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19:00 | Anita Rachvelishvili (soprano, Georgia) |
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The world famous Georgia-born mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili accompanied by "New Russia" Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Luciano Acocella (Italy) will perform arias and songs from operas by Russian and European conposers: Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Verdi, Cilea, Bizet, Gounod, Puccini, Massenet, Saint-Saëns. Anita Rachelisvili was born in Tbilisi in 1984. She first studied piano at the M. Machavariani School and then voice at the V. Sarajshvili Conservatory with Maestra Manana Egadze. In 2005 she received a study grant from the President of Georgia, M. Saakashvili and in 2007 she won the Paata Burchuladze Scholarship Award. She appeared at the Conservatory as Maddalena in Rigoletto and as Olga in Eugene Onegin. From 2006 to 2007 she was a member of the Tbilisi Opera House and in 2007 she won Second Prize in the Georgian International Voice Competition. In 2007 she was accepted as a member of the Young Artists Program of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan where she appeared in supporting roles in a production of Il Trittico, conducted by Riccardo Chailly and in Pizzetti's L'Assassino della Cattedrale under Donato Renzetti. Other roles in her developing repertoire include Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri, Marina in Boris Godunov, Konchakovna in Prince Igor, Charlotte in Werther, Orfeo in Orfeo and Euridice, Dulcinée in Don Quichotte, Lyubasha in The Tsar's Bride, Amneris in Aida, Cléopatre in Cléopatre of Massenet. She is studying with Maestro David Holst (vocal coach). In last yeas she has gor her debut with Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Metropolitan Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper and others.
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