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Eteri Gvazava - Soprano

Eteri Gvazava was born in Omsk (Siberia). After her studies at the Conservatory of Novosibirsk, she perfected at the Bachakademie of Stuttgart and graduated at the Hochschule für Musik of Karlsruhe.
In June 1997 she won the International Voice Competition "Neue Stimmen" sponsored by the Bertelsmann Foundation. In the same year the debut on stage in Italy with the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan Tutte at the Nuovo Piccolo Teatro di Milano, the last production of the famous Italian Director, Giorgio Strehler. "... a Siberian Fiordiligi, Eteri Gvazava, which is impossible not to fall in love. The purity, nobility, the emotional intensity of this girl are already extraordinary ...", writes the critic of Corriere della Sera after the première. A success that is renewed in many replications (43 between January and March 1998), rearranged in several other tours in opera theaters in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Japan and Russia.

Another important stage in the biography of the young soprano is the Traviata à Paris, musical event of exceptional media impact (Emmy Award in the USA and the Prix Italy 2001), with José Cura in the role of Alfredo, conducted by Zubin Mehta, directed by Joseph Patroni Griffi and broadcasted worldwide in June 2000 (recorded on CD for Teldec and published on DVD).
In 2003 she takes part in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and sings Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien / Debussy and II Symphony / Mahler conducted by Claudio Abbado. Again with Abbado in 2004 in the theatres of Ferrara and Modena in Cosi fan Tutte directed by Mario Martone, direction repeated in 2008 at the Teatro Colon in La Coruña for the "Mozart Festival".
In these years the presence of Eteri Gvazava is intense especially in Italy, but also in the theatres of Austria and Germany, where she sings the roles of Tatjana, Liù, Gretel, Micaela, Mimì, Donna Elvira and Rusalka.

For Italy, we remember Fiordiligi at Teatro Comunale di Bologna (conducted by Daniele Gatti) and at Malibran in Venezia (conducted by Leopold Hager); Tatjana - congenial role for language and temperament - and Fiordiligi at Filarmonico di Verona, Pamina at Teatro Massimo di Palermo (conducted by Julia Jones, directed by R.Andò); Violetta - sold out for every play - at Teatro Regio di Torino (directed by Marco Armiliato); Vrenchen in A Village Romeo and Juliet / Delius at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (conducted by Gerard Korsten, directed by Stephen Medcalf); Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Comunale di Firenze (conducted by Zubin Mehta, directed by Jonathan Miller), at Teatro Carlo Felice di Genoa (conducted by Julia Jones, directed by Robert Carsen) and at Teatro Piccinni di Bari.

In concert she sings at the RAI in Torino conducted by Jeffrey Tate (Schumann / Faustszenen) and by Eliauh Inbal (Mahler / II Symphony); at the Basilica di San Marco in Venezia directed by Isaac Karabtchewsky (The Creation); in Palermo with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and in Bolzano with the Haydn Orchestra (Orchestra Lieder by Berg and Strauss); again the II Symphony / Mahler at Teatro Massimo di Palermo (directed by Roberto Abbado) and at the inauguration of the 2007/08 concert season of the Teatro Verdi di Trieste; also in Trieste German Requiem / Brahms conducted by Dan Ettinger.

The Russian romances for voice and piano of fellows Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov (but also lieder by Strauss, Berg, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann and Wolf) have been proposed in many recitals at major Italian musical institutions and at the Rheingau Festival in Germany.

Plans for 2010/11 include various recitals and concerts.

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