Ala Simonishvili
Opera singer, pianist and voice teacher
Ala Simonishvili (Ala Simoni) is a Georgian-born opera singer, pianist and voice teacher who lives and works in Italy. She graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatoire as a pianist and opera singer and continued her studies in Italy at the International Osimo Opera Art Academy, at the International Academy of Singing in Pesaro (named after Renata Tebaldi and Mario Del Monaco) and at the G. Rossini State Conservatory of Music in Pesaro, where she received her master’s degree.
She is a prize-winner of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, the Giacomo Lauri Volpi International Competition in Latina and the “Castello di Duino” International Singing Competition in Trieste, and has performed in Europe, South Africa, South Korea and Japan. Her opera roles include Lucia di Lammermoor, Alcina, Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Amenaide (Tancredi), Elvira (I Puritani), Violetta (La Traviata) and Mimì (La Bohème). Her concert repertoire ranges from Bach’s Passions and Handel’s Messiah to the Requiems of Mozart and Verdi, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony, and she has made recordings for labels in Italy, Switzerland and Germany.
Since 1997 she has taught voice at the International Osimo Opera Art Academy and the International Academy of Singing in Pesaro, and she is an invited professor of vocal art at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. She has worked for several years as a coach-repetiteur and singing coach at the State Academic Opera Theatre in Astana (Kazakhstan), is a permanent jury member of international singing competitions, gives masterclasses and has staged operas by Pergolesi, Mozart and Donizetti in Gubbio, Italy.
At MasterLab 2026 she gave lectures and masterclasses in opera directing and vocal performance.