Medea Amiranashvili
Medea Petrovna Amiranashvili (Georgian: მედეა ამირანაშვილი, Russian: Медея Петровна Амиранашвили; born October 10, 1930) is a Georgian opera singer (lyric soprano), teacher. People's Artist of USSR (1976).
Medea Amiranashvili | |
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Biography
Medea Amiranashvili was born October 10, 1930, in the village of Shorapani (now in Imereti, Georgia) (according to other sources - in Tbilisi) in a family of opera singers, USSR People's Artist and singer Peter Amiranashvili and Nadezhda Tsomaia.[1]
In 1953 she graduated from the Tbilisi Sarajishvili konservatoriiyu name, where she studied with Alexander Inashvili and Olga Bakhutashvili-Shulgina. In 1951-1954 - Soloist of the opera studio at the Conservatory. Since 1954 - the soloist of Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre[1]
She has performed in concerts and as a chamber singer.
She has toured Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada.[1]
Since 1972, she teaches at the Conservatory of Tbilisi (from 1982 - professor).
From 1991 to 2006 - she was the art director of the Kutaisi Opera House.
Member of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR 7-th convocation.
Family
- Father - Petr Amiranashvili (1907-1976), an opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR (1950)
- Mother - Nadezhda Tsomaia (1904-1973), an opera singer, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1943)
- Brother - David Amiranashvili
- Male - Otar Parulava, sculptor
- Daughter - Marine Parulava, singer.
References
- Музыкальная энциклопедия. Гл. ред. Ю. В. Келдыш. Том 1. А — Гонг. 1072 стб. с илл. М.: Советская энциклопедия, 1973 год
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