Ketevan Chuntishvili has been a member of the permanent ensemble of the Staatstheater Cottbus since the 2021/2022 season. There she has already embodied the roles of Euridice in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, Roksana in Szymanowski's Król Roger and most recently Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème. In March 2022, she made her debut at the Hanover State Opera, where she repeatedly appeared as Susanna. This season brings another role debut as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Ketevan made her professional operatic debut in 2020 as the 5th Maid in Strauss' Elektra at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. To date, she has worked with directors such as Jasmina Hadžiahmetović, Barbora Horáková, Cesare Lievi, Stephan Märki, Claudia Meyer and Tomo Sugao, as well as conductors including Nicholas Carter, Giulio Cilona, Kamal Khan, Alexander Merzyn and Yannis Pouspourikas. Her concert repertoire includes Bach's Mass in B Minor, Dvořák's Stabat Mater, Haydn's The Seasons and Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn's Paulus, and Mozart's Requiem. Master classes with Lawrence Brownlee, Thomas Hampson, Kamal Khan, Lisette Oropesa, Eleonora Pacetti, Wolfram Rieger, Ludovic Tézier and Stefan Vinke particularly shaped her musical and artistic skills. At the 12th International Singing Competition Immling, the soprano won the 2nd prize & the audience award. She was also a finalist at the international Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition. Most recently, she won the 2nd prize (1st was not awarded) and the Mozart Prize at the 19th Ada Sari International Singing Competition in Nowy Sącz, Poland.
