YEREVAN, JUNE 28, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Merited Artist, laureate of international contests Hovhannes Babakhanian will turn 40 on July 1. It is the 25th year the talented artist is on the stage. The actor is not going to mark none of these jubilees, as he does not like official and solemn events connected with his personality. Hovhannes Babakhanian said at the June 27 meeting with journalists. The talented artist is guided by Christian commandments and is very strict to himself on the stage, extremely responsible to the spectator, and does not accept compromises in the art. "I do not wish people to say when speaking about me: "he is not bad as an Armenian actor." I do not wish it. I like to be daring to my name, to my spectator," the actor said. Artist Hovhannes Babakhanian does not stop surprising his spectator: he continues acting in other branches of art. He successfully plays at the theater and sings and paints as much successfully. The actor has graduated from Yerevan Art and Theater Institute, Moscow Academy of Art, Opera Song Department of Yerevan Conservatory. These three art trends, according to the artist, do not complete but continue one another. The actor often plays Jesus Christ's role in the theater and cinema. According to him, these roles are very binding for him. "The role of Jesus is not just a role. One should live, feel it and then convey it to the hall. Harmony between actor's inner world and belief is important in this respect. I try to believe till the end and completely. Otherwise it is not possible to carry it out," the actor is convinced. H. Babakhanian also has another hobby, tailoring. Few people know that he has been the fashion designer of Dramatic Theater's costumes for already ten years. The actor does not at all agree to the opinion that the theater has died. According to him, the expression "the theater is dead" is insulting for the very theatrical figures. He is convinced that "those making an attempt upon theater's life are the very professional killers who are inside the theater." According to him, the theater was born with the mankind and will live for ever as mankind.

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