Nino Surguladze
mezzo sopran
Full Biography
Born in Tblisi, Georgia, Nino Surguladze studied at the Tiblisi Georgia Conservatory of Music, taking part in numerous musicals and concerts in Georgia and abroad. She has won prizes in a number of prestigious international voice competitions including the Concours International de Chant de la Ville de Toulose, the Francisco Vinas Competition of Barcelona, and the BBC Singer of the World Competition. Surguladze is also an accomplished actress, having won a special prize at the Geneva Film Festival for her role in the Georgian film Walsi pechoraze.
She made her debut in Parma with Dannatine di Faust (Margherita) with M. Michel Plasson.
In 2001 she joined the Academy Studio of La Scala and since has performed roles in productions of Salome, Boris Godunov, Verdis Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio, L Italiana in Algeri, Donizettis Ugo Conte di Parigi, and has joined Riccardo Muti for the opening of the 2003-04 season in a production of Rossinis Moise et Pharaon. She sang at the 2003 Christmas concert, under the baton of Maestro Muti.
Other appearances have included the role of Meg in Falstaff and a new production of Ariodante in Frankfurt (Polinesso). She received great public acclaim for the roles of Fenena in Nabucco, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte (Genoa), Suzuki in M. Butterfly (Tokyo), Maddalena in Rigoletto (Barcelona), and Idamante in Idomeneo (Milan).
Surguladze performed Gli Stivaletti and E. Onegin in Milan and appeared in a new production of E. Onegin at Covent Garden with P. Jordan. She received wide critical acclaim for her performances of Betrothal in a Monastery at the Glyndebourne Festival and she made her debut with the role of Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito and Idamante in Idomeneo in Hamburg. She sang Damnation de Faust at the Teatro Regio of Parma, Carmen in Bari and in a new production of I racconti di Hoffmann in Hamburg and in Parma with scenes from Faust of Schumann. During the last season, she made her debut in Rome (Santa Cecilia) with Beethovens Ninth Symphony and also performed Dvoraks Requiem in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Nicola Luisotti.
She made her American debut in Chicago in Eugene Onegin obtaining big reviews from the public and critics. She sang Ariodante in Frankfurt,Carmen in Bari, Graz, and Neaples.
In the 2007 summer opera festival at the Arena she performed the part of Fenena in Nabucco
Recently she obtained big success in a new production of Vedova allegra at Teatro alla Scala.
An additionally big success with Cosi fan tutte in Valencia singing Dorabella with Barbara Frittoli
Future Engagements include: Carmen in Bologna Barcelona and San Diego, Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) at Suntory Hall in Tokyo and at Covent Garden and she will be at La Scala again with Faust of Gonoud and Les Contes d Hoffamnn Niklaus (Jacques Offenbach).
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Composer |
Work |
Role |
| Donizetti Gaetano | Ugo Conte di Parigi | Luigi V |
| Bizet Georges | Carmen | Carmen |
| Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus | La Clemenza di Tito | Sesto |
| Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus | Idomeneo | Idamante |
| Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus | clemenza di tito | Sesto |
| Rossini Gioachino | Moise et Pharaon ou Le Passage de la Mer Rouge | Sinaide |
| Haendel Georg Friedrich | Ariodante | Ariodante |
| Tschaikowsky Peter Iljitsch | Cherevichki | Solocha |
| Verdi Giuseppe | Falstaff | Mrs. Meg Page |
| Verdi Giuseppe | Nabucco | Fenena |
| Verdi Giuseppe | Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio | Cuniza |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Rigoletto | Maddalena |
| Berlioz Hektor | Dannatione di Faust | Margherita |
| Franz Lehar | La vedova allegra | Valanciene |
| Donizetti Gaetano | La Favorita | Leonora |
| Verdi | Luisa Miller | Federica |
| Jacques Offenbach | Les Contes d Hoffmann | Niklaus |
German
Die Mezzosopranistin Nino Surguladze stammt aus
Tiflis, wo sie Gesang und Schauspiel studierte. Für den georgischen
Film Valsi Pechoraze wurde sie beim Film-Festival in Genf
ausgezeichnet. Ebenfalls ausgezeichnet wurde sie als Preisträgerin
renommierter Wettbewerbe (»Concours International de Chant de la
Ville de Toulose«, »Francisco Viñas« in Barcelona). 2001 kam sie ans
Opernstudio der Mailänder Scala, an der sie in Produktionen wie
L'Italiana in Algeri, Donizettis Ugo Conte di Parigi, Verdis Oberto
Conte di San Bonifacio, Meg Page (Falstaff), Boris Godunow und
Salome. Unter Riccardo Muti wirkte sie in der Eröffnungspremiere der
Saison 2003/04 in Rossinis Moïse et Pharaon mit. Außerdem sang sie
an der Scala Idamante (Idomeneo), Olga (Eugen Onegin) und Solocha in
Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowskis Pantöffelchen.
Als Polinesso bzw. in der Titelpartie von Georg Friedrich Händels
Ariodante war sie an der Oper Frankfurt zu Gast. Als Dorabella (Così
fan tutte) gastierte sie am Teatro Carlo Felice in Genua, als Sextus
in Peter Konwitschnys Hamburger Inszenierung von La clemenza di
Tito. Hinzu kommen Adalgisa (Norma) am Teatro Comunale in Bologna,
Fenena (Nabucco) in der Arena di Verona, Federica (Luisa Miller) und
Maddalena (Rigoletto) am Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, Muse /
Nicklausse (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) am Teatro Regio Turin und in
Hamburg, Olga an der Lyric Opera of Chicago und am Royal Opera House
Covent Garden (unter Philippe Jordan), Marguerite (La Damnation de
Faust) am Teatro Regio in Parma, schließlich Clara in Sergei
Prokofjews Verlobung im Kloster beim Glyndebourne Festival. Als
Carmen war sie in Neapel und Bari zu Gast, und als Carmen gab sie –
in Stefan Herheims Inszenierung – in der Saison 2006/07 ihr Debut an
der Grazer Oper.
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Links
IMDB.com
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839620/.
BBC Singers of the world 2003
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/singeroftheworld03/epostcards/georgia.shtml
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