Born in Armenia, Ruzan Mantashyan studied piano at the Komitas Conservatory in Yerevan at the age of seven. A few years later, she began to study singing at the same institution with Valey Harutyunov. She then went on to study at the Accademia di Belcanto of Mirella Freni in Modena, and then with Hedwig Fassbender at the Frankfurt Conservatory, where she obtained her Master’s degree in 2014, after which she joined the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris for two years. Ruzan was a finalist in the Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona where she won the special prize. She also won the Toti dal Monte Competition for Musetta (La bohème) and performed this role in Treviso, Bolzano, Fermo and Ferrara. Her engagements have enabled her to play the roles of Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) in Modena; Servilia (La clemenza di Tito) in Reggio Emilia; Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Opéra Bastille and the Glyndebourne Festival; the Child (L’Enfant et les sortilèges) at the Komische Oper Berlin; Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) in Paris-Creteil, Lille, the Staatsoper Munich and Seoul; Micaëla (Carmen) in Montpellier and Hamburg; Xenia (Boris Godounov) at the Opéra de Paris. She gave a particularly noteworthy performance as Mimi (La bohème) and Marguerite (Faust) in Geneva. Ruzan has also appeared as Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) at the Hamburg Staatsoper; Cleofide (Handel’s Poro, Redell’Indie) at the Komische Oper; Mimi at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; as well as Fiordiligi and Mimi in Zurich. She also sang at the Peralada Festival in a duet with Juan Diego Flórez. Recent engagements have included playing Natacha Rostova (War and Peace) in Geneva; Tatiana in Liège; Fiordiligi in Zurich; Tatiana and Alice Ford (Falstaff) at the Komische Oper; and Rachel (La Juive) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Her roles for the 2022/23 season and beyond include: Tatiana in Hamburg, Wiener Staatsoper and Komische Oper; Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at Glyndebourne and Zurich; Mimi at Covent Garden and Tokyo, Tatiana at the Wiener Staatsoper eand the Komische Oper, Donna Elvira at Zurich…