Hibla Gerzmava was born in Pitsunda, Abkhazia on January 6, 1970

People's Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia. Honoured Artist of Russia.

Winner of International vocal competitions, the Grand Prix of the Xth Tchaikovsky Competition.

Hibla 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, the Sofia Opera and Tokio Bunka Kaikan.

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).

Shish Nane, Lament of Exile, Abkhazian / Alisa Gitsba & Hibla Gerzmava

Among the roles she has sung on other stages there are Violetta (“La Traviata” by Verdi), Lucia (“Lucia di Lammermour” by Donizetti), Zerlina (“Don Giovanni” by Mozart) and Parasha (“Mavra” by Strawinsky).

Hibla Gerzmava has taken part in the tours of the Stanislavsky & Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in South Korea and Japan (1997, 2003) and the USA (2002, 2004) and in the tours of the Kazan Opera Theatre in the Netherlands in 2005.

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 Schopfung” by Haydn and the Angel in the “Rappresentazione di Anima et di Corpo” by E. de Cavalieri.

Hibla 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 is the promoter and one of the organizers of the Classical Music Festivals in Sukhum (Abkhazia).

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.

 

Offical Web Site of Hibla Gerzmava

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Khibla Gerzmava
The State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

Khibla Gerzmava
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