Anita Rachvelishvili - Adriana Lecouvreur - “Acerba voluttà, dolce tortura”

Anita Rachvelishvili sings the aria of Princess d'Bouillon from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur.
NYC 01.12.2019
Anita Rachvelishvili
mezzo-soprano (tbilisi, georgia)
This season The Princess of Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur, Amneris in Aida, and Dalila
in Samson et Dalila at the Met; Dalila in Monte Carlo; the title role of Carmen at the
Paris Opera; and concert appearances with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and
Staatskapelle Berlin.
met appearances Azucena in Il Trovatore, Carmen (debut, 2011), and Konchakovna in
Prince Igor.
career highlights Recent performances include Carmen in Athens, Dresden, Tbilisi, and
at the Bavarian State Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago; Amneris in Verona, Turin, Orange,
Tbilisi, and at the Vienna State Opera, Switzerland’s Menuhin Festival Gstaad, and Paris
Opera; Azucena at the Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Covent Garden; Santuzza
in Cavalleria Rusticana in Rome; and Dalila at the Paris Opera. She has also sung Amneris
at the Paris Opera, La Scala, and in Rome; Carmen at the Canadian Opera Company,
Covent Garden, La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, San Francisco Opera,
and in Verona, Beijing, Mannheim, Turin, and Seattle; Marfa in Khovanshchina at Dutch
National Opera; Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride at Staatsoper Berlin; and
the Princess of Bouillon in concert with the Opera Orchestra of New York.