Biography
Graduated from the Tbilisi State Vano Sarajishvili Conservatoire in 2013. In Conservatoire opera studio he sang Tamino (Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte), Alfredo (Verdi’s La Traviata), Nemorino (Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore), Duke of Mantua (Verdi’s Rigoletto), Lenski (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin).In 2011 he became a prize-winner at the International Lado Antаneli Competition (Tbilisi). He also took part in the young singers’ festival An International Opera Workshop in Sigriswil (Switzerland) and in 2012 he attended master-classes conducted by Renato Bruson and Edda Moser (Italy).
Since 2013 he has become a soloist of the Georgian State Academic Paliashvili Opera and Ballet Theatre, where he debuted as Don Alvaro in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino. In 2015 he sang parts of Malkhaz (Paliashvili’s Daisi) and Don Jose (Bizet’s Carmen) in the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre’s productions. Otar Jorjikia also performed tenor part in Haydn’s oratorio The Creation with the Georgian National Philharmonic Orchestra, under Davit Kintsurashvili.
Repertoire
Duke (Rigoletto)Don Alvaro (La forza del destino)
Ernani (Ernani)
Alfredo (La Traviata)
Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Cavaradossi (Tosca)
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
His European debut took place back in 2004 at the Raimund Theater (Vienna) as part of the educational programme Performing Arts Studios. Since then the singer has appeared at the Teatro all’Antica (Sabbioneta, Italy), the Teatro Regio (Parma), the Teatro Comunale (Bologna), the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi (Busseto).
Highlights of the season 2016/17 include his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre singing in Simon Boccanegra with Placido Domingo, conducted by Valery Gergiev, and winning first prize in the 2016 Galina Vishnevskaya International Opera Singers Competition.
During the season 2017/18, Otar made house debuts with Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse (Macduff, Macbeth), Opera Australia (Don José, Carmen) and Polish National Opera (Duke, Rigoletto). On the concert platform, he performed in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Orchestre National de Lyon under Mo. Alan Gilbert.
In the season 2018/19, he appeared in Attila and Simon Boccanegra at the Mariinsky Theatre by invitation of Valery Gergiev.
All in group
- Yaroslav Abaimov
- Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
- Pietro Adaíni
- Migran Agadzhanyan
- Mikhail Agafonov
- Michele Angelini
- Liparit Avetisyan
- Hovhannes Ayvazyan
- Kristian Benedikt
- Peter Berger
- Giorgio Berrugi
- Francisco Brito
- Javier Camarena
- Andrea Caré
- Arturo Chacón-Cruz
- Shota Chibirov
- Marco Ciaponi
- John Daszak
- Bekhzod Davronov
- Freddie De Tommaso
- Timofei Dubovitsky
- Valentin Dytiuk
- Sergio Escobar
- Yusif Eyvazov
- Walter Fraccaro
- Ruzil Gatin
- Massimo Giordano
- Davide Giusti
- Diego Godoy
- Dmitry Golovnin
- Vittorio Grigolo
- Mikhail Gubsky
- Brenden Gunnell
- Ivan Gyngazov
- Teodor Ilincai
- Brian Jagde
- Otar Jorjikia
- Murat Karahan
- Tuomas Katajala
- Dmitry Korchak
- Rame Lahaj
- Matteo Lippi
- Josh Lovell
- Aquiles Machado
- Eduard Martynyuk
- Riccardo Massi
- Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov
- Maxim Mironov
- Martin Muehle
- Alexander Murashov
- Tomislav Mužek
- Alexei Neklyudov
- Yaramir Nizamutdinov
- Dovlet Nurgeldiyev
- Pene Pati
- Pavel Petrov
- Saimir Pirgu
- Mikhail Pirogov
- Antonio Poli
- Sergey Polyakov
- Andrei Popov
- Dmytro Popov
- Sergei Radchenko
- Bernard Richter
- Iván Ayón Rivas
- Gaston Rivero
- Edgardo Rocha
- Sergey Romanovsky
- Boris Rudak
- Giovanni Sala
- Juan Sancho
- Sergei Semishkur
- Shanul Sharma
- Yijie Shi
- Sergei Skorokhodov
- Mert Süngü
- Kenneth Tarver
- Alexei Tatarintsev
- Alexander Trofimov
- Fabio Trümpy
- Pavel Valuzhin
- Vincent Wolfsteiner
- Azer Zada
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