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Maria Katzarava (born 1984)〔 is an opera singer from Mexico who achieved international fame by winning first place at Canada’s Operalia competition in the opera and zarzuela categories. Prior to this, she came to the attention of notable Mexican tenor Ramón Vargas, who helped her get a scholarship, and then won Mexico’s Carlo Morelli national singing competition in 2005, which earned her a debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Since winning the Operalia competition, Katzarava has performed in Europe, where she currently lives, Asia and the Americas. She currently trains with soprano Mirella Freni. ==Life== Born and raised in Mexico City, Katzarava’s full name is María Alejandra Katzarava Hernández. She comes from a family of musicians and doctors, the granddaughter of a professional baritone and the daughter of professional violinists. Her father, Archil Katzarava, is from Georgia (former Soviet Union) and her mother, Velia Hernández, Mexican.〔 While pregnant with Maria, her mother attended all the concerts of Mexico’s national orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, of which she was a violinist along with her husband.〔 At age three, her father began to teach her to play the violin, and later she began to learn piano along with her older sister Lela.〔 At age eight she had her first concert as a violinist with the Orquestra Juvenil de la Escuela Nacional de Música.〔 Katzarava continued to study the violin for 20 years, but in 2013, gave up the instrument because of the demands of her singing career, as she played only for her own pleasure.〔 She continues to play the piano as part of her singing practice.〔 In her childhood and adolescence she did not have many friends, as her violin studies and her studies at the Liceo Franco Mexicano school took up all of her time. Katzarava states that this prepared her for later life on the road. She says that she has been very sure of herself since she was a child and never thinks about failure when she is on the stage. She learned to overcome stagefright with her first rehearsal thinking of a stage appearance as a party. Despite the time spent in her childhood in music, Katzarava wanted to be a doctor growing up and began to prepare herself for this career in high school, but that changed when she began to study singing.〔 She had always liked to sing as a child and one of her idols was singer Ana Torroja of the pop group Mecano.〔〔 Her interest in operatic singing was initially sparked by seeing her first opera, ''La bohème'', at age 12, after which she asked her mother for singing lessons. However, she had to wait three years for her voice to mature, and age at 15 began studying under Veracruz soprano Rosario Andrade.〔〔〔 She maintained her interest during these three years because she felt she could not express herself sufficiently with the violin, she was intrigued by the development of her own voice and opera attracted her because of the acting component.〔〔 When she sung her first aria, she fell in love with the “gymnastics” of it.〔 At age 17, she began to study with Maritza Alemán at the Escuela Superior de Música〔 and later with baritone Gabriel Mijares and American maestro James Demster.〔〔 Her parents have been supportive of her career,〔 which has taken her out of Mexico to live since 2008. She currently lives in Barcelona.〔 Katzarava spends most of her time traveling, but she does not complain as her career allows her to visit many countries. In addition to Spanish, she speaks Georgian, English, French, Italian and Russian.〔 During the off-season she likes to travel, go to the theater, see her friends and family and likes just to spend time at home. She also likes to camp, mountain bike, swim and go to the gym.〔 She originally performed under the name of María Alejandres but returned to her real last name in 2014.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maria Katzarava」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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