Ekaterine Sokhadze
Ekaterine Sokhadze | |
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ეკატერინე სოხაძე | |
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| Born | 16 March 1907 Kutaisi, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 22 May 1984 (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Opera singer |
| Years active | 1930–1953 |
Ekaterine Sokhadze (Georgian: ეკატერინე სოხაძე; 16 March 1907 – 22 May 1984) was a Georgian opera singer (lyric soprano). A longtime soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, she was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR and was a Stalin Prize laureate.[1]
Career
Sokhadze was born on 16 March 1907 in Kutaisi.[1] After studying music there, she graduated in 1930 from the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, in the class of Olga Bakhutashvili-Shulgina.[1] That same year she joined the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre as a soloist, making her debut as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, and she remained with the company until 1953.[1] She was also twice invited as a guest soloist to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.[1]
Her repertoire included Eteri and Maro in Zacharia Paliashvili's Abesalom da Eteri and Daisi, Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and Nestan-Darejan in Shalva Mshvelidze's The Legend of Tariel.[1]
Awards and honours
- Honoured Artist of the Georgian SSR (1936)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1937)[2]
- People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1941)[3]
- Order of Lenin (1946)[4]
- State Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1947)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ეკატერინე სოხაძე [Ekaterine Sokhadze]. Georgian Biographical Dictionary (in Georgian). National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
- ↑ "О награждении работников Тбилисского Театра Оперы и Балета, этнографических хоров Восточной и Западной Грузии и ведущих работников участников декады грузинского искусства в Москве". Izvestiya. No. 13. 15 January 1937. p. 1.
- ↑ "ბრძანებულება საქართველოს სსრ სამეურნეო და კულტურული მშენებ ლობის მოწინავე მუშაკთა დაჯილდოების შესახებ" (PDF). საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკის უმაღლესი საბჭოს უწყებები (in Georgian). No. 1–3. 1941. pp. 24–25.
- ↑ "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. No. 44. 26 February 1946. p. 2.