Paata Burchuladze

Paata Burchuladze

Paata Burchuladze (Georgian: პაატა ბურჭულაძე) (born February 12, 1955) is a Georgian operatic bass.

Born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, he graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory and began his operatic career at Tbilisi and Moscow, with subsequent appearances at Covent Garden (1984), Salzburg Festival under Herbert von Karajan (1987), Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Verona (Italy), Hamburg (Germany), etc.

Repertory

• Zakaria Paliashvili
  • Daisi (Twilight)

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Fidelio (Pizarro)

• Arrigo Boito
  • Mefistofele (Mefistofele)

• Alexander Borodin
  • Prince Igor (Konchak)

• Charles Gounod
  • Faust (Méphistophélès)

• Fromental Halévy
  • La Juive (Brogni)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Osmin)
  • Don Giovanni (The commendator)
  • Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro)
  • Requiem

• Modest Mussorgsky
  • Boris Godunov (Boris)
  • Khovanshchina (Dosifey, Ivan Khovansky)
  • Songs and Dances of Death

• Amilcare Ponchielli
  • La Gioconda (Alvise Badoero)

• Sergei Prokofiev
  • The Fiery Angel (Inquisitor)

• Giacomo Puccini
  • La Bohème (Colline)
  • Turandot (Timur)
• Ottorino Respighi
  • La Fiamma (L'Esorcista)

• Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
  • The Golden Cockerel (King Dodon)

• Gioacchino Rossini
  • Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio)

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin)
  • Iolanta (René)

• Giuseppe Verdi
  • Aida (Ramfis, King of Egypt)
  • Attila (Attila)
  • Don Carlo (Filippo II, Grand Inquisitore)
  • Ernani (Don Ruy Gomes de Silva)
  • I Lombardi (Pagano)
  • La Forza del Destino (Padre Guardiano)
  • Luisa Miller (Conte Walter)
  • Macbeth (Banco)
  • Nabucco (Zaccaria)
  • Otello (Ludovico)
  • Rigoletto (Sparafucile)
  • Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco)
  • I Vespri siciliani (Procida)

External links

• The artist’s official website
• Burchuladze, Paata. In: Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.