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
Liège and Donna Elvira at the Rome Opera and at the Teatro Comunale di
Bologna.
After her debut in 2015 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with Il
viaggio a Reims (Contessa di Folleville), she then returned there to
sing the title role 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 (Matilde), and Semiramide
(title role). Other important Rossini appearances include: Tancredi
(Amenaide) and Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra (Elisabetta) at
the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Semiramide in Nancy, Otello
(Desdemona) in Liège and Guillaume Tell (Mathilde) in Palermo.
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 in Marseille), L’elisir d’amore
in Seattle, Maria Stuarda (Elisabetta) at the Zurich Opernhaus and
she was one of the protagonists in Bastarda, Donizetti’s
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 Liège, Giovanna
d’Arco in Brussels, La Traviata at the Deutsche Oper in
Berlin, in Tbilisi and at the Sferisterio in Macerata, and Otello (Desdemona)
in Trieste. In recent years, Salome Jicia has also approached 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; Il Turco in Italia (Fiorilla)
at the Opéra de Lausanne, Anna Bolena (title role) at the Teatro
Verdi di Trieste and the world premiere of Edith by Maurizio
Fabrizio, in the role of Edith Piaf, at the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova.
Among others, her concert engagements include: Rossini's Stabat
Mater at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony at the MiTo Settembre Musica in Turin.
Her future engagements include: Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra at
the Massimo in Palermo; Guillaume Tell at the Liège Opera and
Rossini's Stabat Mater in Gateshead.
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.
October 2024