Goderdzi Janelidze Bass Georgian bass Goderdzi Janelidze is Katerina Izmailova; the Monk and the winner of the First Prize at the Laura's guest in a new production of 2017 Elena Obraztsova International Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest; Competition, the Main Prize and the Innkeeper in Puccini’s Manon Audience Prize at the 2018 Lescaut; and the roles of International Fyodor Chalyapin Actor/Robber in a new production of competition and the First Prize and Banevich’s opera for children The Audience Prize at the 2018 Story of Kai and Gerda. International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition. He was previously a Roles performed elsewhere include member of the ensemble at the Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Raimondo Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, where Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Basilio Il his roles included The Monk Don Barbiere di Siviglia, Zangal in Carlo, Colline La bohème, and Paliashvili’s Daisi, Doctor Brander La damnation de Faust. Grenvil La traviata and Zuniga Carmen. In the 2020-21 season he makes his “ house and role debut at Opéra Royal In the short time he was de Wallonie, Liège (Pagano I onstage, Georgian bass Lombardi) and house debuts at Valid for use until 1 August 2021 Teatro Real, Madrid (Tom Un ballo For updated versions please contact Goderdzi Janelidze in maschera) and Gran Teatro del [email protected] commanded the stage Liceu, Barcelona (Colline La bohème). He also returns to while establishing the Bregenzer Festspiele for Sparafucile essential nobility of his Rigoletto. character in some of the In the 2019-20 season he made his most gorgeous and most house debuts at the Wexford Festival Opera (title role Don Quichotte) and ‘echt-Russian’ music ever Vlaanderen Opera (Vodnik Rusalka). written for the bass voice. Other recent engagements include Sparafucile Rigoletto (Bregenzer Janelidze had a resonance Festspiele, Canadian Opera in his low range that Company, Teatro Colòn); Prince Gremin Eugene Onegin (Vancouver many a bass could only Opera); Konchak Prince Igor dream of.” (Bolshoi Theatre); Verdi’s Requiem (Teatro Colòn, Berlin Cathedral); OperaCanada.ca Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Creon in Cherubini’s Medea (both for Al Bustan Festival). Janelidze studied at the Paliashvili State Musical College in Batumi, the Batumi Opera Studio and the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, before joining the Young Artists Programme at the Bolshoi Theatre, where his roles included Banco Macbeth; the Millhand and Officer in a new production of Shostakovich’s Rayfield Allied Member of the International Artist Southbank House, Managers’ Association Black Prince Road, London SE1 7SJ, UK Rayfield Allied acts as agent only and can www.rayfieldallied.com accept no responsibility as principal E-mail [email protected] Telephone +44 (0) 20 3 176 5500 Facsimile +44 (0) 700 602 4143 .