Anita Rachvelishvili - Adriana Lecouvreur - “Acerba voluttà, dolce tortura”

Anita Rachvelishvili sings the aria of Princess d’Bouillon from Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. NYC Anita Rachvelishvili mezzo-soprano (tbilisi, georgia) This season The Princess of Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur, Amneris in Aida, and Dalila in Samson et Dalila at the Met; Dalila in Monte Carlo; the title role of Carmen at the Paris Opera; and concert appearances with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Staatskapelle Berlin. met appearances Azucena in Il Trovatore, Carmen (debut, 2011), and Konchakovna in Prince Igor. career highlights Recent performances include Carmen in Athens, Dresden, Tbilisi, and at the Bavarian State Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago; Amneris in Verona, Turin, Orange, Tbilisi, and at the Vienna State Opera, Switzerland’s Menuhin Festival Gstaad, and Paris Opera; Azucena at the Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Covent Garden; Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana in Rome; and Dalila at the Paris Opera. She has also sung Amneris at the Paris Opera, La Scala, and in Rome; Carmen at the Canadian Opera Company, Covent Garden, La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, San Francisco Opera, and in Verona, Beijing, Mannheim, Turin, and Seattle; Marfa in Khovanshchina at Dutch National Opera; Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride at Staatsoper Berlin; and the Princess of Bouillon in concert with the Opera Orchestra of New York.