The season 2011/12 took Stella Grigorian to Vienna where she was engaged in two productions at the Theater an der Wien: she sang in the world premiere of Lera Auerbach´s Gogol under the baton of Vladimir Fedosejew and she sang the part of Gertrude in a new production of Hamlet (Director: Olivier Py), conducted by Marc Minkowski. In the season 2010/11 the most outstanding engagements of the mezzo-soprano were the Orlowsky in a new production of Die Fledermaus at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and Brangäne in the Fura dels Baus production of Tristan und Isolde at the Opéra National de Lyon conducted by Kirill Petrenko.
Her most important guest performances took her to Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona (Meistersinger von Nürnberg/Claus Guth), Lisbon (Medea/Lawrence Foster), Hamburgische Staatsoper (Carmen), Salzburg Festival (Die tote Stadt), Opera Zürich (Die Walküre/Franz Welser-Möst), Aalto Theatre in Essen (Italiana in Algeri), Theater an der Wien (Katya Kabanova/Kirill Petrenko and Médée/Fabio Luisi), New Israeli Opera (Faust/Omer Meir Wellber), New National Theatre Tokyo (Carmen), Oper Graz (Werther), St. Petersburg Philharmonic (Mozart’s Requiem) and to the Vienna Konzerthaus for Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler and Mahler 8 conducted by Bertrand de Billy. At Bregenz festival she appeared in Mahler 2 with Kirill Petrenko conducting. Further concerts took her to Florence with Zubin Mehta and to Basel with Fabio Luisi. She recorded a CD I am suddenly Spanish with songs by Obradors, Glinka, Tschaikowsky, Shostakowitsch, Bizet, Ravel, Delibes, Massenet, Rossini and Donizetti, accompanied by Helmut Deutsch.
In 2006 she debuted at Frankfurt Opera as Nerone in Handel‘s Agrippina and stayed strongly related to that opera house, where she sang Sesto in La clemenza di Tito (Director: Christoph Loy), Cenerentola, Polina in Pique Dame, Medea in Cavalli’s Giasone, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims, Fenena in Nabucco, Siebel in Faust, and Sélysette in Ariane et Barbe-Bleue.
In 1998 her first professional engagement took her straight to the Vienna State Opera where she remained a member of the company until June 2006. Quickly she grew into leading roles like Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Isabella in Italiana in Algeri(with Marco Armiliato), Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Despina in Così fan tutte, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro (with Riccardo Muti and Seiji Ozawa), Pierotto in Linda di Chamounix, Meg Page in Falstaff (with Fabio Luisi), Antigone in Enescu's Oedipe, and Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette.
Born in Tiflis/Georgia. Vocal studies at the MusicAcademy in Tiflis (graduating with honours) and at the Vienna Conservatory; also language studies (Master’s degree in French and Spanish).
