Otar Kunchulia (Bass)
Born in Georgia. In 1986, he graduated from the vocal faculty of the Tbilisi
State Conservatoire. From 1979-89, he was a soloist with the State Pop
Symphony Orchestra of the Georgian State Philharmonic Society. In 1985,
while still a student, he became a soloist with the Tbilisi State Academic
Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
Repertoire
At the Tbilisi State Academic Theatre:
Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Sparafucile (Rigoletto)
Ferrando (Il Trovatore)
Philip (Don Carlo) De
Silva (Ernani) Fiesco (Simon
Boccanegra) Banquo (Macbeth)
Zaccaria (Nabucco) Leporello
(Don Giovanni) Gremin (Eugene Onegin)
King Rene (Iolanta) The Old
Gypsy (Rakhmaninov’s Aleko) The
Inquisitor (Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel)
Mendoza (Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery)
Also in repertoire: Mephistopheles (Faust)
Sarastro (Die Zauberfloete)
Procida (I Vespri Siciliani) Boris
Godunov, Pimen (Boris Godunov) Aleko
(Rakhmaninov’s Aleko)
In 2009, he made his debut at the Bolshoi
Theatre as Sobakin (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's
Bride), in the same year he sang Zaccaria
(Nabucco) and Zuniga
(Carmen).
In 1990, he took part in the festival,
dedicated to Sergei Prokofiev (Essen, Cologne, Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen),
performing parts in The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery
and War and Peace.
From 1982-92, he taught at the Tbilisi State
Conservatory. From 1985-2004, - at the Tbilisi Music College.
He
recorded CD The Best (2006).
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