Sergey Stepanyan is an Armenian bass with a wide-ranging repertoire and a particular affinity for Verdi. His voice and musical temperament lend themselves especially well to some of Verdi’s leading bass roles, including Jacopo Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Padre Guardiano in La forza del destino, Ramfis and Il Re d’Egitto in Aida, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Lodovico in Otello, Tom in Un ballo in maschera, Giovanni da Procida in I vespri siciliani and Ferrando in Il trovatore.

A graduate of the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan and the Accademia Lirica Internazionale di Arte Lirica in Osimo, Sergey made his operatic debut in 2019 as Zuniga in Bizet’s Carmen at the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. He subsequently performed a range of leading bass roles at the theatre, including the King of Egypt in Aida, Colline in La bohème, Timur in Turandot and Tom in Un ballo in maschera.

His international career includes appearances at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg, where he performed the King of Egypt in Aida, Tom in Un ballo in maschera and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte. In 2021 he made his German debut at Theater Kiel as the Cook in Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges, returning subsequently as Cardinal de Brogni in Halévy’s La Juive, Lodovico in Verdi’s Otello and the King of Egypt in Aida.

Further engagements have included Don Basilio in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Immling Festival, Benoît and Colline in La bohème with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Armenian National Opera, and Lodovico in Otello, the King of Egypt in Aida, Tom in Un ballo in maschera, Timur in Turandot and Zuniga in Carmen at the Armenian National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.

In 2024, Sergey was invited to Teatro Regio di Torino as cover for Riccardo Zanellato as Cardinal de Brogni in Halévy’s La Juive.

His concert appearances include performances with the Warsaw Philharmonic, Kaunas Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, as well as a concert with Ildar Abdrazakov at the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.