Nino Surguladze (Mezzo soprano)
Born in Tbilisi (Georgia), Nino Surguladze
studied at the Tbilisi Conservatoire and has won prizes
at a number of prestigious international vocal competitions
including the Concours International de Chant in Toulouse,
the Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona and the BBC
Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Ms Surguladze completed
her training at the Academy Studio of the Teatro alla Scala
(Milan), making her debut as Cuniza in Verdi’s Oberto, conte
di San Bonifacio and joining Riccardo Muti
for the opening of the 2003-04 season as Marie
in a production of Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon. Since then she
has sung many roles at that theatre, among them Meg Page
(Falstaff, conducted by Muti), Olga (Eugene Onegin,
directed by Graham Vick), Idamante (Idomeneo, re di Creta,
conducted by Daniel Harding), Fyodor (Boris Godunov, conducted
by Valery Gergiev), Solokha (Tchaikovsky’s Cherevichki), Siébel
(Faust) and Valencienne (Die Lustige Witwe). Elsewhere
in Italy, Nino has sung as Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann,
Turin), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust, conducted by Michel
Plasson, Teatro Regio, Parma), Dorabella (Così fan tutte)
and Cuniza at the Teatro Carlo Fenice (Genoa), Carmen
in Bari, Macerata, Bologna and Naples and Fenena
(Nabucco) at the Arena di Verona
and in Piacenza. Nino Surguladze made her debut
at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona at the age
of twenty-two as Sonetka (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk).
Other roles at the Liceu have included Federica (Luisa
Miller) opposite Samuel Ramey and Maddalena (Rigoletto),
a role she has also sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New
York, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and the Teatro
Real in Madrid (with Leo Nucci in the title role). Elsewhere
in Spain, Nino enjoyed particular success as Dorabella (opposite
Barbara Frittoli) at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía
in Valencia. In Great Britain she has appeared as Olga
(Eugene Onegin) and Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte)
at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Clara
in Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery
at the Glyndebourne Festival, for which she received great
critical acclaim. In Germany she has also sung as Sesto (La
clemenza di Tito), Nicklausse, Carmen and Idamante
in Hamburg and Polinesso and Ariodante in Ariodante
in Frankfurt. Nino made her debut at the Salzburg Festival
in 2009 as Sinaïde in Moïse et Pharaon (conducted
by Muti), a role she later sang in Rome. In Tokyo,
Surguladze has sung as Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Dorabella
and Carmen and, in the USA, Carmen in San Diego
and Olga in Chicago to great acclaim. Nino Surguladze features
on several DVDs, among them the film Opera (as Maddalena)
with Plácido Domingo. She is also an accomplished actress, having won
a special prize at the Geneva Film Festival for her role
in the Georgian film Waltz on the Petschora.
Nino Surguladze’s recital highlights have included her debut in Rome
(Santa Cecilia) with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Dvořák’s Requiem
in Berlin with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton
of Nicola Luisotti, as well as gala concerts with Bryn Terfel,
José Cura, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras. Recently she appeared
as Carmen in Istanbul (special concert performance dedicated to Leyla
Gencer). Current projects include Nabucco in Milan
and Turin as well as the role of Olga
in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
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