- Isabel Bayrakdarian is known for The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and Mozart 22 (2006). She is married to Serouj Kradjian. They have two children.
- SpouseSerouj Kradjian(? - present) (2 children)
- She is an Armenian soprano. Her grandparents survived the 1915 genocide.
- She teaches music at UC Santa Barbara.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- {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.
- 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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