Paata Burchuladze
Paata Burchuladze (Georgian: პაატა ბურჭულაძე) (born 12 February 1955) is a Georgian operatic bass.
Born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, he graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory and began his operatic career at Tbilisi and Moscow in the late 1970s, with subsequent appearances at Covent Garden (1984), Salzburg Festival under Herbert von Karajan (1987), Metropolitan Opera in the New York City, Verona (Italy), Hamburg (Germany), and other scenes.[1][2]
Burchuladze has been involved in charity work for children through his Iavnana Foundation, which he set up in January 2004. In November 2015, he established the Georgian Development Foundation, a civic movement, which was expected to turn into a political party ahead of the scheduled October 2016 parliamentary election. A March 2016 opinion poll commissioned by the International Republican Institute showed the Foundation not too far behind from the ruling Georgian Dream coalition and the main opposition United National Movement, each garnering 12%, 19%, and 18%, respectively.[3]
Repertory
- Zakaria Paliashvili
- Daisi (Twilight)
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Fidelio (Pizarro)
- Arrigo Boito
- Mefistofele (Mefistofele)
- Alexander Borodin
- Prince Igor (Konchak)
- Charles Gounod
- Faust (Méphistophélès)
- Fromental Halévy
- La Juive (Brogni)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Osmin)
- Don Giovanni (The commendator)
- Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro)
- Requiem
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Boris Godunov (Boris)
- Khovanshchina (Dosifey, Ivan Khovansky)
- Songs and Dances of Death
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- La Gioconda (Alvise Badoero)
- Sergei Prokofiev
- The Fiery Angel (Inquisitor)
- Giacomo Puccini
- Ottorino Respighi
- La Fiamma (L'Esorcista)
- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
- The Golden Cockerel (King Dodon)
- Gioacchino Rossini
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin)
- Iolanta (René)
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Aida (Ramfis, King of Egypt)
- Attila (Attila)
- Don Carlo (Filippo II, Grand Inquisitore)
- Ernani (Don Ruy Gomes de Silva)
- I Lombardi (Pagano)
- La Forza del Destino (Padre Guardiano)
- Luisa Miller (Conte Walter)
- Macbeth (Banco)
- Nabucco (Zaccaria)
- Otello (Ludovico)
- Rigoletto (Sparafucile)
- Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco)
- I Vespri siciliani (Procida)
References
- ↑ "Biography". Paata Burchuladze official website. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ↑ Forbes, Elizabeth (2008). "Burchuladze, Paata". In Macy, Laura Williams. The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. p. 63. ISBN 0195337654.
- ↑ "Opera Singer and His Potential Political Party in IRI-Commissioned Poll". Civil Georgia. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
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