Haykanoush Danielyan

Haykanoush Danielyan studied at Saint Petersburg Conservatory. The recorded working language is Armenian and Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yerevan Opera Theater and Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. Positions recorded include deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and director. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the USSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Haykanoush Danielyan • Born — 15 December 1893 • Birthplace — Tiflis, Russian Empire (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia) • Died — 19 April 1958 • Place of death — Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Singer, music educator • Genre — Classical • Instrument — Singing

• Illustration — Martiros Saryan drawing Haykanoush Danielyan between 1946 and 1949 Haykanush Danielyan was born in Tiflis. In 1920 she graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory. In 1920–1932 she sang in the opera theaters of Petrograd and Tiflis. In 1924, together with the singers Levon Isetsky and Shara Talyan, she participated in the performances of Leninakan opera group and performed with concerts. In 1941–1951 she taught at Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan. In 1949–1952 she was the director of the Pyotr Tchaikovsky musical school. Since 1932 she had been a soloist at the Yerevan Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1941, she starred in the film Armenian Film-Concert shot at "Yerevan" TV studio. Haykanoush Danielyan had performed songs and romances from Armenian and foreign composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Glazunov. Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1941. Member of parliament of Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union for two convocations (1946–1950), member of parliament of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR of the first and third convocations. She died in 1958.

• Author — Performance — Role • Giuseppe Verdi — Rigoletto — Gilda • Giuseppe Verdi — La traviata — Violetta • Gioachino Rossini — The Barber of Seville — Rosina • Giacomo Puccini — Madama Butterfly — Cio-Cio-san (Madama Butterfly) • Armen Tigranian — Anoush — Anoush • Mikhail Glinka — A Life for the Tsar — Antonida • Giacomo Meyerbeer — Les Huguenots — Marguerite de Valois • Tigran Chukhajian — Arshak II — Olympia