Medea Amiranashvili

Medea Petrovna Amiranashvili (Georgian: მედეა ამირანაშვილი, Russian: Медея Петровна Амиранашвили; born October 10, 1930) is a Georgian opera singer (lyric soprano), teacher. People's Artist of USSR (1976).

Medea Amiranashvili
Born (1930-10-10) 10 October 1930
Shorapani, Zestafoni Municipality, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR

Biography

Medea Amiranashvili was born October 10, 1930, in the village of Shorapani (now in Imereti, Georgia) (according to other sources - in Tbilisi) in a family of opera singers, USSR People's Artist and singer Peter Amiranashvili and Nadezhda Tsomaia.[1]

In 1953 she graduated from the Tbilisi Sarajishvili konservatoriiyu name, where she studied with Alexander Inashvili and Olga Bakhutashvili-Shulgina. In 1951-1954 gg. - Soloist of the opera studio at the Conservatory. Since 1954 - the soloist of Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre[1]

She has performed in concerts and as a chamber singer.

She has toured Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada.[1]

Since 1972, she teaches at the Conservatory of Tbilisi (from 1982 - professor).

From 1991 to 2006 - she was the art director of the Kutaisi Opera House.

Member of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR 7-th convocation.

Honorary Citizen of Kutaisi.[2]

Family
  • Father - Petr Amiranashvili (1907-1976), an opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR (1950)
  • Mother - Nadezhda Tsomaia (1904-1973), an opera singer, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1943)
  • Male - Otar Parulava, sculptor
  • Daughter - Marine Parulava, singer.

References
  1. Музыкальная энциклопедия. Гл. ред. Ю. В. Келдыш. Том 1. А — Гонг. 1072 стб. с илл. М.: Советская энциклопедия, 1973 год
  2. Biography Medea Amiranashvili
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