Hasmik Papian is one of the most successful lirico spinto sopranos worldwide. In the current season Hasmik Papian has performed in Seoul at ArtsCenter (Tosca). She also sang gala performances at the Armenian State Opera, in Paris and Beirut. Further gala performances will follow in Los Angeles and at the Summer Festival in Xanten. Next season she will make her role debut as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde at Theater Magdeburg.

In the 2010/11 season Hasmik Papian performed at Dallas Opera (Anna Bolena), Opera Hedeland Festival in Denmark (Norma), at Royal Opera House in Stockholm (Norma), Teatro San Carlo (Tosca), the Zurich Opera House (Nabucco, Abigaille) and at the summer festival in Split (La Gioconda).

In the last two years the soprano sang again at the Vienna State Opera (Leonora in Forza del Destino and Tosca), at Opera de Oviedo (Tosca), Semperoper in Dresden (Verdi's Lady Macbeth, Tosca, Aida), Vancouver Opera (Norma ), Warsaw Philharmonic (Norma in concert), at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Norma, Lady Macbeth, Leonora in Il Trovatore), the Bavarian State Opera (Aida, Abigail in Nabucco), at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Aida). In addition, she made her debut as Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at Teatro Verdi in Trieste. She also sang Norma at Baltimore Opera, Opéra de Monte Carlo (house debut) and in Avignon as well as concert performances of Pizzetti's Fedra in Montpellier, Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer in Denver and Verdi's Attila at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In Dallas, she made her debut as Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux.

Hasmik Papian studied violin and singing in her home country in Armenian. After her debut at the National Opera Yerevan and first engagements at the Bonn Opera and the Deutsche Oper in Düsseldorf, soon she was invited to the most prestigious opera stages around the world including the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, Opéra National de Paris and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She sang at the State Operas of Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Dresden, as well as in Amsterdam, Zurich, Geneva, Madrid, Seville, Rome, Bologna, Palermo, Ravenna, Lyon, Montpellier, Nice, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tel Aviv and Tokyo. In North America she performed at the Opera Festival in Cincinnati, San Francisco, Denver, Detroit, Dallas, Washington DC, Toronto and Montreal just to name a few.

She also successfully performed on the concert stage amongst others in Carcassonne, Nice, Marseille, Toulon, Lille, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Beethoven Hall in Bonn, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, at the Festival Chorégies d'Orange, the Warsaw Spring, at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, in Palermo, Milan and Tokyo. In addition Hasmik Papian sang recitals at the festival in Antibes, Marseille, Montpellier, WashingtonDC, London (Wigmore Hall), Vienna (Musikverein) and Paris.

In the course of her career Hasmik Papian has worked with important conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Marcello Viotti, Georges Pretre, Michel Plasson, Thomas Hengelbrock, Ivor Bolton, Stefan Soltesz, Simone Young, James Conlon, James Levine, Richard Bonynge, Myun-Wun Chung and Valery Gergiev.