Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar

Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar (born 1988) is a Mongolian baritone. He was born in 1988 west of Ulaanbaatar, where his family are nomads.[1] He attended the Mongolian State University of Culture and the Arts for two years,[1] and graduated in 2010.[2] He subsequently became a traffic warden in Ulaanbaatar until he joined the Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre 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 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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Frazier, Ian (November 16, 2015). "PRIZE-WINNER". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "ARIUNBAATAR GANBAATAR". Marinsky Theatre. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World bio. Accessed 17 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Molleson, Kate (2018-01-02). "How Mongolia went wild for opera". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-01.



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