About
In 2020 Nana Dzidziguri will make her debut as SIEGRUNE in “Walküre” in the new RING of the Bayreuth Festival. She portrays CARMENin the new production at the Prague National Opera and ULRICA in “Un ballo in maschera” at the Opera House Bonn.
In the season 17/18 she already succeeded at the Braunschweig State Theatre as EBOLI in Verdi’s “Don Carlo”, as GERTRUD in Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel”, the FIRST MAID in Strauss’ “Elektra” or MASCHA in Shostakovich “Moscow, Cheryomushki”.
Before, the young mezzo-soprano was a ensemble member of the Tiflis State Opera for 3 years. Here she sang major roles such as CARMEN, AMNERIS , as well as roles in the Georgian national operas “Abesalom and Eteri” (as NAANA) and “Daisi” (as NANO) by the composer Sakaria Paliaschwili.
Nana (a niece of Paata Burchuladze) grew up in Georgia and studied opera singing at the State Conservatory V. Sarajishvili in Tbilisi. During her studies, she made her debut at the Batumi State Opera as CARMEN and FENENA in “Nabucco”. While still studying she already worked at the opera studio of the Tbilisi Music Academy, where she performed important roles of her repertoire such as MADDALENA in “Rigoletto”, OLGA in “Eugene Onegin”, MARZELLINE in “Le nozze di Figaro”, THIRD LADY in the “Magic Flute” and LYUBASHA in Rimsky-Korsakov's “Zsar's bride”.
Nana Dzidziguri attended master classes with Montserrat Caballé in Zaragoza, Mirella Freni and Enzo Dara in Modena, and in Tiflis with Badri Maisuradze and Paata Burchuladze. In 2016 she won the first prize at the ‘Voci Verdiani’ International Singing Competition in Busseto and she is winner of the Premio Roma. She was also a finalist in the Montserrat Caballé Singing Competition and the International Singing Competition of the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino at the Opera di Firenze.
In the season 2018/19 Nana Dzidziguri performed Bizet’s CARMEN at the Opera House Wuppertal and also sang here FEDERICA in a new production of Verdi’s “Luisa Miller”. She made her debut as ULRICA in “Un ballo in maschera” at the Theatre Neustrelitz and she sang Dvorak’s STABAT MATER with the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra. At the Wiesbaden State Theatre, she succeeded as MADDALENA in “Rigoletto”.
Nana portrayed SOUFFRANCE in the German premiere of Albéric Magnard’s 'Guercoeur' at the Osnabrück Opera House and she also sings MRS QUICKLY in “Falstaff” here.
In summer 2019 the mezzo soprano was celebrated as ULRICA in “Un ballo in maschera” at the Verdi Festival of the Tbilisi National Opera. An Old Year’s Eve 2019/20 she sings gala concerts with the Filharmonii Podkarpackiej.