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Sona Ghazarian, Lebanese soprano who won over Béjart, Karajan and Domingo

Fifty years after her debut at the Vienna Opera in 1972, Sona Ghazarian, who sang on the world's greatest opera stages in the 70s, 80s and 90s, looks back exclusively for L'Orient Le Jour on her musical genesis in Lebanon and pays tribute to the woman who spotted her incredible talent.

Sona Ghazarian, Lebanese soprano who won over Béjart, Karajan and Domingo

From left to right: Raif Abillama, Badia Sabra Haddad, Sona Ghazarian, Anahid and Hagop Ghazarian, May 6, 1966, at Gulbenkian Hall, Beirut. (Credit: The Ghazarian family)

Over a cup of Viennese coffee and Sachertorte (German for chocolate cake with apricot filling) in her elegant salon in Vienna, the beautiful Lebanese-Austrian soprano Sona Ghazarian talked about her childhood in Beirut and her studies at the...
Over a cup of Viennese coffee and Sachertorte (German for chocolate cake with apricot filling) in her elegant salon in Vienna, the beautiful Lebanese-Austrian soprano Sona Ghazarian talked about her childhood in Beirut and her studies at the...