Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili's new album "Élégie" will be out on July 9!
The recording echoes her debut album of operatic arias and introduces the audience to a varied repertoire featuring five languages and five very different repertoire traditions.
Read MoreThe Greek National Opera swings back into action and inaugurates the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports initiative “All of Greece, One Culture,” with a solo recital by Anita Rachvelishvili that will take place at the Roman Agora of Athens on 18 July 2020, at 20:30 (GMT+3). The leading mezzo-soprano of our time, with her impressive voice and imposing presence, returns to Greece to sing popular arias from operas by Verdi, Cilea, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, in this evocative archaeological site at the foot of the Acropolis of Athens.
Read MoreMaestro Riccardo Muti expressed his admiration for the Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, who will sing the very demanding role of Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana" with CSY under the baton of Riccardo Muti.
Read MoreBeloved by opera audiences around the world, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana is an impassioned story of tormented love wrapped in music of fervent vibrancy. Riccardo Muti, whose command of 19th-century Italian opera is “virtually without peer” (Bachtrack), leads concert performances of the complete one-act opera with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and an international cast.
Read MoreFinally, cats out of the bags: Anita Rachvelishvili is recording her second CD with Sony Classical. The recording session has taken place in Anita's hometown Tbilisi. For this occasion, a stellar team of professionals came to Georgia.
Read MoreIn 2019, it is the Princess Eboli of Anita Rachvelishvili (her debut in this role) which fascinated the public of Bastille. We have already praised the Georgian mezzo-soprano, her breathtaking power, her vocal beauty and expressiveness in the music of Verdi as of Saint-Saens, Bizet or Rimsky-Korsakov. Eboli is an intimidating, scary role, but Rachvelishvili is dealing with it without any difficulties, she even eclipses Elīna Garanča, who was a splendid Eboli in the fall of 2017.
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