Since emerging in the Pittsburgh opera community, Katie Manukyan has rapidly become a regional favorite for the beauty and strength of her voice as well as for her specialization in Slavic repertoire.
Last February Katie made her debut as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in concert with Undercroft Opera, as well as serving as primary diction coach and and co-producer for the opera. This November she will appear in a concert to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Spanish composer and pianist Enrique Granados at University of Pittsburgh's Frick Fine Arts Auditorium together with pianist Eric Dzugan. Katie's schedule for 2018 includes an exciting debut as Volkhova in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko and another anniversary concert to celebrate Claude Debussy.
Katie made her stage debut in 2014. Her earliest roles included: Butterfly in Madama Butterfly (UO, 2015); Pamina in The Magic Flute (UO, 2014); the High Priestess in a concert version of Aida (UO, 2014); Winnie Blocker in the world premiere of Gilda Lyons's A New Kind of Fallout (OTP, 2015); and Gloria Thorpe in Damn Yankees (OTP, 2015). In 2016 Katie debuted five roles in Pittsbugh and Washington DC theaters: Micaela (Carmen); Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi); Mabel (Pirates of Penzance); Monica (The Medium); and Gorislava (Ruslan and Ludmila). In 2016 she was also selected as a Major Artist Winner by the Pittsburgh Concert Society.
Katie received musical training at Northwestern University, Tchaikovsky Musical College-Conservatory in Moscow, Russia, and The Ohio State University. She embarked upon her opera career with the support of the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh as a prize winner in its "Opera Champion of Pittsburgh" competition in 2011, the same year that she received her doctoral degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures. She has sung Slavic repertoire in Russian, Polish, and Czech languages at a wide range of functions including, memorably, the 2014 visit of the former first lady of Poland, Danuta Wałęsa, to Pittsburgh and the homecoming reception of the Russian Para-Olympic team in Moscow after the 2004 Games.
Last February Katie made her debut as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in concert with Undercroft Opera, as well as serving as primary diction coach and and co-producer for the opera. This November she will appear in a concert to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Spanish composer and pianist Enrique Granados at University of Pittsburgh's Frick Fine Arts Auditorium together with pianist Eric Dzugan. Katie's schedule for 2018 includes an exciting debut as Volkhova in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko and another anniversary concert to celebrate Claude Debussy.
Katie made her stage debut in 2014. Her earliest roles included: Butterfly in Madama Butterfly (UO, 2015); Pamina in The Magic Flute (UO, 2014); the High Priestess in a concert version of Aida (UO, 2014); Winnie Blocker in the world premiere of Gilda Lyons's A New Kind of Fallout (OTP, 2015); and Gloria Thorpe in Damn Yankees (OTP, 2015). In 2016 Katie debuted five roles in Pittsbugh and Washington DC theaters: Micaela (Carmen); Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi); Mabel (Pirates of Penzance); Monica (The Medium); and Gorislava (Ruslan and Ludmila). In 2016 she was also selected as a Major Artist Winner by the Pittsburgh Concert Society.
Katie received musical training at Northwestern University, Tchaikovsky Musical College-Conservatory in Moscow, Russia, and The Ohio State University. She embarked upon her opera career with the support of the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh as a prize winner in its "Opera Champion of Pittsburgh" competition in 2011, the same year that she received her doctoral degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures. She has sung Slavic repertoire in Russian, Polish, and Czech languages at a wide range of functions including, memorably, the 2014 visit of the former first lady of Poland, Danuta Wałęsa, to Pittsburgh and the homecoming reception of the Russian Para-Olympic team in Moscow after the 2004 Games.