Isabel Bayrakdarian Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Isabel Bayrakdarian is an actress, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) and Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2000 - George Frideric Handel: Xerxes (Serse) - Dramma per musica (2000).
Hands down. It's hard. But you know what? You can get away with so much. After all, how many of you know Elvish? [When asked which of the two languages is more difficult to sing -- Armenian or Elvish -- she didn't hesitate to pick Tolkien's fictional dialect.]
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{A background in engineering] has come in so handy. For a long time, I was cramming new roles. To be able to memorize and keep the information - that comes from the discipline of engineering.
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I needed an outlet, so I started singing on the side, taking lessons. Initially, I just wanted to be able to sing better in church. I wasn't in a music program, so the only chance I had to really perform was in competitions. And then I started winning them.
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Fact
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In 2000, she won Placido Domingo's Operalia competition. She later had to choose between a job at an engineering firm or a tiny role in a production of "Iphigénie en Tauride." She chose the opera.
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She was born in Lebanon, the youngest of six siblings in a family where they spoke Armenian at home, Arabic in the community, and English at school. As a teen, she moved to Canada with her family. She studied biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto.
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She teaches music at UC Santa Barbara.
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She is an Armenian soprano. Her grandparents survived the 1915 genocide.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mozart 22
2006
TV Series
Zerlina
Burnt Toast
2005
TV Movie
Julie (singing voice)
Burnt Toast: The Traffic Jam
2004
Short
Woman (singing voice)
Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2000 - George Frideric Handel: Xerxes (Serse) - Dramma per musica
2000
TV Movie
Romilda, his daughter
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Time Traveler's Wife
2009
performer: "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"
Decoys
2004
performer: "Viens, Mallika Dome Epais ou le Blanc Jasmin"
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
performer: "Evenstar"
Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2000 - George Frideric Handel: Xerxes (Serse) - Dramma per musica
2000
TV Movie performer: "Serse, Opera in three acts"
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Burnt Toast: The Traffic Jam
2004
Short musician: vocalist
Ararat
2002
soprano
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film
2005
TV Special
Soprano
The Making of 'Ararat'
2003
Video documentary short
Herself - Soprano in Studio
Known for movies
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) as Soundtrack
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) as Soundtrack
Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2000 - George Frideric Handel: Xerxes (Serse) - Dramma per musica (2000) as Romilda, his daughter
$700,000
