Badri Maisuradze has been appointed as a First Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport
Badri
Maisuradze has held the position of the Artistic Director of Tbilisi Zakaria
Paliashvili Opera and Ballet Theater since November 2016. In 2019, under his
leadership, the Verdi Festival was launched in Georgia.
Badri
Maisuradze has been a consultant for the Busseto Verdi Theater, Puccini
Festival, Korean National Opera, Hong Kong Opera, St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky
Theater, and has also directed the ART FESTIVAL (Prague and Umbria
International Music).
Badri
Maisuradze is a member of the jury of such prestigious international contests
such as: The International Voices of Busseto Competition, Paris Vincenzo
Bellini Competition, Galina Vishnevskaya Vocalist Competition, Melbourne
International Vocalist Competition, Opera Musician Competition Jury. He is the
Chair of the OPERA CROWN Jury of the Tbilisi International Vocalists
Competition.
He
has won numerous prestigious international competitions, including the
Francisco Vinnias International Vocalist Competition (held in Spain) and the
Jus Biorling International Competition (held in Sweden). Badri Maisuradze is a
Knight of the International Order of Friendship.
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Maisuradze's international career began in 1993 at the Royal Opera House in
Liège, and has since worked in leading theaters in the world, including La
Scala Milan, Vienna Staatsoper, Berlin Deutsche Opera, Florence Teatro
Comunale, Madrid Teatro Real, Naples Teatro di San Carlo, Naples Teatro
Massimo, Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, Dresden's Semperopera, Paris
National Opera, St. Petersburg's Maria Theater, Stockholm Royal Opéra, the
Montpellier National Opera, Bolshoi Theater, Canadian Opera, Opera Australia,
Lisbon Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Malta Royal Opera House, the Israeli
Opera, Toulon Opera House, New Zealand Opera, Cape Town Opera, and many others.
In
2004 Badri Maisuradze participated in the opening of Milan's La Scala opera
season. Throughout his long and successful career, he has collaborated with
renowned conductors, including Seiji Odzawa, Zubin Meta, Daniel Oren, Antonio
Guadanio, Marcello Viot, Mauricio Barbachin, Peter Ferenci, Carlo Ritz, Arvo
Volmer, Alexander Vedernikov, Mauricio Nacionalio, Mauricio, Mauricio Benin,
Giorgio Morand, Nello Santi, Lawrence Foster, Jansug Kakhidze, Givi A.
maiparashvili, Odyssey Dimitriadi and so on.
Badri
Maisuradze received his education at the Shota Rustaveli State University of
Theater and Cinema and Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatory. Later he
continued his studies in Milan and Moscow.
He
speaks Georgian, Italian, Russian and English.
