Nino Surguladze
mezzo sopran
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Mikheil Saakashvili Granted the Presidential Order of Excellency to Nino Surguladze
http://www.president.gov.ge/en/PressOffice/News?p=5410&i=3
Placido Domingo gave concert together with
Georgian Opera Stars
Concert of the World-renowned Spanish tenor and conductor Placido
Domingo was held in Batumi yesterday.
Placido Domingho presented some known arias together with Georgia
opera singers. Domingo offered six Georgian singers to participate
in the concert. Among them were
Nino Surguladze,Paata Burchuladze, Lado Ataneli, Eteri Lamorisi,
Nino Machaidze.
Before the concert, Placido Domingo together with the Georgian
President nMikheil Saakashvili observed Batumi opera building.
"Rigoleto a Mantova" was aired in 149 countries, among them in Georgia. The Georgian opera-singer Nino Surguladze took part in the televised historical world premier with the world-famous Opera stars as well. Nino Surguladze sang together with Placido Domingo in this version of "Rigoleto". After this triumph Nino Surguladze received the Presidential Order of Excellency for the exceptional talent and participation in successful project in the city, where the world premiere was held. "Besides being a very talented singer it turned out that Nino is a very talented actor as well. She still has the same manners she had in the movie "Upstart". Nino became a grand superstar after being a small star. Nothing more one could achieve in this sphere and the whole world saw this achievement today. Nino Surguladze made the whole world tremble during several hours. I want to grant Nino the Presidential Order of Excellency in this field environment for expressing Georgian talent in the highest and most brilliant way. Nino is the face and the voice of Georgia", Mikheil Saakashvili stated.
Georgian mezzo feels 'Carmen' in her soul
By CHARLENE BALDRIDGE - For the North county Times | Posted:
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:21 pm
Nino Surguladze arrives at her interview clad in black and white
with a straw hat and big, round sunglasses. She looks more like
Audrey Hepburn than the Penelope Cruz of bel canto (which she's been
called), although the latter might be more appropriate. Surguladze
is in San Diego to sing Carmen, the fiery gypsy in Georges Bizet's
1875 opera.
You may not hear it in the opera house, but the Georgian
mezzo-soprano's speaking voice is vibrant and warm. Seated near her,
one feels the strong presence described last year by San Diego Opera
general and artistic director Ian Campbell, who believes she will be
a kittenish, more careless Carmen.
The immensely popular opera opens a four-show run Sunday to close
the company's season. The final performance is already sold out and
ticket sales for the rest are brisk.
Carmen works in a Seville cigarette factory, where she stabs another
woman. A group of soldiers is nearby and she is arrested. Spanish
soldier Don Jose (tenor Richard Leech) is ordered to take Carmen to
prison. Captivated by her beauty, Don Jose instead helps her to
escape into the mountains, for which he is arrested.
The moment Don Jose is released, he finds Carmen and becomes her
lover, joining her band of smugglers. Don Jose's innocent young
fiancee, Michaela (soprano Talese Trevigne) arrives at their
encampment, begging him to return to their village. But Don Jose
refuses to leave Carmen, even though she's grown bored with him. And
when she falls for the swaggering bullfighter Escamillo (baritone
Wayne Tigges), he goes to the bullring in a jealous rage, insisting
that if he can't have Carmen, no one will.
"Carmen is a symbol of freedom," said Surguladze, who believes
Carmen represents all women who've struggled for respect, for an
equal place in society. Smiling, she says that Michaela always gets
the biggest applause because she represents society's ideal,
virtuous woman. "I love that, too, but the world is beautiful
because it has different colors. Carmen is trying to survive in a
man’s world. A Gypsy in that time, what place they had? Carmen is
the way she is. I'm sure my Carmen is really in love. Because of her
Gypsy blood, she knows the future, but she's not stopping because
she believes in destiny and wants to be a hero. She is the spirit of
contrabandier (the smugglers) and must be brave. I like that. I feel
myself also Carmen."
Surguladze was a brave child, preparing for life as a citizen of the
world by learning languages, and going to the arts academy in
Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. In many ways, her outgoing nature and
fearlessness led to her own future, which included becoming a child
film star in a movie similar to "Free Willy." When she was 17, she
began opera studies in Tbilisi, entered a competition, and won two
years training at the Academy Studio of La Scala (2001-2001), where
she met famed conductor Riccardo Muti.
While still in the Academy, she began to sing in other European
cities, beginning with Barcelona. Then came Bologna, London, Parma,
Madrid and London. She made her Chicago Opera debut in as Olga in
"Eugene Onegin" and her Metropolitan Opera debut as Maddalena in
"Rigoletto."
San Diego is fortunate to see Surguladze making her company debut as
Carmen. Early in her career, she was cautioned not to perform the
demanding role too frequently. Nonetheless, she says, "In every
woman there is a bit of Carmen. I want the audience to see what I
see in her, the strength and also the weakness. She is a woman and
she has heart."
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comments and critiques
Cosí fan tutte
http://www.publico.es/agencias/efe/290328/cosi/fan/tutte/convent/garden/espectaculo/completo
"Cosí fan tutte", en Convent Garden, un espectáculo completo
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| Los intérpretes Charles Castronovo (d), Sally Matthews (2i), Troy Cook y Nino Surguladze (2d), en un momento de la representación de la ópera "Cosí fan tutte" que se podrá contemplar hasta el 17 de febrero en la Royal Opera House de Londres. - EFE |
Por lo que se refiere a los cantantes, la mezzosoprano georgiana Nino Surguldze parece estar hecha para el papel de Dorabella, que interpreta con gracia y soltura, mientras que la soprano británica Sally Matthews añade a una voz perfectamente controlada en las difíciles coloraturas y los continuos saltos de voz una gran sensibilidad de actriz.
http://www.quintessentially.com/insider/author/harry-hughes/
Nino Surguladze’s adorably fickle Dorabella softens pretty quickly though Sally Matthew’s staid Fiordiligi takes a little more time to crack, her lower-register tones full of a perplexed despair as she falls for Ferrando in disguise. Her multi-layered delivery of ‘Come Scoglio’ wins the standing ovation, but the most flavoursome, piquant moment of all is Shimmel’s shame and disgust at the denouement of this most immoral of moral fairytales.
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN
http://www.teatro.org/spettacoli/recensioni/les_contes_d_hoffmann_11509
Torino, teatro Regio, “Les contes d'Hoffmann” di Jacques
Offenbach
LA VITA E' UNA RUOTA CHE GIRA
.... Nino Surguladze è una Nicklausse di grande temperamento e dalla bella voce, usata in modo ottimale soprattutto nel fraseggio intenso e sfumato. Bene anche Manuela Custer, meno carismatica dal punto di vista attoriale.
Così fan tutte, Covent Garden
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2010/02/cosi_fan_tutte_.php
Relaxing into her glamorous boots, Nino Surguladze enjoyed flirting and flouncing as a coquettish Dorabella; 'È amore un ladroncello' proved that she was equally secure at both ends of her register, and displayed her warm, supple tone.
Così fan tutte, Royal Opera House/ Joyce DiDonato, Wigmore Hall
... No one can escape it. Fiordiligi (Sally Matthews) falls for its reflexive charms just when a tone of near-genuine emotion is being reached by Dorabella (Nino Surguladze) over her lover Ferrando (Charles Castronova). ...
... As usual with Miller, even in revival, the acting was outstanding. Surguladze's Dorabella got better and better as her voice and body relaxed into the role and her pouty, bug-eyed, flirty, inner Betty Boop came out.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/01/cosi-fan-tutte-review
... Charles Castronovo and Troy Cook enjoy taking on the heavy metal fan paraphernalia of Ferrando and Guglielmo's disguises, while Sally Matthews and Nino Surguladze partner them perfectly as rock chicks in the finale. ..
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