Georgian soprano Ketevan Chuntishvili studied at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media under Marek Rzepka. In 2021 she was awarded the XIX. International Singing Competition Ada Sari in Poland with the Mozart Prize and Second Prize, and in 2022 she was awarded the Max Grünebaum Prize in Cottbus. In 2020 and 2021, the soprano was a scholarship holder of the Lied Academy of the International Music Festival "Heidelberger Frühling" under the direction of Thomas Hampson. The Georgian soprano made her operatic debut in 2020 as the 5th Maid in Strauss' Elektra at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. This was followed by a permanent engagement at the Staatstheater Cottbus, where she appeared on stage as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème and Roksana in Szymanowski's Król Roger. In 2022, she made her house debut at Staatsoper Hannover as Susanna and returned as Musetta and Powaricha in Rimsky-Korsakov's Tsar Saltan. So far, she has worked with directors such as Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Jasmina Hadžiahmetović, Barbora Horáková, Cesare Lievi and Stephan Märki, as well as with conductors such as Nicholas Carter, Giulio Cilona, James Hendry, Kamal Khan, Alexander Merzyn and Stephan Zilias. Ketevan Chuntishvili is being a member of the ensemble at Staatsoper Hannover from the 2023/24 season. She has already performed there as the 1st Flowermaid & 1st Knappe in Wagner's Parsifal and as Pamina.
