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). A current ensemble member of the Opéra de Paris, Ahangaran is one of the announced participants of the renowned Operalia competition in Sofia, set to take place at the Bulgaria Concert Hall in October 2025.
The highly anticipated 2025-26 season holds exciting roles for Amin Ahangaran: at Opéra de Paris he appears as Angelotti in Tosca, followed by Zaretsky in Ralph Fiennes’ new Eugene Onegin under Semyon Bychkov and Case Scaglione. Further in Paris, he portrays Parsi Rustomjiin in a new production of Glass’ Satyagraha staged by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber and led by Ingo Metzmacher, and closes the season as Dottore in La traviata. On the concert stage, the bass returns to the Zurich Opera as Brander in Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust with maestro Yves Abel.
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). A current ensemble member of the Opéra de Paris, Ahangaran is one of the announced participants of the renowned Operalia competition in Sofia, set to take place at the Bulgaria Concert Hall in October 2025.
The highly anticipated 2025-26 season holds exciting roles for Amin Ahangaran: at Opéra de Paris he appears as Angelotti in Tosca, followed by Zaretsky in Ralph Fiennes’ new Eugene Onegin under Semyon Bychkov and Case Scaglione. Further in Paris, he portrays Parsi Rustomjiin in a new production of Glass’ Satyagraha staged by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber and led by Ingo Metzmacher, and closes the season as Dottore in La traviata. On the concert stage, the bass returns to the Zurich Opera as Brander in Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust with maestro Yves Abel.
In the 2024–25 season, Ahangaran joined the ensemble of the Opéra de Paris where he saw performances as Wagner (Faust), Conte Ceprano (Rigoletto), Un Berger and Le Médecin (Pelléas et Mélisande), and Un député flamand (Don Carlos).
Previous highlights include performances at the Zurich Opera as Rabonnier (La rondine), Medico (Macbeth), Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), the Mandarin (Turandot), and Dumas (Andrea Chénier), as well as Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) in Schaffhausen. He appeared at the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project in the 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 received multiple awards, including prizes at the CLIP Portofino, Riccardo Zandonai, and Voci Verdiane competitions.
