In light of her recent Juno Award nomination, the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Radio-Canada aired a feature on Isabel Bayrakdarian and the story behind her Delos release, Mother of Light!
Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian jokingly blames all the opera plots she’s been immersed in her entire singing career — plots where a character makes a pact with a devil — as the inspiration for her own a pact with God, one she took very seriously.
“I said God, ‘You take care of my mom, and I’ll sing about your mom,'” said Bayrakdarian.
Her Juno-nominated album Mother of Light: Armenian hymns and chants in praise of Mary was the result of this promise Bayrakdarian made with God.
