Karine Babajanyan was born in Armenia and studied voice at the state conservatory in Yerevan, graduating with distinction. After her first engagement at the Armenian National Opera she made her debut in Koblenz in 1999. In 2001 she became member of the ensemble at Bielefeld Theatre. Since 2003 she has been a member of the ensemble at Stuttgart State Opera. Her roles include Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Elettra in Idomeneo, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Leonore in Il Trovatore and Forza del Destino, Mimì in La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, Maria in Mazeppa and Norma. In the 2005/2006 season, Karine Babajanyan triumphed in the role of Cio-Cio San in a new production of Madame Butterfly at Stuttgart State Opera. She is a regular guest in Hamburg, Hanover, Oslo, Wiesbaden, Cologne, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Essen, at Komische Oper Berlin, in Greece and in Israel. In December 2006 she made her acclaimed debut in Tokyo and made her first appearance at the Bregenz Festival in summer 2007 and 2008 when she performed Tosca. She has had notable successes in recent years as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin in Mexico City and Stuttgart, Madame Butterfly at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Fiordiligi in Helsinki and at Berlin State Opera, Madame Butterfly and Elisabetta in Don Carlos at Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, Liù in Turandot in Stuttgart, Madame Butterfly in Dusseldorf and Rachel in La Juive under the direction of David Pountney in Tel Aviv. She also appeared in the James Bond film A Quantum of Solace in the Tosca sequence, which was shot at Bregenz. Among her future projects are Mimì in Dusseldorf and at Semperoper, Dresden.