di Seviglia" (Rossini), "Prometeus-12" by Haig Vardanyan….

The Studio Orchestra, choir and soloists perform not only operas. Thus, they have performed recently Bach's Mass under the direction of the Studio Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Prof. H. Mirzoyan in Moscow, St. Petersburg and cities of USA, as well as compositions by Mozart and other authors.

Thanks to the practice got in the Studio, the students easily enter the Yerevan Opera Theatre as also well as many opera theatres all over the world, after graduating from the Conservatory.