YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 30, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Hasmik Papian, who has performed on stages of famous opera theaters of the world and captured many spectators, is again in Armenia: she was invited to take part in the jubilee concert dedicated to 50th anniversary of Public Television and 80th anniversary of Public Radio. The singer said this during the November 30 meeting with journalists at the Urbat (Friday) club. The world-famous soprano has contracts with famous opera theaters of Europe and other continents of the world until 2009 inclusive. After the short interval in Yerevan she will perform concerts in U.S. and South Korea. Currently the Norma DVD disk with her performance is sold in almost all countries of the world. And the laser disk of Komitas songs' performances released lately received the Pizzicato first prize. Hasmik Papian said that to take part in the concert dedicated to Year of Armenia in France is a credit to her. "I have prepared an interesting program on this occasion, this is selection of Armenian songs, from medieval Armenian church psalms, Komitas' songs up to Mansurian's works. This program will give foreigners an opportunity to form a complete idea about Armenian art of singing," the singer emphasized. H.Papian mentioned with modesty peculiar to her that she does not think she has achieved everything in this sphere of art. "Each concert is first for me. Though I have been on the stage for 20 years I go up to the stage with great responsibility every time. I wish to stay on the stage long and to perform one of Wagner's operas, especially Isolde's aria from Tristan and Isolde I have always wished to perform," she said. To recap, currently Hasmik Papian is the most famous performer of Norma's aria. She has performed this part for 172 times on stages of the best opera theaters of the world.

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