Khibla Gerzmava, soprano, was born the 6^th of January 1970 in Pitsunda (Abkhazia). She graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1994 where her teacher was professor Irina Maslennikova and completed her post-graduate course at the Conservatoire in 1996.  Since 1995 she has been a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theater and has become one of the stars of the company.

Ms. Gerzmava is the prize-winner of the international competition “Voci Verdiane” in Italy, 1993, the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition in St. Petersburg, 1994 and she is the winner of the most prestigious competition the Grand Prix of the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, 1994. Her guest performances include appearing as Parasha in Mavra at the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris and as Swan in The Tale of Tsar Saltan at Teatro Comunale in Florence, Italy. Ms. Gerzmava sings the major parts in all the most famous operas both at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater and internationally.