Khatuna Chokhonelidze

soprano

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Georgian soprano Khatuna Chokhonelidze graduated from Kutaisi State Conservatoire, from Professor Gocha Bezhuashvili’s class. In the years 1999-2004 she was a soloist at the Kutaisi State Opera and Ballet Theatre, where she performed such parts as Eteri in Z. Paliashvili’s Abesalom da Eteri, Lela in R. Lagidze’s Lela, Mzia in O. Taktakishvili’s Mindia and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana. In 2002 she sang the title part in Tosca at the Yerevan Opera Theatre.

 

Since 2004 she became a soloist of the Georgian National Opera Theater in Tbilisi where she performed the parts of Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, Leonora in II trovatore, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Aida, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Liu in Turandot, Nedda in Pagliacci and Micaela in Carmen. The artist’s engagements in the 2019/2020 season include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth in a new production at the Georgian National Opera Theater.

 

Khatuna Chokhonelidze cooperated with such conductors as: Zaza Azmaiparashvili, Alberto Veronesi, Gianluca Martinenghi, Vakhtang Kakhidze, Daniel Oren and such stage directors as Franco Zeffirelli, Giancarlo del Monaco, Alfonso Signorini, Victor Garcia Sierra, Gizo Zhordania and Levan Tsuladze.

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Main opera parts:

• L. Cherubini, Medea, Medea

• R. Lagidze, Lela, Lela

• R. Leoncavallo, I pagliacci, Nedda

• P. Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana, Santuzza

• Z. Paliashvili, Abesalom da Eteri, Eteri

• G. Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Madama Butterfly

• G. Puccini, Manon Lescaut, Manon Lescaut

• G. Puccini, Tosca, Floria Tosca

• O. Taktakishvili, Mindia, Mzia

• G. Verdi, Aida, Aida

• G. Verdi, Un ballo in maschera, Amelia

• G. Verdi, Don Carlo, Elisabetta

• G. Verdi, Ernani, Elvira

• G. Verdi, Leonora, La forza del destino

• G. Verdi, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth

• G. Verdi, Simon Boccanegra, Amelia

• G. Verdi, II trovatore, Leonora