“With Shavleg Armasi, a magnificent bass was hired for the demanding role of the
title hero. The Georgian singer knew how to convey the fears and the ambiguous characteristics of Boris with admirable theatrical intensity. Thanks to the immense vocal qualities of his colorful vocal organ, which is perfectly focused in all registers and full of rich depth, the finest nuances in the pianissimo areas, and metallic upswings, Armasi succeeded in creating a credible, touching role portrait. One regretted the relatively few scenes with this grandiose singer.”
Gerhard Hoffmann

In November 2025, Shavleg Armasi will make his theater debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein as Zaccaria in Verdis „Nabucco“.

Shavleg Armasi made his last theater debut in 2025 at the Zurich Opera as Getonte di Ravoir in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.

In the 2025/26 season Shavleg Armasi can be seen in Hanover in the new productions of Wagner’s Lohengrin as the King Heinrich, in Verdi’s Il Trovatore as Ferrando and in Puccini’s Turandot as Timur.

Since becoming a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State opera, the bassist has sang roles in his field among others, including Gurnemanz (Parsifal), King Mark (Tristan and Isolde), Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Mefistofele (Boito’s Mefistofele), Méphistophélès (Faust), Méphistophélès (La damnation de Faust), Filippo II (Don Carlo), Ramfis (Aida), Banco (Macbeth), Padre Guardiano (La Forza del destino), Cardinal Brogni (La Juive), Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Raimondo Bidement (Lucia di Lammermoor).

Guest engagements have taken the bass among others at the New National Theater Tokyo and at the Komische Oper Berlin, to the Savonlinna Summer Festival, as well as to the operas in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Lisbon, Basel, St.Gallen the Hamburg State Opera and the State Opera in Wiesbaden, where he made his important debuts for his repertoire as Boris in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and as Hagen in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.

Shavleg Armasi worked under the musical direction of well-known conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Giorgio Morandi, Arthur Fagen, Frédéric Chaslin, Donald Runnicles, Marc Soustrot, Ivan Repusic, Enrico Dindo and with directors such as Berry Kosky, Tatjana Gürbaca, Ingo Kerkhof, Benedikt Von Peter, Frank Hilbrich, Nicolas Briegel, Barbora Horakova, Elisabeth Stöppler, Sandra Leupold, Olivia Fuchs, Evgeny Titov.

The Georgian Bass, Shavleg Armasi studied voice in his hometown of Tbilisi. During his studies in Tbilisi, he was invited to take part and was engaged as a Soloist at the State Opera Tbilisi. His talent was discovered by the artist and entrepreneur, Professor Dr. Claus Hipp, whose support enabled Armasi to take
part in the operastudio of the Kunstuniversität of Graz. One year later Armasi became apart of Graz’s opera house ensemble.