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The Russian soprano, Alisa Gitsba, graduated in 1989 from the vocal department of the Sukhumi musical college and in 1994 from the The Gnesins Russian Academy of Music with a specialization in “Solo Academic Singing” (training course of Professor N. Shilnikova).She is the diploma winner of the International vocalist competition in Perm (1993), Rimsky-Korsakov International Vocal Competition in Saint- Petersburg (1996).
Alisa Gitsba is the soloist of the Moscow musical theatre Helikon-opera since 1993. Now in her repertoire there are over 30, mostly leading, parts: Tatiana and Lisa in P.I. Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Nedda in R. Leoncovallo's Pagliacci, Micaela in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Antonia in J. Offenbach's Les Contes d’Hoffman, Rosalinde in J. Strauss' Die Fledermaus, Mother Marie in Francis Poulenc's Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Emilia Marty in L. Janacek's Vec Makropoulos). The title roles in the operas by G. Verdi play a special part in singer’s repertoire: Violetta in La traviata, Aida in Aida, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.
Alisa Gitsba took part in such music festivals as: December evenings of S. Richter in The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Sacro Art festival in Loccum (Germany), Russian seasons in Nice (France), Russian cinema festival in Monte-Carlo, “Hibla Gerzmava invites” in Sukhumi, festival of the contemporary music “Francophonie” and “In Memory of Edison Denisov” in Moscow, choral festival in memory of B. Tevlin in the Moscow Conservatory, in the subscription of Moscow Conservatory. The significant amilestone in her artistic biography has become her participation in large-scale project - dramatic production “Master-class of Maria Callas”, which was performed with great success for over 70 times in 50 Russian cities and neighboring countries.
There is music of different styles in singer’s concert repertoire: from the Baroque epoch to the nowadays avant-garde. Due to Alisa Gitsba, the following operas has been sounded for the first time: The Blind Swallow by A. Schetinsky, Station by A. Syumak, oratorio Death of the Poet by G. Sidelnikov, Symphony No. 5 by A. Rybnikov, vocal cycles by Edison Denisov, Paul Hindemith, O. Messian and the others. She has co-operated with such outstanding directors as: V. Gergiev, Y. Simonov, V. Ponkin, T. Currentzis, M. Pekarsky, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, E. Brazhnik, E. Mazzola and the others.
The singer has implemented several repository recordings for the Orpheus broadcasting station, with her participation were produced the DVD-disks with the Helikon-opera productions of the opera (Les Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc.
In 2004 for the merits in Russian musical and theatrical art development Alisa Gitsba was awarded a title “Merited Artist of the Russian Federation”, and in 2007 awarded a title People’s Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia. |
