BIO

GEORGIAN SOPRANO

Tamuna Melanashvili comes from Tbilisi, Georgia. The young soprano was musically encouraged at an early age. She began her vocal training with Prof. Nino Bestaeva at the Micheladze Central Music School in her hometown. She later pursued dual academic paths, studied Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance at the Tbilisi State Conservatory under Prof. Zaal Khelaia, while simultaneously completing a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences at the European University in Tbilisi. She continued her artistic development in Germany completing her Master of Opera at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart (HMDK) with Prof. Ulrike Sonntag.

She participated in various masterclasses and seminars with artists such as Mariella Devia, Anita Rachvelishvili, Margreet Honig, Ildikó Raimondi, Katharina Rössner, Kirsten Schötteldreier, and Burkhard Fritz.

Her stage experience includes roles such as Micaela (Carmen), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Geraldine (A Hand of Bridge), the Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Iolanta (Iolanta), and Zazà (Zazà). 

In June, 2024 she performed the role of Fiordiligi in W.A. Mozart’s Così fan tutte, at Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart.

In October 2025, she made her debut as Juno in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld at the Opera Laiblin in Pfullingen.

She is a prizewinner of the Nodar Andguladze 2nd international competition for young singers (2nd Prize, Laureate), the Otar Taktakishvili open competition in Tbilisi (Laureate), and a finalist at the Franz Lehár Festival Competition in Bad Ischl 2025. She is a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Stuttgart and the Péter Horváth Foundation.

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Tamuna Melanashvili stammt aus Tiflis in Georgien. Die junge Sopranistin wurde früh musikalisch gefördert und erhielt ihren ersten Gesangsunterricht bei Prof. Nino Bestaeva an der Micheladze Musikschule in ihrer Heimatstadt. Anschließend verfolgte sie zwei akademische Wege: Sie studierte Gesang im Bachelorstudiengang am Staatlichen Konservatorium Tiflis bei Prof. Zaal Khelaia und absolvierte parallel dazu ein Bachelorstudium in Geistes-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften an der Europäischen Universität in Tiflis. Ihre künstlerische Entwicklung setzte sie in Deutschland fort und schloss den Masterstudiengang Oper an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (HMDK) bei Prof. Ulrike Sonntag ab.