Full Biography
Amin Ahangaran, praised as a “full-bodied and firm bass” with a “beautiful nocturnal colour” (Opera Libera) and “one of the most charming voices of his generation” (OPERA Charm Magazine), is an alumnus of both the Accademia del Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence and the Zurich Opera’s International Opera Studio (IOS). Ahangaran has been a member of the ensemble at Opéra de Paris since 2024/25, a tenure he continues through the 2026/27 season.
The 2026/27 season holds exciting roles for Amin Ahangaran at the Opéra de Paris, where he appears as Fiorello in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Pope and Gardien in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and Gregorio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette.
In recent seasons in Paris, Ahangaran has appeared in a wide range of roles, notably as Zaretsky in Ralph Fiennes’ new production of Eugene Onegin under Semyon Bychkov and as Parsi Rustomji in Philip Glass’ Satyagraha staged by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher. Further roles include Angelotti (Tosca), Dottore in (La traviata), Wagner (Faust), Conte Ceprano (Rigoletto), Un Berger and Le Médecin (Pelléas et Mélisande), and Un député flamand (Don Carlos).
Further recent highlights include appearances with Opera Zurich as Brander in Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust in concert under the baton of Yves Abel, as well as Rabonnier in La rondine, Medico in Macbeth, Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mandarin in Turandot, and Dumas in Andrea Chénier. In Schaffhausen he appeared as Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia .
He has appeared at the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project in a new production of Prokofiev’s The Gambler, and has collaborated with conductors such as Riccardo Frizza, Gianandrea Noseda, Daniele Gatti, and Manfred Honeck in productions including Rigoletto (Usciere), Siberia (L’ispettore), Ariadne auf Naxos (Lakai), Jakob Lenz (Basso) and La traviata (un Commissionario).
Amin Ahangaran’s artistic training began in Tehran in 2016 and continued in Austria, where he debuted as Sarastro (The Magic Flute) and performed regularly as a soloist in the Graz region. He is a laureate of scholarships from AIMS and Academia Belcanto, participating in several prestigious masterclasses. In 2022, Ahangaran was the recipient of competition prizes at CLIP Portofino, Riccardo Zandonai, and Voci Verdiane.
© CSAM, August 2026
