David Gamrekeli

David Aleksandrovich Gamrekeli
დავით გამრეკელი
Born(1911-07-27)July 27, 1911
Chiatura
DiedNovember 29, 1977(1977-11-29) (aged 66)
Tbilisi
EducationTbilisi State Conservatory (1935)
OccupationOpera singer

David Aleksandrovich Gamrekeli (Georgian: დავით გამრეკელი, 27 July 1911 – 29 November 1977) was a Georgian baritone opera singer. He was awarded the title People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1943 and the Stalin Prize in 1950.

Biography

Gamrekeli was born in Chiatura, Western Georgia. In 1935, he graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory, studying under Professor Vronsky. That year, the young baritone sang at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre the role of Prince Yeletsky from Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades. In 1937 in Moscow, Georgian Literature and the Arts of the decade, he performed Kiazo's role in Paliashvili's opera Daisi (Sunset). One year later he became laureate of the First All-Union Competition of Vocalists.

He sang the leading roles from Georgian and foreign operas at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1943, he was awarded the title People's Artist. Gamrekeli performed as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre from 1944 to 1952. In 1947 he took the role of the Commissar (Sergo Ordzhonikidze) in Vano Muradeli's ill-fated opera, The Great Friendship.

Gamrekeli's opera repertoire included thirty opera roles, including Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Verdi's Rigoletto, the roles of Renato and Germont, Escamillo from Bizet's Carmen and others.[1]

He died in Tbilisi in 1977, aged 66.[2]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ David Gamrekeli – Georgian vocal's beauty (in Georgian)
  2. ↑ "Д. А. ГАМРЕКЕЛИ" (PDF). Zarya Vostoka (in Russian). No. 283. 4 December 1977. p. 4.
  3. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета Грузинской ССР О присвоении почетных званий работникам искусств Грузинской ССР" (PDF). Zarya Vostoka (in Russian). No. 176. 21 August 1943. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-06-01.
  4. ↑ "ГАМРЕКЕЛИ Давид Александрович". Музыкальная энциклопедия: А-Гонг (in Russian). Vol. 1. Sovetskaya entsiklopediya. 1973. p. 897.
  5. ↑ "В Совете Министров СССР" (PDF). Zarya Vostoka (in Russian). No. 122. 10 June 1950. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении орденами и медалями колхозников, колхозниц, работников сельского хозяйства, промышленности, науки, культуры и искусства Грузинской ССР" (PDF). Zarya Vostoka (in Russian). No. 44. 26 February 1946. p. 2.
  7. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 27 мая 1951 года «О награждении орденами и медалями СССР артистов и художественно-технических работников Государственного ордена Ленина Академического Большого театра СССР»" (PDF). Sovetskaya kultura (in Russian). No. 43. 29 May 1951. p. 2.
  8. ↑ "О награждении работников Тбилисского Театра Оперы и Балета, этнографических хоров Восточной и Западной Грузии и ведущих работников участников декады грузинского искусства в Москве" (PDF). Zarya Vostoka (in Russian). No. 12. 15 January 1937. p. 1.
  9. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 25 мая 1976 года «О награждении орденами и медалями СССР работников Государственного академического Большого театра СССР»" (PDF). Sovetskaya kultura. No. 42. 26 May 1976. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
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