Background
ABELYAN, Ovanes was born on Febr 4, 1865 in Shemakha, now Azer Soviet Socialist Republic.
ABELYAN, Ovanes was born on Febr 4, 1865 in Shemakha, now Azer Soviet Socialist Republic.
1882 stage debut at Russian Theater, Baku. 1886 switched to Arm stage. 1925 at Sundukyan Theater, Yerevan.
In the course of his 54 years on the stage he performed some 1,200 roles, including: Elizbaron in A. Shirvanzade’s ’’Foreign the Sake of Honor”. Pepo in G. Sundukyan’s Pepo Neschastlivtsev in Ostrovskiy’s Les (I'he Forest). Bulychyov in Gorky's Yegor Bulychyov, Oedipus in Sophocles’ ’’Oedipus Rex".
Lear in Shakespeare's "King Lear”. Stockmann in Ibsen’s ’’Doctor Stockmann”. Osip in Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector), et cetera
Was a talented, temperamental and dynamic actor and a leading figure of the Arm stage. From 1918 chairman, Actors’ Union, Tiflis. Performed in Turkey, Egypt, Germany, United States of America and other countries.