As a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2023, she appears next season as the soprano soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under Marc Minkowski, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Riccardo Minasi, and reprises some of her acclaimed roles including Gilda (Rigoletto), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and Voce dal Cielo (Don Carlo). In the summer of 2028, she makes her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Norina in Don Pasquale.
Recent engagements include selected Haydn Arias on tour with Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico / Basel Kammerorchester, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, Luigi Nono’s Canti di vita e d’amore with Sir Donald Runnicles at the Berliner Philharmonie, Sophie (Werther) with Enrique Mazzola at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Frasquita and Pamina at the Semperoper Dresden, Mozart-Gala at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and Pamina at the Soirées Lyriques de Sanxay.
Her debut as Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare directed by Damiano Michieletto and conducted by Stefano Montanari received outstanding reviews from the Italian press, celebrating her return to Teatro Petruzzelli shortly after her first appearance in Bari in Debussy’s Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien.
Lilit has also frequently collaborated with the Salzburger Festspiele, appearing in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (La Princesse/La Chauve-Souris) in 2023, and returning in 2024 as the Pale Lady in Peter Sellars’ acclaimed production of Prokofiev’s The Gambler, conducted by Timur Zangiev.
At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lilit has earned widespread praise for role debuts including Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) under the musical director of Corrado Rovaris, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Marzelline (Fidelio), Gilda (Rigoletto), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims), Lauretta (Il Trittico), Shepherd/Der Hirt (Tannhäuser), Resi (Strauss’ Intermezzo), Bice (Korngold’s Violanta), Pepik and Heuschreck (Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen), first Blumenmädchen (Parsifal) and many more.
She is an alumna of the Young Artist Program of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (2021-2023), where she studied under Dmitri Vdovin, and was selected for both the Young Singers Project at the 2023 Salzburg Festival and the Académie of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2024.
Lilit is the recipient of numerous international awards, including First Prize at the Concorso Internazionale Città di Pesaro of the Rossini Opera Festival, Second Prize and the Special Prize for Russian Repertoire at the José Carreras Grand Prix (Moscow, 2021), the Special Prize for the Interpretation of Rachmaninoff Songs at the International Rachmaninoff Competition (2022), was a finalist at the Neue Stimmen Competition (2022), a semi-finalist at Operalia (Mumbai, 2024), and won the Grand Prix at the XII International Competition-Festival of Young Performers in Yekaterinburg (2016).
A native of Armenia, Lilit graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, where she completed both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees as concert pianist in 2022. Alongside her piano studies, she worked as a repetiteur while simultaneously studying voice at the Yerevan State Opera Studio.
Lilit Davtyan speaks Armenian, English, Russian, Italian and German. She is represented worldwide by Fabiana Dalpiaz at Askonas Holt.