Baia Saganelidze

Baia Saganelidze qualified first as a pianist, teacher and accompanist, then took bachelor's and master's degrees in voice at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, with an Erasmus period at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Born in Tbilisi in 1994, she went on to Italy and the Conservatorio Vecchi-Tonelli in Modena to study with Raina Kabaivanska, and has sung in concerts, master classes and staged projects connected with Kabaivanska's school. Her repertoire is nineteenth- and twentieth-century opera. She has also read international relations and diplomacy. Her repertoire includes Maddalena, Amneris, Azucena and Flora in Verdi, Cherubino and Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro, Berta, Lyubasha in The Tsar's Bride, and in the Georgian repertoire Nano in Paliashvili's Daisi and Barbare in Dolidze's Keto and Kote, while the Verdi and Mozart Requiems and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater are among her concert works. She has held a scholarship of the Raina Kabaivanska Fund at New Bulgarian University, and in February 2026 she made her debut at the Teatro Comunale Pavarotti-Freni in Modena as the Giovane serva in Wolf-Ferrari's I quatro rusteghi.