People’s Artist of the USSR Lamara Chkonia has passed away
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Lamara Grigoryevna Chkonia, a famous Soviet Georgian singer, teacher and People’s Artist of the USSR, died on March 14 at the age of 94. Her youngest daughter, singer Eteri Lamoris, announced this on social networks.
Farewell to Lamara Chkonia will take place on March 16 at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theater.
Chkonia was born on December 27, 1930 in Batumi. She was a soloist at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theater from 1956 to 1960 and since 1968, as well as the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater from 1960 to 1968. Her repertoire included about four hundred compositions by Russian, Georgian and foreign composers, and she actively toured abroad.
Since 1976, Chkonia taught at the Tbilisi Conservatory, and since 1987 – as a professor. She was a laureate of the All-Union Glinka Vocal Competition in Moscow (1960), the vocal competition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival (1960), the Madama Butterfly International Competition in Tokyo (1967) and many other competitions.
Chkonia was also named People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1963) and People’s Artist of the Georgian SSR (1970). Her most famous roles are Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, the leading role in Iolanta, Violetta in La Traviata and many others.
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