Nino Surguladze
Nino Surguladze (Georgian: ნინო სურგულაძე; born 12 October 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia)[1] is a Georgian mezzo-soprano.
Biography
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Born in Tbilisi, Surguladze studied singing with Guliko Kariauli at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire.[2] After winning a prize at the Francisco Viñas International Singing Contest in Barcelona, she earned her a scholarship at the Accademia of the Teatro alla Scala [it],[3][2][4] where she studied with Leyla Gencer and Luciana Serra.[5] She made her operatic debut as Cuniza in Verdi's Oberto and Zulma in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri in Milan in 2002,[6][7] and has since appeared in many opera houses around the world.
She has appeared in the Italian television film Rigoletto a Mantova (2010) and in the Georgian films Valsi Pechoraze[8] and Metichara.[9] In 2010, she was awarded the Presidential Order of Excellence by Mikhail Saakashvili.[10][11] In 2018 she appeared in the title role of a video-recorded performance of Bizet's Carmen by the Opéra Royal de Liège.
Surguladze is a founder of the charity foundation Desire Tree, which aims to provide assistance to children in need of medical care.[12][13]
Operatic repertoire
Bellini
- Adalgisa (Norma)[14]
Berlioz
- Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust)[15]
Bizet
- Carmen (Carmen)[5]
Gounod
- Siebel (Faust)[16]
Tchaikovsky
- Olga (Eugene Onegin)[17]
Mascagni
- Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana)[18]
Mozart
- Dorabella (Così fan tutte)[19]
Verdi
- Amneris (Aida)[20]
- Fenena (Nabucco)[21]
- Maddalena (Rigoletto)[22]
Discography
- Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto. Arthaus, DVD, 2010
- Bizet: Carmen. Dynamic, DVD, 2009
- Sergei Prokofiev: Betrothal in a monastery. Glyndebourne, CD, 2006
- Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco. Arthaus, DVD, 2006
- Gioacchino Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon. TDK, DVD, 2005
- Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. EMI Classics, DVD, 2002
References
- ^ "Georgia: Nino Surguladze". BBC. 1 July 2003.
- ^ a b "New Style Magazine (2010-07-22), Астральные миры Нино Сургуладзе". Archived from the original on 2017-06-01. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
- ^ "Gran Teatre del Liceu, Francisco Viñas Contest: Contest's prizewinners (from 2001 to 2010)". Archived from the original on 2012-11-04. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
- ^ YouTube.com, Intervista a Nino Surguladze, Rigoletto al Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, 13 Novembre 2013
- ^ a b Corriere della Sera (2010-01-15), L'altra Carmen della Georgia: "Canto la libertà delle donne"
- ^ BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, 2003. Georgia: Nino Surguladze
- ^ Corriere della Sera (2002-09-11), Verdi, "Oberto conte di San Bonifacio" torna mezzo secolo dopo con i giovani della Scala
- ^ IMDb Valsi Pechoraze (1992)
- ^ IMDb, Metichara (1988).
- ^ Georgian Journal (2010-09-16), N. Surguladze was decorated with an order
- ^ ekhokavkaza.com (2010-09-08), Нино Сургуладзе награждена орденом "Сияние"
- ^ Social Partnership, Nino Surguladze will assist 5 children with severe diseases
- ^ Inform (2014-12-29), Questa sera a Tbilisi un concerto della Fondazione "Desire Tree"
- ^ The Guardian (2015-04-11), Al Bustan - the classical music festival in Beirut that survives war and assassinations
- ^ OperaClick, Parma - Teatro Regio: La damnation de Faust
- ^ Corriere della Sera (2010--06-19), Scala, "Faust" con la protesta
- ^ Corriere della Sera (2006-01-17), Ma Oneghin è un Bovarista
- ^ Classique News (2014-05-27), Compte rendu, opéra. Avignon. Opéra, le 20 mai 2014. Mascagni : Cavalleria Rusticana. Leoncavallo : Pagliacci
- ^ "Mundoclasico.com (2010-03-10), Mozart through the looking-glass". Archived from the original on 2015-09-27. Retrieved 2015-08-03.
- ^ ConcertoNet.com, Aïda ou l'oeil de l'orchestre
- ^ GBopera (2015-06-21), Arena di Verona - 93° Opera Festival 2015
- ^ The New York Times (2010-10-03), Returning to realism and revisiting a tragedy
External links
- Official website
- Nino Surguladze at MCdomani (management agency)
- Nino Surguladze at Operabase (performance schedule)
- Nino Surguladze at IMDb