Salome Jicia was born in Georgia where she studied singing following her
graduating in piano. She furthered her studies at the Accademia di Santa
Cecilia in Rome under Renata Scotto and at the Rossini Opera Festival
Academy in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda.
She is the winner of several prizes in prestigious international
competitions, including: first prize at the Lado Ataneli International
Singing Competition (2012) and first prize and the Maria Fołtyn prize for
the best interpretation of a Moniuszko work at the Stanisław Moniuszko
Competition in Warsaw (2016).
A gifted Mozart singer, Salome Jicia made her debut with La finta
semplice (Rosina) for OperaLombardia. In Mitridate re di Ponto
she sang Aspasia (Tbilisi Opera House), Ismene (Armel Music Festival in
Budapest) and Sifare, a role with which she made her debut at the Royal
Opera House Covent Garden in London, where she later returned as Pamina in
Die Zauberflöte and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. At the
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow she was the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro,
Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Vitellia in La clemenza di
Tito, a role she also sang at the Opéra de Lausanne. In Don
Giovanni she sang Donna Anna at the Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liege
and Donna Elvira at the Rome Opera and at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
After making her debut in 2015 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
with Il Viaggio a Reims (Contessa di Folleville), she then
returned there as the protagonist of La Donna del lago, directed
by Damiano Michieletto and conducted by Michele Mariotti (a production
also revived at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège) and for Torvaldo
e Dorliska (Dorliska), Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra and Semiramide.
Other important Rossini appearances include Tancredi (Amenaide)
and Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra (Elisabetta) at the Théâtre de
la Monnaie in Brussels; Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra at the
Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Semiramide at the Opéra de Nancy; Otello
(Desdemona) at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Il Turco in
Italia (Fiorilla) at the Opéra de Lausanne and Guillaume Tell (Mathilde)
at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and at
the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.
Increasingly established in the bel canto repertoire, she has performed:
La Straniera (Alaide) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bianca
e Fernando (Bianca) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Norma
(in the title role in Lausanne, Hamburg and Cologne and as Adalgisa at the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Marseille), L'elisir d'amore in
Seattle, Maria Stuarda (Elisabetta) at the Zurich Opernhaus, Anna
Bolena (title role) at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste and she was one
of the protagonists of Bastarda, a Donizetti pastiche with music
from the so-called “Tudor trilogy” staged at the Monnaie in Brussels under
the baton of Francesco Lanzillotta and directed by Olivier Fredj.
She has also performed several Verdi titles, including: I lombardi
alla prima crociata (Giselda) in Liege, Giovanna d'Arco in
Brussels, La Traviata at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, in Tbilisi
and at the Sferisterio in Macerata, Otello (Desdemona) in Trieste.
In recent years, Salome Jicia has also performed in such titles as L'amico
Fritz (Suzel) at the Maggio Fiorentino, La bohème (Mimì) at
the Tbilisi Opera, Tosca in Nancy; Turandot (Liù) at the
Teatro Real in Madrid; and Maurizio Fabrizio's Edith Piaf in the
world premiere at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
Among others, her concert engagements include: Rossini's Stabat
Mater at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and in Gateshead and
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the MiTo Settembre Musica in Turin.
Her future engagements include Il Trovatore (Leonora) at the
Teatro delle Muse in Ancona and Falstaff (Alice) at the Opéra de
Marseille.
Salome Jicia works regularly with conductors such as of Michele
Mariotti, Francesco Lanzillotta, Stefano Montanari, Donato Renzetti,
Maurizio Benini, Daniel Oren, Riccardo Frizza, Fabio Luisi, Nicola
Luisotti, Riccardo Minasi, Evelino Pidò, Jérémie Rhorer, Christophe
Rousset, Daniele Rustioni, Michele Spotti, Tugan Sokhiev. Much appreciated
for the intensity of her interpretations, Salome Jicia has worked with
directors such as Hugo De Ana, Olivier Fredj, Davide Livermore, David Mc
Vicar, Damiano Michieletto, Mario Martone, Emilio Sagi, Graham Vick, Jean
François Sivadier.
May 2025