Maddie & Tae - No Place Like You

MCHEDLIDZE Dmitry Semenovich [p. 1 (14) I 1904, Kutaisi] - Soviet singer (bass), director, teacher. Nar art.Cargo. SSR (1954). Ch. CPSU since 1951. Dep. Top. Council Cargo. SSR of the 4th, 5th and 8th convocations. In 1932 he graduated from Leningrad. conservatory in the class of singing at P.Z. Andreev. In 1927-33, the soloist of the Leningrad. opera and ballet theater; in 1933-52 - the Bolshoi Theater (where in 1950-52 he was the head of the opera company and the repertoire). In 1952-1973 director, soloist and director Gruz. Opera and Ballet Theater, in 1969-73 also the director of its branch - Kutaisi Opera House. M. performed leading bass parts, among them - Melnik, Konchak, Galitsky, Boris Godunov, Gremin; Ivan the Terrible (“The Pskovite Woman”), Tsar Saltan (“The Tale of Tsar Saltan”), Wotan (“Valkyrie” by Wagner), Mephistopheles (“Faust”), Marseille (“Huguenots”), Tsangala (“Daisi” Paliashvili), Bodies [“Patara Kakhi” (“Little Kakhetian”) Gokieli], Krivonos (“Bogdan Khmelnitsky” by Dankevich), etc. As a director post.at the Georgian Opera and Ballet Theater: “Mermaid” (1959), “Daisi” (1960), “La Traviata” (1961) and others. Since 1954 he has been teaching at the Tbilisi Conservatory (since 1962 assistant professor); Among his students are many famous singers.