Nino Machaidze

Born in ,Tbilisi, Georgia, Nino Machaidze is one of today’s most brilliant artists, having made important international debuts at such theaters as the Metropolitan Opera, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Berlin State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Theatre Royale de la Monnaie in Brussels,  ,Opera National de Paris, Royal Opera House-Covent Garden, and Los Angeles Opera. Engagements for the 2016/17 season include Mimì in La Bohème at the Grand Théâtre de  ,Genève, Juliette in Roméo  ,et Juliette at the Royal Opera House of Muscat, Desdemona in Otello at the Teatro di San Carlo ,in Naples, the title role in Thaïs at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Contessa di Folleville in Il  ,viaggio a Reims at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, and Gilda in Rigoletto at the San Francisco Opera. She also returns to the festival in Pesaro for Le siège de Corinthe.

Machaidze’s engagements for the 2015/16 season included Ines in L’Africaine at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gilda at the Theatre du  ,Capitole in Toulouse, Desdemona in ,Rossini’s Otello at the Theater an ,der Wien in Vienna, Luisa in Luisa  ,Miller at the Hamburg State Opera,  ,Violetta in La Traviata at the Arena di Verona, and her debut as Mimì at the Los Angeles Opera. In the 2014/15 season, she sang Violetta in La Traviata at the Los Angeles  ,Opera and Hamburg State Opera, La Contessa di Folleville in Il viaggio a Reims at the Dutch National Opera, Micaëla in Carmen ,at the Teatro alla Scala, the title role in Luisa Miller at the ,Hamburg State Opera, Donna Fiorilla ,in Il  ,turco in Italia at the Teatro Regio di Torino, and Ninetta in La gazza ladra at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

Machaidze’s ,engagements for the 2013/14 season included Adina in L’elisir d’amore at the Teatro Real de Madrid and Wiener Staatsoper, Donna Fiorilla at the Bavarian State Opera, Leïla ,in Les Pecheurs de perles at the Teatro Regio di Parma and Teatro Comunale di Modena, and the title role in Thaïs at the Los Angeles Opera. In the 2012/13 season, she sang her first Thaïs at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, opposite Placido Domingo. She then sang Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Juliette at the Wiener Staatsoper and Theatre Royale de La ,Monnaie, and Gilda with Opera di Genova.

Nino Machaidze began the 2011/12 season with her debut at Staatsoper Hamburg as Gilda. During the course of the season, she also appeared in Hamburg as the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor and Adina in L’elisir d’amore. She ,returned to the Los Angeles Opera as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette and then to the Metropolitan Opera to star in the revival of La fille du régiment. In January of 2012, Machaidze made her French operatic debut at Opera National de Paris in Rigoletto, a work she also performed in Las Palmas. In the summer of 2012, she appeared as Musetta in a new production of La Bohème at the Salzburg Festival, where her colleagues included Anna Netrebko and Peter Beczala.

A graduate of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Machaidze appeared at La Scala as Marie in Donizetti’s La fille  ,du régiment in 2007. These performances, followed by her debut at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in the same role, were what launched her ,international career. In the summer of 2008, Machaidze made a sensational debut at the Salzburg Festival as Juliette ,in the new production of Roméo et Juliette, opposite Rolando Villazon.

Other roles in Machaidze’s developing repertoire include Giulietta in I Capuleti ed I Montecchi, the title role in Massenet’s Manon, and Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride.

Among her recent engagments: Le siège de Corinthe in  ,Pesaro, Les Pecheurs de perles in Los Angeles, Guillaume Tell in ,Palermo, Roméo et Juliette in Karlsruhe, Pagliacci in Genève Roma  ,and Salerno, Il barbiere di Siviglia in Verona and Amsterdam, Les  ,contes d’Hoffmann in Naples, Manon in Paris and Wien, La  ,Bohème in Tokyo, Viva la mamma! in Madrid, Armida  ,in Marseille, Luisa Miller in Zurich, Hamburg and Salzburg, Giovanna  ,d’Arco in Rome, La gazza ladra at the Theater An der Wien, La Traviata in Berlin, Naples, Bari and Seville, I Lombardi ,alla prima Crociata in Monte Carlo, Budapest and Munich.