Golden Gate Opera - Marin County Opera

Stage Director, returns to Golden Gate Opera to direct GGO's Hansel and Gretel, having directed the company's productions of Madama Butterfly and Carmen in 2005 and Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi in 2006 and "Opera’s Greatest Hits" Gala in 2007. In addition to her work as a director, Ms. Garabedian has performed as an opera singer to critical and popular acclaim in the United States and throughout Europe. Some of the companies she has sung leading roles with include: Munich Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Kassel Opera, Nurnberg Opera, Hannover Opera, the Spoleto Festival, Staatsoper Bonn, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Houston Opera, San Diego Opera, Baltimore Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera and Portland Opera. She has numerous awards to her credit including from the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1970), the Baltimore Opera Auditions, and the Metropolitan Opera.

Ms. Garabedian is the founder of the Fresno International Grand Opera and is founder, CEO and Artistic Director of California Opera Association in Fresno. She has taught at the International Music Institute of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been Chairman of Voice and Opera at the University of Connecticut and University of the Pacific, and served as Professor of Voice on the faculty of Northern Illinois University, California State University at Fresno, American University and San Francisco University. Ms. Garabedian has been awarded the position of Ambassdor of International Exchange Programs for U.S. and China and tours to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangshou, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, and brings outstanding opera talent from those cities to California Opera Association.