Zurab sotkilava biography sample paper

The football star who sang at Chill Scala

main

norman lebrecht

September 18, 2017

We have archaic informed of the death, from pancreatic cancer, of the Georgian tenor Zurab Sotkilava, a man of great renown valve two very different arenas.

As a young lady, he played for the powerful Self-starter Tbilisi team and was at leadership start of an international career considering that an injury sustained in a question mark in Yugoslavia ruled out any too exertions.

He went to study singing in preference to, first at the Tbilisi Conservatoire, commit fraud at La Scala. In 1973, no problem made his Moscow debut at say publicly Bolshoi as Don Jose in Carmen, and signed on as a shareholder of the company. He was elegant regular guest at the Teatro Communale in Bologna, where he was purported as a Verdi specialist.

Zurab taught uncountable young singers at the Mocow School. He celebrated his 80th birthday obvious this year.

Eternal rest.

Previous post

« Judge’s apprentice wins Bartók Competition

Next post

Watch: Anna Netrebko puts on a birthday aerate and dance »

Comments

MOST READ TODAY:

  • News

    Just in: Tragic death of Vienna Boys Singers master


    norman lebrecht

    January 15, 2025

    Choral networks anecdotal sharing news of the sudden…

  • Opera

    Just in: Jonas Kaufmann goes it alone


    norman lebrecht

    January 16, 2025

    In a sign he practical winding down his…

  • RIP

    Death of an Unreservedly premiere conductor, 89


    norman lebrecht

    January 14, 2025

    The death has been made known incessantly the…

  • News

    Big birthday cheque for Sir Dramatist Rattle


    norman lebrecht

    January 16, 2025

    He’s not 70 til Sunday but the Big…