Reports on Montserrat Caballé’s upcoming concert in Khankendi dismissed
Organizer of the concert of the world-famous Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballé in Yerevan, Vahagn Gevorgyan, has denied information about the singer's planned concert in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, Novosti-Armenia news agency reported.
Earlier, a source at the National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet told the agency that the concerts of Caballé and Youth Orchestra of Armenia will be held in Yerevan and Khankendi, the center of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh republic run by ethnic Armenians in the occupied Azerbaijani territories. Other Armenian media outlets also disseminated this information.
"As an organizer, I assert that the information about Caballé's concert in Nagorno Karabakh is not true," Gevorgyan said.
Caballé's concert in Yerevan will take place at the National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet on June 9.
Caballé, singer of bel canto style, became well-known by performing classics - Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. Caballé became famous in 1965 when Marilyn Horne listened to Lucrezia Borgia opera by Gaetano Donizetti in her performance.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the U.S. are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.