Monday, December 3, 2012

Zurab Sotkilava celebrates 75th Birthday

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the 75th Anniversary of the People's Artist of USSR Zurab Sotkilava the press service of the Kremlin reported. "Opera singer fine vocal and dramatic data has, you brilliant soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia has. Deserves the recognition and love of the audience. Opened and capabilities in the field of education. Many students Kreativwerkstatt Zurab Sotkilava already taken place in the profession, their voices sound the best scenes the world, "- said in a congratulatory letter from the President. Opera singer, lyric-dramatic tenor, People's Artist of the USSR and the Georgian SSR Zurab Lavrent'evich Sotkilava born 12 March 1937 in Sukhumi (Abkhazia). In 1973 he made his debut in Sotkilava Bolshoi Theatre as Don Jose in the opera "Carmen". In 1974, the singer was invited to the Bolshoi Theatre. In the Great in the years he served the party Manrico in the opera "Il Trovatore", Radames in "Aida" Richard "Masquerade Ball," Ishmael in "Nabucco" and Othello in the opera by Giuseppe Verdi, Mario Cavaradossi in "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini, Turiddu in "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Pietro Mascagni. His repertoire is and Russian opera "Iolanta" by Tchaikovsky, "Sadko" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Boris Godunov" and "Khovanshchina" by Modest Mussorgsky. Sotkilava was the first performer of the Baron Kalloandro in "Beautiful Miller" Giovanni Paisiello and Arzakan in "The Rape of the Moon" by Otar Taktakishvili. In 1983 he received the State Prize of the Georgian SSR named Paliashvili awarded, in 1998, the Georgian State Prize of the Rustaveli excellent. Sotkilava also winner of the national Russian award "Ovation" in music for the year 2007 in the category "Classical". Sotkilava awarded the Order of Honor (1971), Red Banner of Labor (1976). The singer of the Russian Order "For Services to the Fatherland" IV (2001) and III degree (2007) and two Georgian Order of Honour Award (1997, 2007). RIA Novosti

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