Nino Surguladze - Olga
The
Georgian mezzo Nino Surguladze studied at
the Tbilisi Conservatory of Music and won prizes in prestigious international
voice competitions including the Concours International de Chant de la Ville de
Toulouse, the Francisco Vinas Competition in Barcelona, and the BBC Cardiff
Singer of the World. After that she moved to Italy where she specialized at the
Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Mrs Surguladze made her debut as
Cuniza in Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio
and joining Riccardo Muti for the opening of the 2003-04 season as Marie in
Rossini’s Moise et Pharaon at the Teatro alla Scala. Since then, she has
begun a prolific collaboration with the Teatro alla Scala where she performed:
Meg Page in Falstaff, Muti conducting; Olga in Evgenij Onegin,
Graham Vick directing; Idamante in Idomeneo, Daniel Harding conducting;
Fedor in Boris Godunov , Valery Gergiev conducting; Solokha in
Tchaikovksy’s Tcherevichki; Siebel in Faust; Die Lustige Witwe
(Valencienne); and more recently Fenena in Nabucco. Elsewhere in
Italy, Mrs. Surguladze has sung Les Contes d’Hoffman (Niklausse)
at the Regio in Turin, La Damnation de Faust (Marguerite )under the baton
of Michel Plasson at the Teatro Regio in Parma, as well as Carmen at the
Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, at the Macerata Opera Festival, at the Comunale in
Bologna and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Nabucco at the Arena di
Verona.
In the past seasons she also sang: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Sonjetka),
Luisa Miller (Federica) opposite Samuel Ramey and Rigoletto
(Maddalena) at the Gran Theatre de Liceu in Barcelona; Dorabella in Così Fan
Tutte (opposite Barbara Frittoli) at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in
Valencia; Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the
Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and at the Teatro Real in Madrid (with Leo Nucci
in the title role); Evgenij Onegin (Olga) and Così fan Tutte at
the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London; Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a
Monastery (Clara) at the Glydnebourne Festival; La Clemenza di Tito
(Sesto), Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Carmen and Idamante in Idomeneo in
Hamburg; Ariodante (Polinesso; Ariodante) in Frankfurt. Mrs. Surguladze
made her debut at the Salzburg Festival singing Sinaïd in Moïse et Pharaon
under the baton of Muti, she then starred in Così Fan Tutte, Carmen and
Madama Butterfly (Suzuki) in Tokyo, Evgenij Onegin (Olga) in
Chicago, Carmen in San Diego.
Future plans include:
Roméo et Juliette at the Arena in Verona; Aida at the Opéra Royal
de Wallonie in Liège and a recital in London.
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