ARMENIAN SOLO SINGERS TAKE PART IN PAVEL LISITSYAN INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF BARITONES

Solo singers Gevorg Hakobyan and David Babyants take part in Pavel Lisitsyan international contest of baritones. Hakobyan and Babayants are singers of Opera and Ballet Academic Theater after Alexander Spendiaryan. ''Armenian solo singers are participating in the contest with the financial support of ministry of culture,'' Gayane Durgaryan, public relations department head of the ministry of culture, told Panorama.am.

The opening ceremony of the first international contest of baritones after Pavel Lisityan took place on February 3. Thirty seven singers from 12 countries will take part in the first round as a result of a lot. The participants from Russia, Byelorussia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and other countries will compete for $10,000 Gran Pree Award and the right to take part in a performance of Big Theater in 2008-09.