Teimuraz Gugushvili

People’s artist of Georgia, principal soloist of the Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Laureate of the State Prize of Georgia and Cavalier of the Order of Honor of Georgia, Professor, he is called the Golden Tenor of Georgia. Teimuraz Gugushvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. From 1968 to 1970 he was a probationer member at the Teatro alla Scala. Teimuraz Gugushvili played almost all parts for tenor of the classical opera repertoire, he has sung in the USA, almost all european countries and on the opera stages of Moscow (the Bolshoi Theatre), Saint-Petersburg (Mariinsky Theatre), Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Kiev, Baku, Kishinev. He is currently Professor of the Department of Solo Academic Singing at his Alma Mater – Tbilisi State Conservatoire.