Konstantine Kipiani was born in 1987 into a family of Georgian musicians
and artists. His grandfather Baadur Kipiani was a famous baritone, and his
father Givi Kipiani a member of the ensemble of the Mariinsky Theatre in
St. Petersburg. His grandmother Dudukhana Tserodze was a famous actress,
very popular in the USSR.
He began his vocal journey with traditional Georgian music and later
decided to expand the range of his abilities by studying opera singing
with the internationally renowned Maestro Badri Maisuradze: in 2018 he
entered the Tbilisi Conservatory and in 2019 he made his debut at the
Opera House of the same city, singing Macduff in Verdi's Macbeth.
In 2021, he took third place in the Montserrat Caballé International
Singing Competition in Barcelona and second place in the Opera Crown
International Voice Competition in Tbilisi.
His past engagements include: Don Alvaro in La forza del destino,
Ismaele in Nabucco, Renato in Manon Lescaut, Rodolfo in La
Bohème, Andrea Chénier and Samson et Dalila in
Tbilisi; Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana in Bergen (Grieghallen);
Andrea Chénier, Boito's Nerone and Catalani's La
Wally at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari; and Manon Lescaut at
the Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari.
August 2025