Tbilisi Opera premieres ’La Traviata’ with famed guest conductors, launches new 4-year project
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A festive premiere of opera classic La Traviata will mark a new four-year agenda of shows and activities at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre in Georgia's capital today.
The show of the 1853 classic by Giuseppe Verdi features Georgian opera stars Salome Jicia, Otar Jorjikia and Sulkhan Gvelesiani in the title roles.
It features sets prepared specifically for the Tbilisi production at the Rome National Theatre, with costumes created at Madrid's Teatro Real and the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona.
La Traviata premieres at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre in Georgia's capital today. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
Beside the collaboration of the Tbilisi opera troupe with the two famed theatre venues, the production will also feature two acclaimed conductors invited to lead the orchestra.
Walter Attanasi, praised as "one of the most interesting conductors of his generation" by the Dietsch Artists agency, and Alberto Veronesi, Musical Director of the Puccini Festival, will assume their spot in the pit for the bill.
The production was brought together with musical direction by Zaza Azmaiparashvili and is directed by Laurent Gerber. Staged on scenography by Massimo Bellando Randone, it also features costumes by Ester Martin and choreography by State Ballet of Georgia Artistic Director Nina Ananiashvili.
Today's premier marks a new four-year agenda of shows and activities at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
Following the premiere performance, soloists and performers of the Tbilisi theatre will alternate in roles for the four follow-up shows set to run from November 19-30.
The November 18 show of La Traviata marks an advent of new projects at the Tbilisi theatre, which also launched a brand-new program for professional exchange with some of the leading troupes around the world earlier this year.
The full four-year agenda of initiatives will be unveiled in Tbilisi ahead of the La Traviata show on Saturday by Ministry of Culture of Georgia Mikheil Giorgadze and Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre Artistic Director Badri Maisuradze.
Tbilisi's principal opera company has launched a brand-new program for professional exchange with some of the leading troupes around the world with a concert featuring Georgian and German stage artists on Thursday.
Acclaimed opera singer Anita Rachvelishvili will lead a cast of internationally renowned Georgian performers in an opera debut by the country’s award-winning director Levan Tsuladze in Tbilisi later today.
Six years after its major renovation commenced the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre is reopening with a celebratory program of special productions.
Daniel Oren, one of the most acclaimed contemporary conductors, will lead two opera performances at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre next month, as the famed artist is set to become musical director of the venue in 2018.
Georgian soprano Salome Jicia will be part of a star-studded cast of performers in Opera Royal de Wallonie’s bill of La Donna del lago, to be performed for the first time in 15 years at the Belgian venue this spring.
A brand-new international competition for young opera singers will be launched in Tbilisi next month, with an aim of discovering emerging talent judged by famed opera professionals from leading companies.
Georgian and foreign opera stars will be involved in a first Georgian premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s 1857-premiered work Simon Boccanegra at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre next week.
Two Georgian theatre venues will be the destination for the first-ever shows of Italy’s famed Festival Verdi outside the country, as international and local opera stars gear up to shine in the maiden Georgian edition of the annual event in August.