Hibla Gerzmava Soprano

Miss Gerzmava graduated from the Vocal Department of the Moscow Conservatory in 1994, and finished her post graduate course at the same Conservatory in 1996. Since 1995 she has been the soloist of the Stanislavsky&Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in Moscow. She has also performed at the stages of the Mariinsky (St.Petersburg), the Champs-Elysées and the Chatelet Theatres (Paris), Il Teatro Communale di Firenze and Royal Opera House Covent Garden.The repertoire she sings at the Stanislavsky&Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre includes such parts as Ludmila (M.Glinka's "Ruslan and Ludmila"), the Swan-Princess (Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"), the Shemakha Queen (Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Golden Cockerel"), Louisa (Prokofiev's "The Betrothal in the Monastery"), Rosina (Rossini's "Il barbiere di Sivigla"), Adina ("L'elisir d'amore" by Donizetti), Mimi and Musetta ("La bohème" by Puccini), la Nimphe ("Daphne" by Gagliano), Adele ("The Fledermaus" by J. Strauss), Violetta ("Traviata" by G.Verdi).She has toured with recitals in Sweden, France, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Greece, the USA, Japan and Turkey. In 2002 and 2003 she took part in the Ludwigsburg Festival (Germany) where she sang Eva in "Die Schöpfung" by Haydn and the Angel in the "Rappresentazione di Anima et di Corpo" by E. de Cavalieri.Miss Gerzmava is often invited to take part in oratorio concerts. She has sung soprano parts in Mozart's Requiem, Mass C minor, Coronation Mass, Vesperae solennes de confessor, in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Verdi's Requiem.Hibla Gerzmava returns to Covent Garden to sing Amelia in Simone Boccanegra. She will also sing Mimi for her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. This year, she will make her Metropolitan Opera debut as Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann.She has recorded several CDs: "Ave Maria" Khibla Gerzmava. DICJ-25008; Khibla Gerzmava sings Russian Romances. DMCC — 26015; Oriental Romances Hibla Gerzmava. DICC — 28006; World Premiere. The Music of Aldo Finzi. Bel Air Music BAM 2029; Musical Assemblies at the Tretiakov's House, Musica Viva, 2002.

Date Last Edited: 24th March 2010