David Badridze
David Badridze | |
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დავით ბადრიძე | |
| Born | 4 April 1899 Kutaisi, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 26 January 1987 (aged 87) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Resting place | Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, Moscow |
| Occupations | Operatic tenor, voice teacher |
| Years active | 1923–1948 |
David "Datiko" Giorgis dze Badridze (Georgian: დავით ბადრიძე; 4 April 1899 – 26 January 1987) was a Georgian operatic tenor and voice teacher. A lyric tenor, he was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1943.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Badridze was born on 4 April 1899 in Kutaisi, then part of the Kutaisi Governorate of the Russian Empire.[1] He graduated from the medical faculty of Tbilisi State University in 1924 and from the Tbilisi State Conservatoire in 1926, where he studied in the class of Yevgeny Vronsky.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Badridze was a soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre from 1926 to 1934, making his debut as the Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto.[2] After singing at the opera house in Sverdlovsk from 1934 to 1936, he returned to Tbilisi until 1944, and was then a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow from 1944 to 1948; from 1937 he was also a soloist of the USSR State Philharmonic.[1][2] He left the stage in 1948.[2]
His roles included Malkhaz in Paliashvili's Daisi; the Duke in Rigoletto and Alfredo in La traviata (Verdi); the title role in Gounod's Faust; Gérald in Delibes's Lakmé; Hoffmann in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann; the title role in Massenet's Werther; and Lensky in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.[2] He also appeared in the 1944 film Jurgha's Shield, directed by Siko Dolidze and David Rondeli, the roles for which he received the Stalin Prize.[1]
Teaching
[edit]From 1952 Badridze taught at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow.[1] In 1957–1958 he was sent as a vocal pedagogue to North Korea and to North Vietnam, where he helped establish a national opera company and staged Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, the first opera production in Vietnam.[1][2] From 1962 he taught at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, becoming a professor in 1972, and from 1967 to 1970 he worked at the Cairo Conservatory in Egypt to help develop national vocal training there.[1][2]
Awards and honours
[edit]- Honoured Artist of the Georgian SSR (1943)
- People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1943)
- Stalin Prize, First Class (1950), for the film Jurgha's Shield
Personal life
[edit]Badridze's son, Gia Badridze (1928–1999), was a Georgian actor, screenwriter and journalist.[1] Badridze died in Moscow on 26 January 1987 and was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Georgia: Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Tbilisi. 1997. p. 324 (in Georgian).
- Encyclopedic Dictionary of Georgian Music. Tbilisi. 2015. p. 54 (in Georgian).
