Anna Kiknadze |

Anna Kiknadze

Anna Kiknadze was born in Tbilisi. She graduated from the conservatory there and began her singing career at the Opera and Ballet Theater named after Z. Paliashvili. On the Tbilisi stage, Anna sang the part of Lyubasha in The Tsar’s Bride and the title role in the opera Carmen. In the future, this role became one of the most successful works of the singer, as the press wrote: “Anna Kiknadze’s Carmen appeared earthly, in love with life, unaware of imminent death. Evidence of this was the intoxicatingly bewitching timbre of her rich, possessing unique properties of mezzo-soprano. Anna Kiknadze is absolutely organic in this role” (SPb Vedomosti edition).

After graduating from the conservatory, Anna won a number of convincing victories in vocal competitions, becoming a diploma winner at the I Republican Competition for Young Performers in Tbilisi and the IV International Competition for Young Opera Singers named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg, and soon a laureate of the International Singing Competition named after S. Moniuszko in Warsaw and the competition for young opera singers Operalia in Paris. In 2001, she represented Georgia at the BBC International Singer of the World competition and was among the finalists.

Since 2000, Anna Kiknadze has been a soloist with the Academy of Young Singers of the Mariinsky Theatre, since 2009 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company.

The singer’s repertoire includes several dozen roles, including Olga in Eugene Onegin, Amneris in Aida, Carmen in the opera of the same name, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Delilah in Samson and Delilah, Polina and the Countess in The Queen of Spades and a lot others. The Wagnerian repertoire is represented by the roles of Frika and Erda (Rhine Gold), Grimgerda (Valkyrie), Floschilde (Death of the Gods), and Klingsor the Fairy Maiden (Parsifal).

Anna has toured with the Mariinsky Theater Company to the USA, England, Austria, Finland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Denmark, France and Brazil, and also performed as a guest soloist in various theaters in Sweden, Austria, Germany and Holland.

Anna Kiknadze was awarded the title People’s Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.