Culture

Tigran Mansurian, Armenia’s most celebrated composer, will turn 75 this month and the Dilijan Chamber Music series will celebrate Sunday afternoon at the Zipper Concert Hall of the Colburn School with a survey of the Mansurian’s chamber music over the past half century. As reports “Armenpress” the prominent American periodical L...

“My Mother’s Voice” film devoted to the Armenian Genocide on January 12 will be displayed within the frames of Irvine International Film Festival. “Armenpress” reports citing “Asbarez” periodical that the screening of the film will be followed by a discussion with the film’s writer, narrator, and co-producer, Kay Mouradian, its...

The funeral of one of the brightest figures in modern Armenian prose Levon Khechoyan took place in Chamber Music Hall named after Komitas in Yerevan on January 10. Not only colleagues came to offer condolences to the writer’s relatives, but representatives of social, cultural fields, as well as political figures. The Prime Minis...

The requiem of the actor, rector of Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema Armen Mazmanyan took place in St. John Church in Yerevan on January 10. Many political figures, intellectuals, artists and people appreciating Armen Mazmanyan’s art attended the requiem ceremony and delivered their tribute to the intellectual. “I ...

One of the most radiant representatives of the 20th century cinema Sergei Parajanov would celebrate his 90th birthday anniversary on January 9. This is a good occasion for the outstanding filmmaker’s friends and fans to come together over Parajanov’s art. In a conversation with “Armenpress” the Director of Sergei Parajanov’s Mus...

The June 18 concert performed by the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and celebrated Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja at Dubai Opera was highly acclaimed by the audience. At the recommendation of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and its conductor Sergey Smbatyan, famous Armenian composer Alexander Spendiaryan’s romance “Oh R...

Armenian representative of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Mika is in high spirits. The young singer told “Armenpress” the aforementioned being in Bulgaria. “I am very happy now though I must say that I am excited a bit. I fell very happy as one of my biggest dreams is coming trues and in hours, I will perform for Eurovi...

YEREVAN, JUNE 25, ARMENPRESS: This year, too, the “Golden Apricot” film festival will kick off with traditional ceremony of apricot blessing, which will take place in St Zoravor Church. Organizer of the festival programs Vardan Hakobyan said today at a meeting with journalists that this year besides showing films, a contest of “...

YEREVAN, JULY 30, ARMENPRESS: The “Phoenix” Human Resources Development All-Armenian Foundation granted today 10 manuscripts, among them a copy of Grigor Narekatsi’s ‘Matyan Voghbergutyan’, made 1331 in Kilikia, to the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. Hrachya Tamrazyan, director of the Matenadaran, mentioned th...

STEPANAKERT, JULY 30, ARMENPRESS: The scientific library of the NKR MFA has received as a gift the Russian version of the book ‘Artsakh’ by bishop Makar Barkhudaryants published in Science publishing office in St. Petersburg. NKR MFA Press Service told Armenpress the edition was prepared by Bella and Vahe Grigorians, the transl...