Ekaterine Buachidze

Georgian mezzo-soprano Ekaterine Buachidze is one of the most promising young opera singers of her generation. In 2025, she won First Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Pepita Embil Zarzuela Prize at the prestigious Operalia competition. A year earlier, she received First Prize and three special awards at the Tebaldi–Gigli–Corelli International Competition in Pesaro.
Ekaterine Buachidze was born in Tbilisi and began her musical career as a soloist with the children's folk choir Little Georgica, with which she won the Grand Prix of Nations in Berlin in 2017. She graduated from the Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire and was a member of the Fabbrica Young Artist Program at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in the 2022/23 season. Since the 2024/25 season, she has been a member of the Bavarian State Opera's Opera Studio in Munich and a scholarship recipient of the Hildegard Zadek Foundation.

Her repertoire includes Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Ariodante (Ariodante), Polina (The Queen of Spades), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Masha (The Queen of Spades), and Glasha (Káťa Kabanová). In 2026, she made her debut as Isaura in Rossini's Tancredi at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.