Born in Georgia in 1966, Badri Maisuradze was a pupil of Georgiy Bezhuashvili and graduated from Conservatory of Tbilisi. He also studied as dramatic actor and completed his singing training at the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow under the guidance of Zurab Sotkilava. He attended masterclasses with Carlo Bergonzi, Alfredo Kraus and Joan Sutherland.

His operatic debut was in Tbilisi in 1980 in the title role in Mindia by Taktakishvili. Winner of Vinas Competition in Spain and Björling Competition in Sweden, tooks the beginning of his international career in the 1993 in Liège as Dmitri in Boris Godunov. Afterwards he sang widely in different continents, including such places as New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Singapore and of course different European countries.

Since 1994 was soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he sang different principal roles, including Radamès (Aida), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Alfredo (La Traviata), Pollione (Norma), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera), Andrey (Khovanschina), Alvaro (La forza del destino), Verdi’s Requiem and others. In overall, sang about 40 roles in Russia, Italian, French, German and Georgian works, both classical and contemporary pieces.

He collaborated with such conductors as Mstislav Rostropovich, Valery Gergiev, Seiji Ozawa, Vladimir Fedoseev, Alexander Vedernikov, Daniel Oren, Maurizio Arena, Antonio Guadagno, Marcello Viotti, Carlo Rizzi, performing at the major opera houses of Europe.

In 1999 he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Tchaikovsky’s Mazepa, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, and in 2000 debuted at the Wiener Staatsoper as Cavaradossi in Tosca under the baton of Antonio Guadagno. Invited at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for Il Trovatore, Aida, Nabucco, he appeared at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk District), at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze (Madama Butterfly), at the Teatro Real in Madrid (Aida, Ernani, Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk District), at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Un ballo in maschera). Then he was engaged at the Royal Opera in Stockholm with Verdi’s Otello, at the Canadian Opera Company with Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Giovanna d’arco, Madama Butterfly, and at the Opera Australia for Aida and Samson et Dalila. Recently he appeared at the Semperoper Dresden in Tosca and Don Carlo, at the Royal Opera Stockholm in Don Carlos, at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Bruxelles in Aida. In 2006 season he sang Otello and Tosca in Tallinn and La forza del destino in Vilnius. He then debuted the role of Calaf at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and returned in Moscow to sing Tosca, Un ballo in maschera andin StockholmwithIl Trovatore. He has just debuted as Hermann inTheQueen of Spades at the Bolshoi Theatre and as Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele of Messina, under the baton of Maurizio Arena. In July 2007 he performed the role of Giuliano de’ Medici in Leoncavallo’s I Medici at the Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago. At the Teatro Massimo in Palermo he just sang Il Tabarro. He was in Tel Aviv for Aida with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Zubin Mehta on tour at Opéra de Montpellier and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

His future engagements include Otello (role title) at Opéra in Montpellier.

January 2009