Nana Miriani-Kavtarashvili
Territories : France + Monaco, Switzerland, Benelux

Born in Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia),  soprano Nana Miriani-Kavtarashvili,  graduated at the Academy of Music in her hometown, under Prof. Julia Paliashvili and Prof. Iveta Gersamia.

In Italy, she pursued her vocal education at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and attended  the Training and Proficiency Course of the “Arturo Toscanini” Accademia di Canto in Parma under Carlo Bergonzi  (where she obtained scholarships), as well as the Proficiency and Vocal Interpretation Course “Verdi Opera Studio”  of the Fondazione Verdi Festival held at the Teatro Regio di Parma, under Soprano Renata Scotto.

Winner of the International Singing Competitions “Rocca delle Macie” (Siena),  “Città di Sassari” (Sassari) and “Mario Basiola” (Soresina), she made her debut in Busseto singing the part of Abigaille in Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco, directed by Romano Gandolfi, with the Arturo Toscanini Symphony Orchestra of Emilia Romagna and the Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma.

In 2001, she was invited to perform Cavalleria Rusticana by Monleone and Risurrezione by Alfano at the Opera Berlioz in Montpellier during the Radio France Festival,  under the baton of Friedemann Layer.

Since then, she appeared on leading opera scenes : Teatro alla Scala (Tosca) under Lorin Maazel, (Stage director Luca Ronconi), Teatro Regio di Parma (Un Ballo in Maschera) under Valeryi Guergiev (stage director Andrey Konchalowski), Teatro Comunale di Firenze during the Maggio Musicale (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) under James Conlon (staging Lev Dodin) etc..
She was called again the following year by the Maggio Musicale to perform the other Lady Macbeth (Verdi) at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.

She regularly sings at the “Z. Paliashvili” State Opera House in Tbilisi : Abigaille/Nabucco (alongside Paata Burchuladze), Santuzza/Cavalleria Rusticana, Amelia/Un Ballo in Maschera, Odabella/Attila (staged by Jean-Louis Grinda), Aïda (alongside Dolora Zajick), in Italy : Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Abigaille/Nabucco), Teatro Regio di Parma (Lady Macbeth), Rome (Tosca), Florence, Brescia, to name but a few.
In addition, she is regularly performing at the National Theater of Bratislava, Wielki Theater in Poznan, National Theater of Prague, Bielefeld Theater, Steinbruch Rohrdorf Festival in Munich etc

Versatile artist, Nana Miriani-Kavtarashvili is also sought after in concert and recently sung in Paris/Salle Pleyel alongside Paata Burchuladze, in Stuttgart/Liederhalle, Pavia alongside Leo Nucci, Bologna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Teatro Perez Galdos in Las Palmas etc
She also took part to the concerts in the honour  of the Patriarch of Georgia  at the Philharmonic Theatre in Tbilisi.

Among highlights of the forthcoming months, Nabucco, Cavalleria Rusticana, Aïda, Tannhäuser (Venus)  at the State Opera Theatre in Prague, Fedora in Ostrava, as well as a European concerts tour with Verdi’s opera arias for the composer ‘s bi-centenary.

In 2013/14 Nana Miriani-Kavtarashvili will open the season of the “Z. Paliashvili” State Opera House in Tbilisi singing the role of Isolde in Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde.