Video: How prominent tenor Zurab Sotkilava almost lost his large family to music
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Today, March 12, the great opera singer Zurab Sotkilava turns 79. His biography is unique. He has been playing football professionally since the age of 15 and became the champion of the Soviet Union with Dynamo Tbilisi. This did not prevent him from entering the Tbilisi Polytechnic Institute at the Mining Faculty and successfully graduating from it. But his real vocation was music. True, because of this, he almost lost his large Georgian family. As it was in one of the interviews, Zurab Lavrentievich himself told.
“In 1960, on June 10, I passed my final exams at the Polytechnic University, on the 11th we celebrated it very vigorously, and on the 12th I was singing at the exam at the conservatory. After the speech, the rector came up and said:“You were sent to us by God.” if I know solfeggio. I honestly said no. You, he says, do not go to the exam tomorrow without me. He brought me into the office and tells the examiners that he talked to me himself, examined me and I am sure that I I know. When we left, I asked him why "4" and not "3." No, son, he says you should get a scholarship! A very good person.
And so I come to a village where only Sotkilava live. They laid a huge table for about 50 people. And my uncle hoped that after graduating from the Polytechnic Institute, I would return to my homeland and get a job in the police as a big boss. And why did he want it - but he loved to violate. I hoped that he would drive for pleasure. And I went to the conservatory! And now everyone is sitting at the table - complete silence. The grandmother asks: "You entered somewhere … Is this a continuation of an engineer?" No, I say, first I study. Silence. "Are you going to work?" - "No, just learn." Silence … "What are you going to learn?" - "Sing". There is a tradition, when someone dies, to pinch oneself by the face as a sign of grief, as if tearing one's hair. And after my answer, my grandmother began to do so.
For about five minutes everyone is silent. "How long do you need to study there?" - "Five years old, grandmother." - "Oh, what song is so long that you have to study it for five years ?!" In short, everyone got up and left. Uncle stopped communicating with me. Quite a few years have passed, I have already graduated from the conservatory, completed an internship in Italy, won the Golden Orpheus in Spain. And as a laureate, I am invited to Minsk to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the party. We are standing in the square near some stele, to which the delegations are laying flowers. Brezhnev went first. But for some reason he did not reach the monument, he stopped. And it so happened that when the Georgian delegation went, I found myself next to Leonid Ilyich. And we were photographed like that. The next day there is a huge photo on the front page of Vecherny Minsk: me and Brezhnev. I bought some copies and sent them to my uncle. Soon they call me from the village and say that my uncle ran around the village with this photo and shouted: "Look, what heights my Zurik has reached!" Since then we have renewed our relationship."
To the attention of our readers is a fragment of the performance of the People's Artist of the USSR Zurab Sotkilava in the Small Hall of the Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky.
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