Nino Machaidze ( ka, ნინო მაჩაიძე; born 8 March 1983) is a

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n operatic soprano. She performs in 19th-century Romantic repertoire, primarily in operas by Rossini and Verdi as well as French operas. Beginning her career at La Scala, she gained international attention after being cast as Juliette in Gounod's '' Roméo et Juliette'' at the 2008

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, after which she earned the nickname "

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of Opera" from the Austrian press.

Early life

Nino Machaidze was born to a Georgian language teacher mother and an economist father and raised in

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. At the age of six she began piano and vocal lessons at a school affiliated with the

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, which she later also attended. At 17, she also attended flute lessons, hoping to strengthen the diaphragm. Between 2000 and 2005, she had role engagements as Zerlina in '' Don Giovanni'', Gilda in ''

Rigoletto ''Rigoletto'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play '' Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had co ...

'', Rosina in ''

The Barber of Seville ''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( it, Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione ) is an ''opera buffa'' in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based ...

'', and Norina in ''

Don Pasquale ''Don Pasquale'' () is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's ...

'' at the

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. In 2005, she was among the 9 applicants accepted into the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala after an intense competition. At the academy, she studied with Luciana Serra,

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, and

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and also attended masterclasses of

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and

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. In 2006 she debuted at the theater as Najade in ''

Ariadne auf Naxos (''Ariadne on Naxos''), Op. 60, is a 1912 opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The opera's unusual combination of elements of low commedia dell'arte with those of high opera seria points up one of the work's ...

'' and won first prize in the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition in

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Career

Early career (2007–2013)

Machaidze proceeded to perform several roles in sequential seasons at La Scala: Silvia in ''

Ascanio in Alba ''Ascanio in Alba'', K. 111, is a pastoral opera in two parts (') by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Parini. It was commissioned by the Empress Maria Theresa for the wedding of her son, Archduke Ferdinand Karl, to Mari ...

'', Marie in ''

La fille du régiment ' (''The Daughter of the Regiment'') is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra ...

'', Despina in '' Così fan tutte'', Lauretta in ''

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'', and Musetta in ''

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''. She returned in 2010 for '' L'elisir d'amore'' and 2011 for '' Roméo et Juliette''. She also made guest appearances at the

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(Marie), the

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(Amina in ''

La sonnambula ''La sonnambula'' (''The Sleepwalker'') is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the ''bel canto'' tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ''ballet-pantomime'' written by Eu ...

''), and the

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(Gilda in ''

''). Spotted by artistic director

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as Lauretta led her to play Juliette in the new

production of Gounod's '' Roméo et Juliette'' in 2008 opposite

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when Anna Netrebko dropped out due to pregnancy. The performance turned out to be successful, therefore propelled her to international fame. She then sang the role at the

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. She would return to Salzburg in 2010 for the same opera, sharing Juliette with Netrebko, and in 2012 for ''

'' (Musetta) with Netrebko as Mimì. In 2009, she was cast as Elvira in ''

I puritani ' (''The Puritans'') is an 1835 opera by Vincenzo Bellini. It was originally written in two acts and later changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino Rossini, with whom the young composer had become friends. The music was set to a libretto ...

'' opposite

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at the

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, before repeating Juliette at La Fenice. She sang Lucia in ''

Lucia di Lammermoor ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' () is a (tragic opera) in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's 1819 historical novel '' The Bride of Lammermoo ...

'' first at

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, and later in Salerno and Valencia. Machaidze was cast as Donna Fiorilla in a new production of ''

Il turco in Italia ''Il turco in Italia'' (English: ''The Turk in Italy'') is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (w ...

'' at the

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in July 2009. Later in the year, she made her Los Angeles Opera debut with Adina ('' L'elisir d'amore''), and subsequently made her

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debut in the same role, premiering David Bösch's production. In 2010, she made her

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debut in ''La fille du régiment'', and Royal Opera, London debut with Juliette. The year 2011 saw her

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performances: ''Rigoletto'' in January and May, and ''La fille du régiment'' in December. She returned to Los Angeles for Fiorilla and, later in the year, for Juliette, which she also sang at the

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and

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. In September 2011, she made her Hamburg State Opera debut singing Gilda and Lucia. In 2012, she sang Gilda at the Paris Opera and Teatro Pérez Galdós in

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. In 2013, she returned to the

(Gilda) and

(Fiorilla), and made her

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debut with ''L'elisir d'amore'', in which she later made her

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debut in

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's production. During the years, she added two French roles: Leïla in '' Les pêcheurs de perles'' (

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in Verona), a role she repeated at the

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in Paris, and the title role in ''

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'', alongside

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(

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). They would unite in concert performances of the same opera at the Liceu in 2017.

Mid-career (2014–present)

Machaidze returned to the Los Angeles Opera for ''Thaïs'' in May 2014 and her first Violetta in '' La traviata'', which opened the 2014/15 season. She would sing her first Mimì in ''

'' in 2015/16 and Leïla in 2017/18. The season also saw her return to Hamburg for the premiere of Andreas Homoki's new ''

Luisa Miller ''Luisa Miller'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play ''Kabale und Liebe'' (''Intrigue and Love'') by the German dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Verdi's initial idea for ...

'', her debut in the title role, and ''La traviata''. The Luisa production would later revive in 2016 and 2018 with her. In 2015, she made several role debuts after singing Fiorilla in Turin: Contessa di Folleville in ''

Il viaggio a Reims ''Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro'' (''The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Fleur-de-lis'') is an operatic dramma giocoso, originally performed in three acts,Janet Johnson: ''A Lost Masterpiece Recovered'', pp. 37 ...

'' (

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), Micaëla in '' Carmen'' ( La Scala), Ninetta in ''

La gazza ladra ''La gazza ladra'' (, ''The Thieving Magpie'') is a ''melodramma'' or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on ''La pie voleuse'' by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caig ...

'' ( Rossini Opera Festival), and Inès in ''

L'Africaine ''L'Africaine'' (''The African Woman'') is an 1865 French ''grand opéra'' in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title ''L'Africaine'', bu ...

'' (

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), followed by Gilda in Toulouse. She sang her first Desdemona in Rossini's '' Otello'' in February 2016 in Damiano Michieletto's new production at the

. She returned to the

for Violetta, before heading to the

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for '' Roméo et Juliette'' with the

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. She then made

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and the Grand Théâtre de Genève debuts respectively with Desdemona and Mimì. In 2017, after stepping in as Fiorilla at the Bergen National Opera, she repeated Folleville at the

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, and made her

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debut with her last Gilda. She returned to the Rossini Opera Festival for Pamira in ''

Le siège de Corinthe ''Le siège de Corinthe'' (English: ''The Siege of Corinth'') is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini set to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, which was based on the reworking of some of the music from the composer ...

''. She made her first appearance in Korea in ''La traviata'', and returned in the same season for Mimì at the

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. Machaidze added two new roles in 2018: Mathilde in ''

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'' (

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in Palermo), and Nedda in '' Pagliacci'' in Geneva. She made her

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debut with Luisa Miller, during which she briefly returned to Georgia to sing the national anthem "

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" on the parade for the centenary of the

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. She returned to Naples for Violetta, and in the next season for her first Antonia in ''

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''. She sang at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Juliette, June 2018; Antonia, December 2019). Later in the year, she reprised Rosina in ''

,'' in Verona and Amsterdam. In 2019, she was a guest performer at the

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nball. She debuted in the title role in '' Manon'' at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Vienna State Opera. She was rejoined by Domingo in concert performances of ''Luisa Miller'' at the

. Despite announcing withdrawal from ''La traviata'' in Paris claiming medical treatment, she stepped into ''Otello'' at the

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, in the Michieletto production she premiered. In 2020, she performed Mimì at the

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Personal life

Machaidze has been residing in

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, Italy since 2005. She married baritone Guido Loconsolo on 26 September 2011. They have two children: Alessandro (born 9 August 2013), and Elena (born 18 January 2021). She enjoys swimming but not jogging. She is active on social media and has over 100,000 followers on Facebook.

Awards

Machaidze was awarded the Best Female Opera Singer in the Premios Líricos Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo for the 2012/13 season, for her performances in ''Il turco in Italia'' (Liceu) and ''Thaïs'' (Teatro de la Maestranza).

Opera roles

*Zerlina, '' Don Giovanni'' (Mozart) *Norina, ''

'' (Donizetti) *Rosina, ''

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'' (Rossini) *Gilda, ''

'' (Verdi) *Naiad, ''

'' (Strauss) *Silvia, ''

'' (Mozart) *Marie, ''

'' (Donizetti) *Despina, '' Così fan tutte'' (Mozart) *Lauretta, ''

'' (Puccini) *Amina, ''

'' (Bellini) *Musetta, ''

'' (Puccini) *Juliette, '' Roméo et Juliette'' (Gounod) *Elvira, ''

'' (Bellini) *Lucia, ''

'' (Donizetti) *Fiorilla, ''

'' (Rossini) *Adina, '' L'elisir d'amore'' (Donizetti) *Olga Sukarev, '' Fedora'' (Giordano) *Leïla, '' Les pêcheurs de perles'' (Bizet) *Thaïs, ''

'' (Massenet) *Violetta, '' La traviata'' (Verdi) *Luisa, ''

'' (Verdi) *Folleville, ''

'' (Rossini) *Micaëla, '' Carmen'' (Bizet) *Ninetta, ''

'' (Rossini) *Inès, ''

'' (Meyerbeer) *Desdemona, '' Otello'' (Rossini) *Mimì, ''La bohème'' (Puccini) *Pamira, ''

'' (Rossini) *Mathilde, ''

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'' (Rossini) *Nedda, '' Pagliacci'' (Leoncavallo) *Antonia, ''

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'' (Offenbach) *Manon, '' Manon'' (Massenet) *Giselda, ''

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'' (Verdi) *Daria, ''

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'' (Donizetti) *Armida, ''

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'' (Rossini)

Recordings

Machaidze has been a

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artist since January 2011.

CDs

* Giordano: '' Fedora'' (as Olga Sukarev; 2010).

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Orchestra and Chorus,

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(

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) * ''Romantic Arias'' – Rossini, Donizetti, Massenet, Bellini, Gounod (2011). Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra,

Michele Mariotti Michele Mariotti, born in 1979 in Urbino, near Pesaro, is an Italian conductor, the ''direttore musicale'' since 2014 of Teatro Comunale di Bologna. A graduate in composition of Pesaro's Conservatorio Rossini, where he also studied orchestral con ...

(Sony) * ''Arias & Scenes'' (2013).

Orchestre National de France The Orchestre national de France (ONF; literal translation, ''National Orchestra of France'') is a French symphony orchestra based in Paris, founded in 1934. Placed under the administration of the French national radio (named Radio France sinc ...

Daniele Gatti Daniele Gatti (born 6 November 1961) is an Italian conductor. He is currently chief conductor of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, artistic advisor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and music director of the Orchestra Mozart. Biography Gatti was born ...

(Sony)

DVDs

* Puccini: ''

Il trittico ''Il trittico'' (''The Triptych'') is the title of a collection of three one-act operas, ''Il tabarro'', '' Suor Angelica'', and '' Gianni Schicchi'', by Giacomo Puccini. The work received its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on 14 Decemb ...

'' (as Lauretta; 2008). Riccardo Chailly, La Scala (Hardy Classic) * Gounod: '' Roméo et Juliette'' (as Juliette; 2008).

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC (; born Yannick Séguin;David Patrick Stearns, "Nezet-Seguin signs Philadelphia Orchestra contract". ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', 19 June 2010. 6 March 1975) is a Canadian ( Québécois) conductor and pianist. He ...

(Deutsche Grammophon) * Verdi: ''

'' (as Gilda; 2008).

Leo Nucci Leo Nucci (born 16 April 1942) is an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with Verdi and ''Verismo'' roles. Biography Born at Castiglione dei Pepoli, near Bologna, Nucci studied with Giuseppe Marchese. He made his stage debut ...

. Massimo Zanetti,

( Unitel Classica) * Bellini: ''

'' (as Elvira; 2009).

(

Decca Decca may refer to: Music * Decca Records or Decca Music Group, a record label * Decca Gold, a classical music record label owned by Universal Music Group * Decca Broadway, a musical theater record label * Decca Studios, a recording facility in W ...

) * Gounod: ''Roméo et Juliette'' (as Juliette; 2011). Stefano Secco. Fabio Mastrangelo,

Arena di Verona The Verona Arena ( it, Arena di Verona ) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy built in 30 AD. It is still in use today and is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the be ...

(BelAir Classiques) * Puccini: ''

'' (as Musetta; 2012). Anna Netrebko.

, Salzburg Festival (Deutsche Grammophon; Unitel Classica)

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Nino Machaidze
at Zemsky Green Artists Management
Nino Machaidze
at Opéra National de Paris {{DEFAULTSORT:Machaidze, Nino 1983 births Living people Musicians from Tbilisi Operatic sopranos from Georgia (country) Expatriates from Georgia (country) in Italy Tbilisi State Conservatoire alumni Sony Classical Records artists 21st-century women opera singers from Georgia (country)