Zurab Sotkilava
| Zurab Sotkilava | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava |
| Born |
12 March 1937 Sukhumi, Georgian SSR |
| Occupation(s) | Opera singer |
| Years active | 1965-present |
Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava (Russian: Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава, Georgian: ზურაბ სოტკილავა; March 12, 1937) is a Georgian opera singer and People's Artist of the USSR recipient who was born in Sukhumi and was a 1960 graduate of the Tbilisi State Polytechnical Institute.
Since childhood, he played football, was in Dynamo Sukhumi at age 16, where he played on the site full-back, many joined the attack. In 1956 he became captain Sotkilava Georgia under the age of 20 years. Two years later, he was in the main part of Dynamo Tbilisi. Severe injuries he received in 1958 in Yugoslavia, and in 1959 led to the end of his sports career in Czechoslovakia.
In 1965 he graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory where he was under guidance from David Andguladze and from 1965 to 1974 was a soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Zakaria Paliashvili. From 1966 to 1968 he was a student at La Scala where his teacher was Dinaro Barra and following that became a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory where he remained till 1988. Six years later he became chairman of the International Tchaikovsky Competition and was a member of the Bologna Academy of Music at which he became known for his singing of Giuseppe Verdi's works. By 2000 he became Kinoshok chairman of Anapa Film Festival which was hosted throughout the CIS and Baltic States.
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