Nino Surguladze

Nino Surguladze (; born 12 October 1977, Tbilisi) is a Georgian operatic mezzo-soprano.

Biography Born in Tbilisi, Surguladze studied singing with Guliko Kariauli at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. After winning a prize at the Francisco Viñas International Singing Contest in Barcelona, she earned her a scholarship at the Accademia of the , where she studied with Leyla Gencer and Luciana Serra. She made her operatic debut as Cuniza in Verdi's Oberto and Zulma in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri in Milan in 2002, and has since appeared in many opera houses around the world.

She has appeared in the Italian television film Rigoletto a Mantova (2010) and in the Georgian films Valsi Pechoraze and Metichara. In 2010, she was awarded the Presidential Order of Excellence by Mikhail Saakashvili. In 2018 she appeared in the title role of a video-recorded performance of Bizet's Carmen by the Opéra Royal de Liège.

Surguladze is a founder of the charity foundation Desire Tree, which aims to provide assistance to children in need of medical care.

Operatic repertoire Bellini Adalgisa (Norma)

Berlioz Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust)

Bizet Carmen (Carmen)

Tchaikovsky Olga (Eugene Onegin)

Mascagni Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana)

Mozart Dorabella (Così fan tutte)

Verdi Amneris (Aida) Fenena (Nabucco) Maddalena (Rigoletto)

Discography Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto. Arthaus, DVD, 2010 Bizet: Carmen. Dynamic, DVD, 2009 Sergei Prokofiev: Betrothal in a monastery. Glyndebourne, CD, 2006 Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco. Arthaus, DVD, 2006 Gioacchino Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon. TDK, DVD, 2005 Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. EMI Classics, DVD, 2002