Eteri Gvazava

Eteri Gvazava is a soprano from Siberia who have had a magnificent rise to international popularity within the last three years from the twentieth hundred years. She actually is half Russian and, from her father’s aspect, half Georgian. The half that derives from that little republic in the Caucasian Mountains can be, she says, the component of her that’s “warmer, and even more passionate, like Italians.” As her musical curiosity and abilities became apparent, she researched on the Conservatory of Novosibirsk, that was an right away train trip from her hometown of Omsk. Her instructor was Nina Lubyanovskaya, regarded by Eteri as her “genuine master, such as a mom for us performers, offered by any hour.” After graduating from the Conservatory in 1995, she pursued additional studies on the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe, Germany, with Maria Venuti. She also intensively researched the German vocabulary and shaped friendships. One friend pianist and accompanist Peter Nelson, recommended Eteri was prepared for involvement in international tournaments. She moved into the “Neue Stimmen” (“New Voices”) Competition placed on by Bertelsmann, the main record and reserve publishing concern, earning first prize using the well-known aria “Sì, mi chiamano Mimì” from Puccini’s La Bohème. In 1997, she unexpectedly received a telephone call from a realtor providing to represent her. Behind the moments, pianist Charles Spencer, an acclaimed accompanist, got noticed her abilities. Spencer, who frequently worked with main singers such as for example Christa Ludwig and Gundulka Janowitz, have been viewing Gvazena’s profession since prior to the competition, and recommended her to maker Giorgio Strehler. Stehler was focusing on an unusual task: To arrange, from scratch, a business of performers for his personal Piccolo Teatro to execute Mozart’s Così lover tutte. He preferred unknown performers of freshness, time for you to devote four complete months to training and rehearsals in the component, and having the physical appeal implied in Mozart’s tale of two pairs of youthful enthusiasts. Gvazava auditioned for the component, but believed it proceeded to go poorly-she was sick that day. Nevertheless, Carlo de Incontrera, who went to the audition in Berlin, believed the tone of voice was fascinating and expressive and recognized the problems had been due to disease. He offered her another chance, then recognized her as “an ideal Fiordiligi.” Rehearsals started in Dec 1997. Strehler passed away on Christmas Day time. Nevertheless, the display went on. It had been booked in the Nuovo Piccolo Teatro of Milan and went for forty-three shows, an extraordinary record for an opera. It had been broadcast by Italian tv, then somewhere else in European countries and in Japan. Gvazava following acquired a posture in the opera theatre of Bielefeld, in north Germany. Here she’d learn the regular of the repertory company and find out new operas. Although end of 2000, she sang Tatyana (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), Liù (Puccini’s Turandot), Micaëla (Bizet’s Carmen), Gretel (Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel), Donna Elvira (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), as well as the name part in Dvorak’s Rusalka. In the mean time, another producer having a big idea became thinking about Gvazava. Andrea Andermann, who experienced produced the worldwide hit television creation “Tosca, in the changing times and locations of Tosca,” wanted to mount an identical creation of Verdi’s La Traviata. He involved Gvazava to sing Violeta in his “Traviata á Paris,” to become broadcast live more than a two-day period in June 2000 to a global audience on systems reaching more than a billion homes. Zubin Mehta would carry out, and the places would be around the roads of Paris. Her co-stars had been José Cura as Alfredo, and Riggiero Raimondi as Germont, pére. Within per month of this unparalleled international publicity, Teldec released an sound CD from the creation. Gvazava in addition has released a Teldec documenting of the Russian tune recital.