Awards
2012 - laureate of the Lado Ataneli International Vocal Competition (Tbilisi).
2017 - laureate of the XI Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (1st prize; Saint-Petersburg).
2017 - laureate of the XI Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (1st prize; Saint-Petersburg).
Biography
Born in Batumi (Georgia), Goderdzi studied piano and trumpet at the music school and choral conducting at the Batumi Z. Paliashvili Music CollegeIn 2003-10, he joined the Adjarian Song and Dance State Company.
In 2007-10, he was a soloist with the Batumi Opera Studio, where sang Doctor Grenvil in Verdi’s La Traviata and Tsangala in Paliashvili’s Daisi.
In 2010-15 — a soloist with the State Academic Ensemble Rustavi of Georgian Folk Song and Dance.
In 2015-16, Goderdzi Janelidze joined the Bolshoi Theatre Young Artists Program.
In 2017-18, he was soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.
Repertoire
At the Bolshoi Theatre:The Third Actor, The Third Robber (Banevich’s The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Mill-hand, Policeman, Officer (Shostakovich’s Katerina Izmailova)
Laura's Guest, A Monk (Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest)
Carlotto (Donizetti’s Don Pasquale)
Colline (Puccini’s La Boheme)
Doctor Grenvil (Verdi’s La Traviata)
A Monk (Verdi’s Don Carlo)
Innkeeper (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut)
Brander (Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust)
Konchak (Borodin’s Prince Igor)
Nikitich (Mussurgsky’s Boris Godunov)
Repertoire also includes:
Tsangala (Paliashvili’s Daisi)
Don Basilio (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Sarastro (Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte)
Zuniga (Bizet’s Carmen)
Sparafucile (Verdi’s Rigoletto)
Banco (Verdi’s Macbeth)
Creonte (Cherubini’s Médée)
Grandfather Frost (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden)
Konchak (Borodin’s Prince Igor)
Bass solo in Rossini’s Stabat Mater
Tours
In 2016, Goderdzi Janelidze performed Banco (Verdi’s Macbeth) at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus (Minsk) within the framework of the Minsk International Christmas Opera Forum.He participated in Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Cherubini’s Médée (Creonte) at the Al Bustan International Festival of Music & Performing Arts (Beirut, Lebanon).
In July 2017, he debuted as Zaretsky and Captain in Eugene Onegin concert performance on the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company tour to Aix-en-Profence and Savonlinna Opera Festivals (conductor – Tugan Sokhiev).
All in group
- Ildar Abdrazakov
- Simone Alberghini
- Sergey Artamonov
- Krzysztof Bączyk
- Vladimir Baykov
- Dmitry Beloselsky
- Graeme Broadbent
- José Coca Loza
- Luigi De Donato
- Nahuel Di Pierro
- Nikolay Didenko
- Giovanni Furlanetto
- Ferruccio Furlanetto
- Günther Groissböck
- Goderdzi Janelidze
- Nikolai Kamensky
- Andreas Bauer Kanabas
- Mikhail Kolelishvili
- Vadim Kravets
- Felix Kudryavtsev
- Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev
- David Leigh
- Carlo Lepore
- Liang Li
- Simon Lim
- Pyotr Migunov
- Evgeny Nikitin
- Adam Palka
- Mikhail Petrenko
- Luca Pisaroni
- Giovanni Romeo
- Gidon Saks
- Erwin Schrott
- Miklós Sebestyén
- Andrei Serov
- Taras Shtonda
- Stanislav Shvets
- Rafał Siwek
- Evgeny Stavinsky
- Alexandros Stavrakakis
- Alexander Teliga
- Hayk Tigranyan
- Alexei Tikhomirov
- Stanislav Trofimov
- Nicola Ulivieri
- Dmitry Ulyanov
- Andrei Valenty
- Alexander Vinogradov
- Derek Welton
- Oliver Zwarg