# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/armand-tokatyan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:16:44.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/armand-tokatyan"
name: "Armand Tokatyan"
slug: "armand-tokatyan"
description: "Armand Tokatyan was an operatic tenor. An Armenian born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, he travelled to Egypt with his parents where he sang in cafés to a favorable response. He was then sent to Paris to study tailoring, but instead sang in Left Bank cafés. In 1914, he returned to Egypt and earned his living by again singing in the cafés. He took up operetta, soon becoming a matinee idol, then in 1919 went to Milan to pursue an opera career. His operatic debut was in 1921 at the Teatro Dal Verme in Puccini's Manon Lescaut. With the help of Italian conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek, he joined the touring Scotti Opera Company in the United States, and was soon noticed by the Metropolitan Opera where he debuted in 1923. For many years he performed there and at many other opera houses in the US and Europe. He was proficient in numerous languages. Many recordings were made of his performances."
tagline: "Bulgarian opera singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Armand_Tokatyan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1896-07-17"
deathDate: "1960-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.402772
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ارماند توكاتيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Tokatyan"
    title: "Armand Tokatyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آرماند توکاتیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D4%B9%D5%B8%D6%84%D5%A1%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Արման Թոքաթյան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/56f7a85d-49e2-4486-8810-42d7f7ad25d9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4792706"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump