Zurab Sotkilava Explained

Zurab Sotkilava

Honorific Suffix:

Native Name:

ზურაბ სოტკილავა

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Birth Name:

Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava

Birth Date:

1937 3, df=yes

Birth Place:

Sokhumi, Georgian SSR

Death Place:

Moscow, Russian Federation

Occupation:

tenor opera singer (1965–2017)
football player (1955–1959)

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Football career
Fullname:	Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava^[1]
Position:	Defender
Youthyears1:	1951–1955
Youthclubs1:	Dinamo Sokhumi
Years1:	1955
Years2:	1956
Years3:	1958–1959
Caps1:	2
Goals1:	0
Clubs2:	FShM Tbilisi
Caps3:	1
Goals3:	0

Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava (ru|Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава, Georgian: ზურაბ სოტკილავა; 12 March 1937 – 18 September 2017) was a Georgian operatic tenor and People's Artist of the USSR recipient.

Biography

Education

In 1960, Sotkilava graduated from the Tbilisi State Polytechnical Institute.

Football career

Sotkilava began playing association football during childhood. At age 16, he joined Dynamo Sukhumi where he played full-back. In 1956 he became captain of the Georgia national team, and two years later he joined Dynamo Tbilisi.^[2] In 1958 he incurred severe injuries while playing in Yugoslavia. This ultimately led to the end of his sports career in Czechoslovakia the following year.^[3]

Music career

In 1965 he graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory under the guidance of David Andguladze. Between 1965 and 1974 Sotkilava 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. He later became a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory where he remained until 1988. After six years he became chairman of the International Tchaikovsky Competition and was a member of the Bologna Academy of Music, at which point he became known for his singing of Giuseppe Verdi's works.

By 2000, he chaired the jury at the Kinoshok film festival at Anapa, which hosted films from throughout the CIS and Baltic States.^[4]

Later life and death

In 2015, he was diagnosed with a malignant pancreatic tumor; he died in 2017, at age 80,^[5] and was survived by his wife, Eliso Turmanidze, and his two daughters.

Roles at the Bolshoi Theatre

Il trovatore — Manrico
Tosca – Cavaradossi
Iolanta – Vaudemont
Aida – Radames
Sadko – Indian merchant
The Abduction of the Moon – Arzakan
Un ballo in maschera – Riccardo
Cavalleria rusticana – Turiddu
— Don Caloandro
Boris Godunov – The pretender
Khovanshchina – Galitzine
Nabucco – Ismaele

Awards

2nd prize International Tchaikovsky Competition (1970)^[6]
Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1970)
People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1973)^[7]
People's Artist of the USSR (1979)^[6]
Shota Rustaveli Prize (1993)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2007)^[8]
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2001)^[9]
Order of the Badge of Honour (1971)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1976)
Order of Honor (Georgia, 1997)^[10]
Ovation (2008)
Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour (2012) ^[11]
Honorary member of the Academy of Music Bologna (Italy) - elected "for a brilliant interpretation of the works of Verdi"
Academician of the Academy of aesthetics and Liberal Arts (Moscow)^[12]

Former Students

Ksenia Leonidova ^[13]

External links

Interview with Zurab Sotkilava ; accessed 19 September 2017.

Notes and References

http://footballfacts.ru/players/108707-sotkilava-zurab-lavrentevich Profile at Footballfacts.ru
http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/sotkilava/ Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава / Zurab Sotkilava profile
Web site: Биография Зураба Соткилавы . . 2017-03-12 . 2017-09-21.
Web site: Zurab Sotkilava:Tenor (1937-2017) . Bolshoi Theatre. 14 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20181225053003/https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/persons/opera/48/. 25 December 2018.
http://lifenews.ru/news/157105 Оперный певец Зураб Соткилава признался, что тяжело болен раком
http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/national/sotkilava/ Биография Зураба Соткилавы
Web site: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского — Педагоги — Соткилава Зураб Лаврентьевич . 2016-07-24 . 2017-10-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171005213402/http://mosconsv.info/teachers/about.phtml?278 . dead .
Presidential Decree dated 3 December 2007, № 1626
http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=006233 Указ Президента РФ от 22 марта 2001 г. № 325
Web site: Биографии вокалистов . 2016-07-24 . 2017-10-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171005202503/http://mycelebrities.ru/publ/ljudi/vokalisty/zurab_sotkilava/20-1-0-867 . dead .
http://pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?26423 Распоряжение Президента РФ от 27 октября 2012 г. № 486-рп
http://www.independent-academy.net/about/members/sotkilava.html Состав академии: Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава
http://www.mosconsv.ru/ru/person.aspx?id=8935 Московская государственная консерватория имени П. И. Чайковского