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Mikhail Koleishvili Name: Mikhail Koleishvili

Country: Georgia

Voice: Bass

Date of birth: 22.02.1974

Place of birth: Moscow, Russia

Studied at: Tbilisi State Conservatoire

In 1997, Georgian Mikhail Kolelishvili became a soloist at the Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theatre. He is a laureate of the Second Georgian Competition of Opera Singers (Tbilisi, 1999) and has been a soloist of the Mariinsky Young Singers Academy since 2002.

In 2002 he won a diploma and a special prize at the Fifth Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition of Young Opera Singers in St Petersburg and in 2003 won first prize at the International Elena Obraztsova Competition in St Petersburg. In 2004 he won first prize at the International Stanislav Manushko Competition in Poland.

At the Mariinsky Theatre he has performed Bermate The Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov), Bonze The Nightingale and Bartolo The Marriage of Figaro. He has also sung Banco Macbeth Verdi and The Grand Inquisitor Don Carlos.

(Profile last updated June 2005)

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David Jones in Cwmllynfell, Swansea
Mikhail has a wonderful voice and was worthy of being a finalist. Can consider himself very unlucky to be up against Wendy Dawn-Thompson who could well be in contention to win. Hope Mikhail gets the opportunity to sing the part of Boris Godunov at some stage in his career. Fabulous!

Enrico from Palermo
Great, deep voice and creative personality! Remember this name, dear friends, we are testimony of such rare event as a Big Singers birth is.

Diana Sanderson, Durham
Ifelt this perform was worthy of being a finalist

Marion Watson from North Ayrshire, Scotland
I think Mikhail Koleishvili who performed so well especially his rendition of, 'Madamina, il catalogo è questo' should be considered for the Audience Prize. Wonderful voice!

T. Chessa from Rotterdam
A lot of personality and a great voice. I enjoyed the performance a lot. Your personality was shining through. Great!

susan ryan - reading
I have always loved the bass voice and this singer has IT! Voice and sex appeal. I would like the opportunity to see him perform in person.

Claude in London
I'm afraid I don't quite go for this kind of voice. The vibrato should be there to beautify the voice and not hinder it.

Bernard Tyson
As chair of the Newport Kutaisi Association can I say how pleased we are to see Georgia represented by Mikhail .. good luck to him!!

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Georgian flag This is the fourth time Georgia has been represented in its own right since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.



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