Paata Burchuladze | |
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 Paata Burchuladze in 2022 | |
| Chairman of State For The People | |
| In office August 2016 – December 2016 | |
| Preceded by | party established |
| Succeeded by | Nika Machutadze |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 February 1955 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR |
| Occupation | Operatic singer, politician |
| Website | burchuladze |
Paata Burchuladze (Georgian: პაატა ბურჭულაძე; born 12 February 1955) is a Georgian operatic bass and civil activist. After his debut in his native Tbilisi in 1976, he embarked on a 35-year-long musical career during which he made appearances at leading opera houses across Europe and the United States. Through his foundation, he became involved in children charity in Georgia in 2004. From May to December 2016, Burchuladze briefly entered politics of Georgia, founding the political party State for the People to challenge the incumbent Georgian Dream coalition government in the scheduled October 2016 parliamentary election, in which the party failed to win any seat in the legislature. Since July 2017, Burchuladze has been leading the opera division of St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Theatre, one of Russia's oldest opera and ballet houses.