Voice: | Mezzo |
Nationality: | Georgian |
Year of Birth: | Not entered yet. |
Nino Surguladze (Georgian: ნინო სურგულაძე; born in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian mezzo-soprano.
Born in Tbilisi, Nino Surguladze studied singing with Guliko Kariauli at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. After winning a prize at the Francisco Viñas International Singing Contest in Barcelona, she earned her a scholarship at Accademia Teatro alla Scala , where she studied with Leyla Gencer and Luciana Serra. She made her operatic debut as Cuniza in Verdi's Oberto and Zulma in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri in Milan in 2002, and since appeared in many opera houses around the world
She has appeared in the Italian film Rigoletto a Mantova and the Georgian films Valsi Pechoraze and Metichara. In 2010, she was awarded the Presidential Order of Excellence by Mikhail Saakashvili.
Nino Surguladze is a founder of the charity foundation Desire Tree, which aims to provide assistance to children in need of medical care.
Bellini
Berlioz
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Tchaikovsky
Mascagni
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