Hibla Gerzmava (Soprano)
Born on January 6, 1970 in Pitsunda (USSR). Graduated from the Moscow State Conservatoire in 1994 (teachers - professor Irina Maslennikova, professor Evgenia Arefieva), and completed the post-graduate course of the Moscow Conservatoire in 1996. Since 1995 she has been a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow academic Music Theater (Stanislavsky Opera).
Hibla Gerzmava graduated from the Vocal Department of the Moscow Conservatory
in 1994, and finished her postgraduate course there in 1996. Since 1995 she has
been the soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in
Moscow.
She has also performed at the stages of the Mariinsky Theatre in St
Petersburg, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris,
Teatro Comunale di Firenze in Florence, the Sofia Opera and at the Bunka Kaikan
in Tokyo.
The repertoire Hibla sings at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko
Musical Theatre includes such parts as Adina (L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti),
Mimi (La bohème by Puccini), Violetta (La traviata by Verdi), Lucia (Lucia di
Lammermoor by Donizetti), Antonia/Olympia/Giulietta (Les contes d’Hoffmann by
Offenbach).
In 2010, her performance of Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor brought
her the highest Russian theatrical award — the Golden Mask, as well as Casta
Diva Critics Award and the Moscow Government Award for achievement and
contribution to the world of arts and culture.
Hibla Gerzmava has appeared 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 in Germany where she sang Eva in Die
Schöpfung (The Creation) by Haydn and the Angel in the Rappresentatione di anima
e di corpo by Emilio de Cavalieri.
Hibla Gerzmava is often invited to take part in oratorio concerts. She has
sung soprano parts in Mozart’s Requiem, Great Mass in C minor, Coronation Mass,
Vesperae solennes de confessore, in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Verdi’s
Requiem.
In March 2008, Hibla Gerzmava made her Covent Garden debut as Tatiana in
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and appeared there again in 2009 as Mimi in
Puccini’s La bohème, coming back to the Royal Opera House in January 2012 as
Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. She sung the part of Mimi for her debuts at
the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in Rome
in May-June 2011.
In September-October 2010, Hibla made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the
parts of Stella and Antonia in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, and in
November-December 2011 she went back there to sing Mimi in Franco Zeffirelli’s
production of La bohème.
She made her triumphal debut on the stage of Palais Garnier at the Opéra
National de Paris as Vitellia in Willy Decker’s production of Mozart’s La
Clemenza di Tito in September-October 2011. She also sung at the BBC Proms
Opening Night in July 2011 in Janáček’s Glagolithic Mass conducted by Jiří
Bělohlávek and took part in the Mariinsky Theatre’s tour to Japan in February
2011, performing the part of Liù in Puccini’s Turandot at the NHK Hall in
Tokyo.
In 2013, Hibla Gerzmava will further appear in Simon Boccanegra at the Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden, in Turandot at Metropolitan Opera and in La Clemenza
di Tito at the Wiener Staatsoper.

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