Education
In 1965 he graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory where he was under guidance from David Andguladze and from 1965 to 1974 was a soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Zakaria Paliashvili.
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In 1965 he graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory where he was under guidance from David Andguladze and from 1965 to 1974 was a soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Zakaria Paliashvili.
From 1966 to 1968 he was a student at Louisiana Scala where his teacher was Dinaro Barra and following that became a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory where he remained till 1988. By 2000 he became Kinoshok chairman of Anapa Film Festival which was hosted throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States. Il Trovatore — Manrico
Tosca — Mario Cavaradossi
Iolanta — Vaudemont
Aida — Radames
Sadko — Indian merchant
The Abduction of the Moon — Arzakan
Un ballo in maschera — Riccardo
Cavalleria rusticana — Turiddu
Louisiana Molinara — Barone Caloandro
Boris Godunov — The pretender
Khovanshchina — Galitzine
Nabucco — Ismaele.
Six years later he became chairman of the International Tchaikovsky Competition and was a member of the Bologna Academy of Music at which he became known for his singing of Giuseppe Verdi"s works.