I was at her performance, God, it's an indescribable delight! Khibla Gerzmava, soloist of the opera Khibla Gerzmava personal life husband.

Russian and Abkhazian opera singer (soprano). Soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre, Honored Artist of Russia (2006), People's Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia (2006).

In 1994 she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (vocal faculty, teachers - Professor I. I. Maslennikova, Professor E. M. Arefieva), in 1996 - postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Professor Maslennikova. She also studied in the organ class.

Since 1995 - soloist of the Musical Theater. K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.

During her career, Khibla Gerzmava has performed on the stages of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Teatro Comunale in Florence, the Grand Teatro de Liceu in Barcelona, ​​the Sofia National Opera in Bulgaria, the Champs-Elysées Theater in Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Palau de climbed Art Reina Sofía in Valencia, etc.

In 2001, she organized the annual music festival "Khibla Gerzmava invites ..." in Abkhazia. For the past few years, the festival has been held in 3 parts: "Concert of Young Musicians", "Jazz Improvisations" and "Evening of Classical Music". The festival was attended by Vladimir Spivakov with the Moscow Virtuosos and Daniil Kramer with his Trio.

Titles and awards

1993 - Competition "Voci Verdiani" (Italy), 3rd prize

1994 - Francisco Viñas International Vocal Competition (Barcelona), 2nd prize

1994 - N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov International Vocal Competition (St. Petersburg), 2nd prize

1994 - X International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow), Grand Prix

2001 - Theater Award "Golden Orpheus" in the nomination "Best Singer"

2006 - Honored Artist of Russia

2006 - People's Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia

2010 - National Theater Award "Golden Mask" in the nomination "Best Actress"

A few years ago I recognized this amazing singer. Her voice is simply mesmerizing. I want to introduce you to her.

Biography

Khibla Gerzmava was born on Christmas Eve, January 6, 1970, in the Abkhazian resort town of Pitsunda in the family of an interpreter from German-guide "Intourist" and a senior administrator of the boarding house "Pitsunda". In Abkhazian, the name Khibla means "golden-eyed", the surname Gerzmava means "wolf", "she-wolf". At the age of three, his father brought Hibla a piano from Germany. Since childhood, she sang and played the piano. The girl grew up near the Pitsunda Orthodox Cathedral, where organ music sounded. She first felt her artistic element in her youth, when the Abkhaz song and dance ensemble "Sharatyn" performed in the Pitsunda Resort Hall, and the performances of the violinist Liana Isakadze also made a strong impression on Khibla.

Early, at the age of 17 and 19, she was left without parents, which influenced her worldview and the choice of a singing profession. She studied at the music school in Gagra. She graduated from the Sukhumi School of Music in piano, dreamed of becoming an organist. Her teachers in Sukhum were Karlen Yavryan and Josephine Bumburidi.

In 2001, she organized the annual music festival "Khibla Gerzmava invites ..." in Abkhazia. The host of the festival for many years was Svyatoslav Belza. In 2014 the festival moved to Moscow.

In 2008, Gerzmava received an invitation to the Bolshoi Theatre, but refused due to frequent tours around the world.

During her career, Gerzmava has performed at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Communale Theater in Florence, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, the Grand Teatro de Liceo in Barcelona, ​​the Sofia National Opera in Bulgaria, the Theater the Champs Elysees in Paris, the Palau de les Art Reina Sofia in Valencia and other venues. Participated in tours of the Musical Theater. K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko in South Korea and the USA. She performed at the Ludwigsburg Festival in Germany. She has toured with concert programs in Sweden, France, Holland, Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Greece, USA, Japan, Turkey.

Khibla Gerzmava is divorced, she has a son, Sandro (born 1998), sang in the children's choir of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theater, sometimes participated in performances with her mother.

Khibla has a younger brother, two nephews from him. Brother finished

Khibla Gerzmava is a “new type” opera artist, as the press writes about her. Khibla amazes fans not only with vocal abilities, but also with subtle acting, grace, and thoughtfulness of the image. The singer with all her appearance gives the feeling of a fairy tale, which made the artist not only a recognized opera diva, but also an icon of style.

Khibla Levarsovna Gerzmava was born on January 6, 1970 in the Abkhazian resort town of Pitsunda. The girl's family was not at all musical. The mother of the future opera singer is a translator from German, her father is the senior administrator of the Pitsunda boarding house. Translated from the Abkhazian, Khibla means "golden-eyed", the artist's surname is translated as "she-wolf".

When little Hibla was three years old, her father brought a piano from Germany, which the future opera singer has since tried to learn to play. This sudden purchase determined the future biography of the singer, pushing the girl to music. Soon Khibla began to sing and play the piano.

Khibla's childhood passed near the Pitsunda Orthodox Cathedral, through the walls of which organ music constantly sounded. For the first time, Gerzmava felt an artistic craving in her youth, when she attended the performance of the Abkhaz song and dance group Sharatyn. She was also amazed by the performance of the violinist Liana Isakadze. As the girl grew, so did her passion for music.

Gerzmava lost her parents early. When she was 17, and then 19, her parents left one by one. The girl had only a younger brother. This fact influenced the further biography of Khibla Gerzmava. Already at this age, the girl firmly decided that her choice was a creative profession. In connection with this decision, she graduated from a music school in Gagra, then a music school in piano.

From 1989 to 1994 she studied at the Moscow Conservatory at the vocal faculty. In 1996 she completed her assistantship at the conservatory. At the same time, she studied music for three years in the organ class, eventually mastering her favorite instrument.

Music

Abroad, Gerzmava first "lit up" in 1993. Then Khibla took part in the Verdi Voices competition, receiving the third prize. A year later, she was recognized at name contests in St. Petersburg and Francisco Viñas in Spain, where the singer received second place. Triumphant success came in his student years at the 10th International Name Competition. It was in 1994, she performed the final aria of Rosina, winning the Grand Prix.

The singer is often compared to an opera singer. They are somewhat similar: both young and attractive women, both southerners, and due to the peculiarities of their voice and type, perform the same parts on stage.

Netrebko became famous five years earlier than Khibla and, if circumstances had turned out differently, she could well have forced her rival off the stage. Instead, two opera divas divided the music world in half. Anna is a singer of the St. Petersburg school, Khibla studied and performs more often in Moscow. Even playing the same roles, they shine on different, but equally significant stages. For example, Anna Netrebko, who glorified both Donnas, sang at La Scala in Milan, and Gerzmava at Covent Garden in London.

During her busy career, opera singer Khibla Gerzmava has performed on the world's great stages. Among them are the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Communale Theater in Florence, the Metropolitan Opera in New York (debut in 2010), Covent Garden in London (the already mentioned part of Donna Anna in 2012), the Vienna State Opera, the Grand Teatro de Liceo in Barcelona, ​​the Sofia National Opera in Bulgaria, the Champs-Elysées Theater in Paris, the Palau de les Art Reina Sofia in Valencia.

The singer has collaborated with many legends of the music scene. Among them are a virtuoso pianist, conductor and violinist, pianist Nikolai Lugansky, Music Viva orchestra, singer and saxophonist and others.

Khibla Gerzmava also participates in modern performances. But, of course, not in all, but only in productions with taste, where they do not cross the line of theatrical conventions. Abroad, the singer performs encore songs in her native Abkhazian. Her performances gather a large audience both in Moscow and in New York.

The singer also left her mark in the chamber genre of classical music, having recorded a number of records entitled “Khibla Gerzmava performs Russian romances”, “Oriental romances of Khibla Gerzmava”, as well as discs with cycles of romances by Nikolai Myaskovsky, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. On account of Khibla there are many videos of the performance of songs, romances and arias, there are video versions of opera productions where the artist sings. In 2016, the singer released a video for the vocal work "The Gray-Eyed King", created on verses.

However, the main musical love of Khibla was and remains jazz. She participated in the concerts of Daniil Kramer. The project was called “Opera. Jazz. Blues". The singer and pianist toured Russia and Europe and not only repeated the same compositions, but changed the program every six months. In 2016, the musicians released an album of the same name, which included the best works from their program. Khibla also collaborated with the famous jazz saxophonist Georgy Garanyan.

In February 2014, Khibla Gerzmava performed the "Olympic Waltz" at the closing of the Sochi Olympic Games. The singer took part in a romantic show during Sochi-2014: the artist sang while the ship Vestnik Vesny took her over the air.

On February 22, 2015, Khibla appeared in the One to One show on the Russia 1 TV channel as a member of the jury. During the performance in the image of Hibla, they asked to perform an encore of the hit "Eternal Love", which everyone loved, which the singer did flawlessly.

In December 2016, the singer sang a part in the opera Don Carlos. The production was distinguished by a stellar cast, but almost all the participants were known for their solo vocal careers, so the audience was looking forward to seeing them together on the same stage. The highlight of the program was supposed to be, but due to a serious illness, the singer refused to participate, and he was replaced by Ildar Abdrazakov, who was later called by journalists "the sex symbol of the opera world."

At the end of the same year, a scandal erupted. Before the match of the First Channel Ice Hockey Cup, Khibla was supposed to perform the anthem of the Russian Federation, but, as it seemed to many, she forgot or mixed up the words. The artist apologized and asked to give her the opportunity to perform this composition again, but the organizers refused the request.

This mistake of the singer caused a flood of condemnation in the press. The next day, the Ice Hockey Federation of the Russian Federation expressed a different version of what was happening. According to its president, there were technical problems, so the music sounded slower than expected, which confused the performer. The Federation made an official apology to Khibla Gerzmava.

This incident could not interfere with the artist's career. Gerzmava still remains in demand on the opera stage. On the official website of the singer, her performances are scheduled for several months in advance.

Personal life

Khibla Gerzmava speaks reluctantly about his personal life. Few people know why Khibla's husband now lives separately. From a joint marriage, they have a son, Sandro, born in 1998. From childhood, the boy sang in the choir of the Moscow Theater. and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. Sometimes Sandro participated in performances with the famous mother. Photos of the son often appear in the personal " Instagram» singers.

The family life of the artist remains a secret, but, according to journalists, the opera singer does not have new children and a husband. Khibla maintains a close relationship with his younger brother Lorets, who was educated at MGIMO and the Sorbonne. Now the brother's family lives in two countries - France and Abkhazia. The family nest of Gerzmava is located in the village of Duripsh, where relatives gather in the summer months of the year. The graves of my father and mother were also there.

Khibla Gerzmava devotes a lot of effort and money to charity. The singer financially supports musical groups and young artists of Abkhazia. Until 2014, during the summer months, the music festival “Khibla Gerzmava invites ...” was held on the territory of the Pitsunda Museum Complex, which was later moved to Moscow. The permanent leader of the event was Svyatoslav Belza. For three evenings, the audience got acquainted with the work of young musicians, performers of classical and jazz music.

In March 2018, the Bolshoi Theater hosted the presentation of the First BraVo International Music Award. Khibla Gerzmava was honored to become a laureate in the nomination "Best Classical Female Vocal". Dmitry Hvorostovsky was posthumously awarded there in the category "Best Classical Album of the Year" for recording the disc "Verdi. Rigoletto. The soloist of the Mariinsky Theater Ildar Abdrazakov, the pianist and others also received awards.

parties

• Lyudmila, "Ruslan and Lyudmila"
• The Swan Princess, The Tale of Tsar Saltan by N. Rimsky-Korsakov
• Rosina, The Barber of Seville
• Adina, Love Potion by G. Donizetti
• Violetta Valeri, "La traviata"
• Mimi and Musetta, La bohème
• Nymph, "Daphne" by M. da Galliano
• Adele, "The Bat"
• Donna Anna, Don Juan
• Vitellia, "The Mercy of Titus", W. A. ​​Mozart
• Liu, Turandot, G. Puccini
• Amelia Grimaldi, "Simon Boccanegra", G. Verdi

Khibla Gerzmava: Not a single significant theater in the world is still complete without Russian singers. We open the seasons, we close the seasons.

Every time I sing abroad, I feel a huge responsibility, because I represent my country and defend its honor. It is always written on the posters of the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden that I am from Russia, but I was born in Abkhazia - this is also very important. Still, you have to remember your roots. When a singer does not remember her roots, it is sad, wrong.

Are they wary of Russia, you say? This is politics. But we, the artists, are peacemakers. We make a policy - kind, friendly.

Olga Shablinskaya, "AiF": I have already heard from the audience more than once: after the performances of Khibla Gerzmava, they feel light in their souls. And where does the opera star draw her joy?

First, the singer must be in love and must be loved. For her voice to sound, a woman must be happy. Without falling in love, it is impossible to caress with sound.

Secondly, my home is very important to me. This is my fortress. It's great when your family and your child make you happy, it gives you an incredibly good energy supply. I have a son, he is 17 years old, I am very proud of him ...

I am generally a happy person. Although I like to mourn. Sometimes I love loneliness, I like to look at beautiful paintings silently somewhere in a museum, to read an interesting book in a beautiful binding. I love the sky, with pleasure I can stand at the temple where the bell rings, and pray, read the “Our Father” several times ... This gives purification.

I like to smell lilacs or a bunch of peonies sent to me by a loved one. In general, there are many such trifles that give light energy to life. And, of course, music. Music is prayer, it is the highest mathematics.

It's also important to try something new. We recently shot a mini-film based on Sergei Prokofiev's romance "The Gray-Eyed King" from the cycle "Five Poems by Anna Akhmatova", timed to coincide with the composer's 125th birthday.

I suddenly realized that the camera loves me, and now I want to act in films.

be strong

Are there any roles that scare you? Prima Svetlana Zakharova told me: when she danced the ballet "The Youth and Death", she then had the feeling that she had really killed someone.

After one opera, I come to my senses for a week. When I was preparing this role, it was impossible to communicate with me. I was nervous, irritated, angry, somehow, vulnerable. I'm talking about the opera Medea by Cherubini - Callas sang it brilliantly, amazingly. Medea's fate is so incredible... I still don't understand how a woman could kill her brother because of her love for a man, dismember his body, scatter it along the shore and sail away with her beloved, and then kill her children in order to take revenge on your loved one for your pain.

By the way, we are going to take Medea to Abkhazia this year. The festival "Khibla Gerzmava invites ..." is 15 years old - I can't even believe it!

Khibla Gerzmava. Photo by Vlad Loktev.

- By the way, in what field do you see your son?

We tried to put everything good into Sandro. He studies wonderfully, plays the piano and the guitar very well. He has a great math mind. I thought he would go to the Financial Academy or MGIMO. But he is a theatrical child, he grew up with us in the theater, sang in the children's choir, of course, he gravitates towards acting. But the most important thing is that he grows up as a real man, well-mannered and beautiful both internally and externally. The fact that a man should be the head and stronger than others, Sandro knows well.

- Are you a strong person too? And does a woman need to hide strength from her beloved man?

I am a Capricorn, I have such a Capricorn character. The singer must be strong, the weak do not survive in our world. In order to be the first, you need the will.

And at home I am a very, very soft, "pajama", fluffy person. I have gone through a lot in my life in order to stop being weak. I'm not talking about theatrical intrigues - they have always been, are and will be. I'm talking about the early death of parents ... Almost 29 years, as my mother is gone. And still sometimes I can burst into tears like a girl at 46 years old, I really miss my mother. Mom and dad are buried in our estate in Abkhazia. I visit their graves. These are my wings, which, if anything happens, will cover me.

Khibla Gerzmava is a Russian opera singer, People's Artist of Abkhazia and People's Artist of Russia. Khibla was born in 1970 on January 6 in the resort of Pitsunda. There, on the sun-drenched coastline, she spent her childhood and youth. From an early age, Hibla sang and played the piano.

As a child, the singer studied at a music school in Gagra, and later at the Sukhumi music school. However, the future star was going to become not a vocalist, but a pianist. Although Khibla always loved to sing, and even composed songs herself, neither Khibla herself nor her relatives seriously thought about a vocal career. The girl's cherished dream was: to become an organist. However, the piano teacher saw in her an outstanding singing talent and took the eighteen-year-old Khibla Gerzmava to a vocal class with teacher Josephine Bumburidi. This step was decisive for the birth of the future opera star.

The very next year, in 1989, Khibla entered the Moscow Conservatory at the vocal faculty, which she graduated in 1994. There, Professor Maslennikova Irina Ivanovna and Professor Arefieva Evgenia Mikhailovna became her mentors.

But even before graduating from the conservatory in 1993, a student of the vocal faculty, Khibla Gerzmava, attracted the attention of vocal masters at the Verdi Voices competition, which was held in Busseto, Italy. At this competition, for her voice, artistry and energy, the young singer was awarded the third prize.

The next 1994 was no less successful for the talented student: first, second places at the Villas competitions in Spain and Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg, and then the Grand Prix, which Gerzmava won in Moscow at the X International Competition. Tchaikovsky, conquering the jury in the final with the arias of Rosina and the Snow Maiden.

Although Gerzmava was going to devote her entire life to her vocal career, she still did not leave her childhood dream - to learn to play the organ. Khibla took an elective class in the organ class for three years and nevertheless mastered a complex instrument. Classes in piano and organ were not in vain. Thanks to the professional education and training of the pianist, Khibla Gerzmava feels the score more thoroughly and performs each part more expressively, capturing all the intonations of the instruments and using their intonational features. This helps the singer enhance the effect of her colorful soprano on the listener.

1995 was the beginning of a creative career for Gerzmava at MAMT. Khibla's dramatic talent, her clear and strong voice, as well as mutual understanding and creative alliance with stage director Alexander Titel helped the young soloist become a bright star on the stage of the Moscow Musical Theatre. On its stage, she created amazing images of Rosina (“The Barber of Seville” by Rossini), Adele (“The Bat” by Strauss), Princess_Swan (“The Tale of Tsar Saltan” by Rimsky-Korsakov), Lyudmila (“Ruslan and Lyudmila” by Glinka), Queen of Shemakhan ("The Golden Cockerel" by Rimsky-Korsakov), Violetta ("La Traviata" by Verdi), etc.

The singer's talent was awarded in 2001 with the Golden Orpheus theater award. She won in the nomination "Best Singer", and in 2010 Khibla Gerzmava was awarded the Russian national theater award "Golden Mask" for the part of Lucia. Among her awards are also the Casta Diva Prize, the Moscow Prize in the field of art and the first independent Triumph Prize received in 2011.

Khibla Gerzmava tours a lot around the world. She performed on stage at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Her debut took place there in 2010. Gerzmava has sung on the stages of the Vienna State Opera, London's Covent Garden, the Sofia National Opera in Bulgaria, the Grand Teatro de Liceu and many other venues. In Paris, Khibla performed Vitelia's aria on the stage of the Paris State Opera, and was named one of the best who ever performed this part. She was on tour with the theater in South Korea and the United States, performed with concert programs in many countries. The singer has recorded several CDs, has repeatedly spoken to delegations at the personal invitation of the president in the Kremlin.

The constant passion of the singer has always been jazz. She is not indifferent to the synthesis of classical and jazz. In the jazz world, one of her favorite partners and friends was Georgy Garanyan, who suddenly passed away in 2010. Together with Ivanov and Sevostyanov, Khibla holds an annual jazz festival in Pitsunda. She always liked to take risks, she was a versatile person who loves experiments. Therefore, one of the highlights of Moscow cultural life is the concert “Opera. Jazz. Blues, where Khibla performs together with the jazz trio of Daniil Kramer, is quite understandable and logical.

And although the parents called the girl “golden-eyed” (as Hibla is translated from Abkhazian), the singer can rightly be called “golden-voiced”. After all, the voice with which Khibla enchants her listeners is a golden, precious gift that she gladly gives to people.

Program "To the 100th Anniversary of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre..." Khibla Gerzmava and the Yakov Okun Quartet