Tatishvili, Tsisana Bezhanovna

Born December 30, 1937 in Tbilisi . Her childhood and youth passed in one of the old districts of Tbilisi - Sololaki . Mom, Ketevan Zandukeli, alone raised Cisana with her brother. According to her stories and memoirs, the children loved their father - Bezhan Tatishvili. The father, who won the beauty contest in Paris, received a military education in Irkutsk, but still returned to his homeland and at one time was in the position of military commissioner. He later led the military department at a state university. On December 30, visiting his wife and newborn daughter, he headed home, after which no one else saw him. Ketevan later found out that her husband was arrested and exiled, and then shot. They lived in constraint. Mother studied in the third year, was forced to leave the university and go to work. The brother of Tsisana, Gogi Tatishvili, was always an example for her to follow. It was on his advice that Cisana became a singer. He was her hottest fan. Together with her, he experienced her every appearance on the stage and was proud of her every success.

Cisana showed interest in singing from the age of five. She was a very shy child and for studying Georgian folk dances and getting used to the stage, her mother sent her to the ensemble of Giano Bagrationi ^[1] (song and dance ensemble), where she danced solo parts for almost a year, the People's Artist of Georgia danced with her Omar Mkheidze. ^[2] They performed at various concerts and delighted fans of Georgian dance and maestro Bagrationi with their plastic, beautiful physique, talent, captivating and graceful dance. Therefore, when she announced to the maestro that she was leaving the ensemble and was going to enter the conservatory in the vocal class, he was very offended, his indignation was obvious, he said angry, he threw: “Also me, the new Nadezhda Kharadze ?!” Tsisana left the ensemble and devoted herself to singing. As a result of intensive studies during the year, she successfully entered the conservatory in the class of Gulnara Kartvelishvili. Being very modest, she could open up for a long time, but despite this she achieved international recognition thanks to her voice.

In 1963 she graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory in singing with G. P. Kartvelishvili (also studied with D. S. Mchedlidze) ^[3] .

In 1963 - 2001 - soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theater .

Her stage partners were: Petre Amiranashvili , David Gamrekeli , Batu Kraveishvili, Zurab Anzhaparidze, Irina Arkhipova , Vladislav Piavko , Irina Bogacheva , Medea Amiranashvili , Vladimir Atlantov , Gegham Grigoryan, Paata Burchuladze , Lamara Chkonibenko , Evgeniya Chkoniyenko , Evgeniya Chkoniyenko , Yevgeniya Chkoniyenko , Evgeniya Chkoniyenko , Evgeniya Chkoniyenko , , ^[4] Yuri Mazurok, ^[5] Elena Obraztsova , ^[6] Nodar Andguladze , Pavel Lisitsiani .

She sang at the Bolshoi Theater - Bolshoi Theater ( Moscow ), Mariinsky Theater (St. Petersburg). Komische Oper , Deutsche Oper Berlin ^[7] . Munich, Cologne, Bonn, Basel, Saarbrücken, Frankfurt, Prague. Vienna (Austria), London (England), Lisbon (Portugal), Sofia (Bulgaria), Budapest ( Hungary), Warsaw (Poland), Athens (Greece), Bucharest (Romania), Rome, Florence, Venice, Busseto (ITALY) , Lithuania (Lietuva), Latvia (Latvija), Estonia.

In 1981, she married George K. Totibadze.

She performed as a concert singer, participated in the performance of monumental works, including the 9th symphony of L. Beethoven , Requiem J. Verdi . The chamber repertoire includes the performance of the novels by P. Tchaikovsky and S.V. Rakhmaninov , works by German and Italian masters, chamber works by O. Taktakishvili and A. D. Machavariani .

Has toured abroad ( Germany , Poland , Czechoslovakia , England , Italy , Spain , Portugal , Austria , Sweden ) ^[8] .

She taught at the Tbilisi Conservatory (professor).

Academician of the Academy of Humanities ^[9] .

In 2010, a star dedicated to Tsisana Tatishvili was installed in front of the building of the Opera and Ballet Theater named after Zakaria Paliashvili (Tbilisi).

The pearl of opera once called the Georgian opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR, mega-star of world ballet Maris Liepa . “When I enter a rehearsal with a ballet troupe, I always say to the dancers: dance as Tsisana Tatishvili sings, and you will certainly achieve great success!” ^[10]

“Cisana is a phenomenon, a brilliant star that glorified the Motherland, Georgian culture. If she had left for Europe at one time, this would have caused a great resonance in the world of opera. Such opera stars as Cisana are born once every hundred years. ”That is how Giga Lortkipanidze , People's Artist of the USSR, spoke of her. ^[eleven]

She died on September 23, 2017 ^[12] , is buried in the Didubian pantheon ^[13] .

Family

• Husband - George Totibadze (1928-2010), artist, Academician, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts , rector of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1972-1982).

• People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1973)
• People's Artist of the USSR ( 1979 )
• Lauret of the State Prize of the Georgian SSR named after Z. P. Paliashvili ( 1979 ) ^[14]
• State Prize of the Georgian SSR named after Shota Rustaveli ( 1987 )
• Order of Honor (Georgia) (2010)
• Presidential Order of Radiance ( Georgia , 2012 ) ^[15]
• Swiss medal
• Prize “Art is Immortality itself” (International Association of Arts “Mzechabuki” and the Maria Callas Society) ^[16]
• Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi (2012) ^[17] .