George Andguladze
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| Born | George Andguladze August 6, 1984 Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Occupation | operatic bass |
| Website | georgeandguladze |
George Andguladze (born August 6, 1984) is a Georgian operatic bass.
Born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, he graduated from the Accademia delle voci Verdiane and began his operatic career in Italy at Festival Verdi singing Ferrando from Il Trovatore.
Education
[edit]In 2000/2001 Andguladze won a scholarship offered by the President of the State of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze. In 1999 he finished his studies of piano at Zurab Andjaparidze music school. In 2002, he completed his studies at Meliton Balanchivadze in Tbilisi, where he graduated in Choral and Orchestral Conducting. In 2003 he graduated at the Accademia delle voci Verdiane in Busseto, where he also participated in some events organized by Fondazione Arturo Toscanini. Later he attended a master classes program with Renato Bruson and he graduated in lyrical singing at the conservatory of Reggio nell'Emilia with Mauro Trombetta.[1][2]
Career
[edit]In 2009 Andguladze debuted at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara as Buonafede in Haydn's Il mondo della luna. In 2011 he appeared in Parma in Pergolesi's La serva padrona, that was later performed on the stages of Emilia Romagna. In July 2011 he participated in the Bellagio Festival, Lake Como, once again with La serva padrona. In October of the same year he participated in as Ferrando in Verdi's Il Trovatore, performed as a concert conducted by Michelle Mariotti at the Teatro Verdi in Busseto and Teatro Magniani in Fidenza, inside the season of the Festival Verdi.[3][4][5][6]
Some of his subsequent appearances include:
- Ramfis, Aida (Verdi) - Teatro Regio di Parma, conductor Antonio Fogliani 2012
- Jorg, Stiffelio (Verdi) - Teatro Regio di Parma, conductor Andrea Battistoni 2012
- Monterone, Rigoletto (Verdi) - Teatro Regio di Parma, Festival Verdi, conductor Daniel Oren 2012
- Basso, Requiem (Verdi) - Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini di Jesi 2013
- Escamillo, Carmen (Bizet) - Luglio Musicale Trapanese, director Ivo Lipanovich 2014
- Haushofmeister, Capriccio (Strauss, extract) - Auditorium Rainer III, Montecarlo, conductor Jeffrey Tate 2015
- Escamillo, Carmen - Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center, Moscow, conductor Walter Attanasi 2015
- Il Re, Aida - Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, conductor Marco Boemi 2015
- Escamillo, Carmen - Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Korea, conductor Gaetano Soliman 2015
- Il Re, Aida - Teatro Verdi di Pisa, conductor Marco Boemi 2016
- Bass, Stabat Mater (Rossini) - Basilica Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome, conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti 2016
- Massimiliano, I masnadieri (Verdi) - Teatro Verdi di Busseto, Festival Verdi, conductor Simon Krecic 2016
- Filippo II, Don Carlo (Verdi) - Opera Romana Craiova 2016
- Commendatore, Don Giovanni (Mozart) - Kongresove Centrum, Zlin 2016
- Fiesco, Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) - Opera Romana Craiova 2016
- Ramfis, Aida - Opera Kazan, Festival Shalyapin 2017
- Ramfis, Aida - Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre, conductor Daniel Oren 2017
- Bass, Messa di Requiem (Donizetti) - Basilica Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome, conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti 2017
- Massimiliano, I masnadieri - Teatro Verdi di Busseto, conductor Simon Krecic 2017
- Timur, Turandot (Puccini) - 63° Festival Pucciniano, Torre del Lago, conductor Alberto Veronesi 2017
- Il Re, Aida - Arena di Verona, conductor Andrea Battistoni 2017
- Il Re, Aida - Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, conductor Giampaolo Bisanti 2017
- Oroveso, Norma (Bellini) - Teatro Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno, conductor Daniel Oren 2017
- Zaccaria, Nabucco (Verdi) - Teatro Goldoni di Livorno, conductor Marco Severi 2017
- Sparafucile, Rigoletto - Teatro Regio di Parma, conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa 2018
Repertory
[edit]| Role | Opera | Composer |
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| Oroveso | Norma | Bellini |
| Escamillo | Carmen | Bizet |
| Dulcamara | L'elisir d'amore | Donizetti |
| Bass | Messa di Requiem | Donizetti |
| Buonafede | Il mondo della luna | Haydn |
| Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni | Mozart |
| Bass | Requiem | Mozart |
| Uberto | La serva padrona | Pergolesi |
| Timur | Turandot | Puccini |
| Bass | Petite messe solennelle | Rossini |
| Bass | Stabat Mater | Rossini |
| Haushofmeister | Capriccio | Strauss |
| Il Re | Aida | Verdi |
| Ramfis | Aida | Verdi |
| Filippo II | Don Carlo | Verdi |
| Ferrando | Il trovatore | Verdi |
| Massimiliano | I masnadieri | Verdi |
| Zaccaria | Nabucco | Verdi |
| Bass | Requiem | Verdi |
| Sparafucile | Rigoletto | Verdi |
| Fiesco | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi |
| Jorg | Stiffelio | Verdi |
DVD
[edit]| Year | Opera | Role | Cast | Conductor | Director | Orchestra and chorus | Discography |
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| 2012 | Aida | Ramfis | Carlo Malinverno, Mariana Pentcheva, Susanna Branchini, Walter Fraccaro, Alberto Gazale, Guanqun Yu | Antonio Fogliani | Joseph Franconi Lee | Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio di Parma | Naxos |
| 2012 | Stiffelio | Jorg | Roberto Aronica, Guanqun Yu, Roberto Frontali, Gabriele Mangione, Cosimo Vassallo, Lorelay Solis | Andrea Battistoni | Guy Montavon | Orchestra and Chorus
Teatro Regio di Parma |
Naxos |
| 2017 | Turandot | Timur | Martina Serafin, Amadi Lagha, George Andguladze, Angela De Lucia, Andrea Zaupa, Ugo Tarquini, Tiziano Barontini | Alberto Veronesi | Alfonso Signorini | Orchestra e Coro del Festival Puccini | Mondadori |
References
[edit]- ^ Francesco Bertini. "Rovigo, Aida, 23/10/2015". L'ape musicale (in Italian).
- ^ "George Andguladze, Bass : Schedule". Operabase.
- ^ "Recensione: il trovatore di giuseppe verdi regia direttore michele mariotti". www.teatro.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ ""Deserto sulla terra", Il trovatore a Busseto". Parma Lirica (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ "Recensione de Il Trovatore di Giuseppe Verdi in forma di concerto a Busseto e Fidenza". www.liricamente.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2016-10-21. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ "TROVATORE A BUSSETO in forma di concerto per il VERDI FESTIVAL 14 OTTOBRE 2011 - Recensione di Attila". Studio Nausica Arts (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ "Program Biography - Turandot - Teatro Lirico di Cagliari" (PDF).
- ^ "Discography on ArkivMusic.com".
External links
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- Official website
- Album list at Naxos Records
- Repertoire and Schedule on Operabase
- George Andguladze on Operacritic.com
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