Third-year Butler Studio artist Navasard Hakobyan won first place at HGO’s 2022 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias. In 2023, he won Third Prize and the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize of Zarzuela at the Operalia World Opera Competition, and in 2024 was named a Winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. During HGO’s 2023-24 season, he performed as Sharpless in alternate cast performances of Madame Butterfly, and during the company’s 2022-23 season, he performed the roles of Baron Douphol in La traviata, Antonio in The Marriage of Figaro, and Second Nazarene in Salome. Other engagements during the 2024-25 season include a house debut with Semperoper Dresden, a solo concert in Prague, and more.  The 2023-24 season brought his house and role debut as Gregorio in Romeo and Juliet with Dallas Opera and his Carnegie Hall debut in a concert dedicated to Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary. In 2023 as a fellow at Music Academy of the West, Hakobyan performed the role of Marcello in La bohème. Hakobyan was named winner of the 2023 Marilyn Horne Song Competition at Music Academy of the West and received first prize in the 2023 Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition, a 2022 Sullivan Award, first prize at the 2023 Butler Opera International Voice Competition in Austin, and third prize in the 2021 José Carreras Grand Prix International Competition. He was a member of the young artist program at the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Yerevan, Armenia.