Hibla Gerzmava is a People’s Artist of Russia, People’s Artist of Abkhazia, State Prize Winner of the Russian Federation. Laureate of the international competitions such as Verdian voices Busseto (Italy), Francesc Viñas in Barcelona, and N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov in Saint Petersburg. In 1994, the singer won the International Competition named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, becoming the first in the history of the competition to win the Grand Prix.
She has performed at the world’s leading opera stages: the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Metropolitan Opera, the Covent Garden, La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opera, the Paris Theater of the Champs-Elysées and the Teatro Châtel, the Real Theater of Madrid, the Barcelona Liceu Theatre, the Roman Opera, the Florentine Komunale Theatre, the Zemper Opera in Dresden, the Bavarian State Opera, the Opera of Zurich, the Sofia Opera, the Ludwigsburg Festival in Germany, and many others.
She toured with concert programs in Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Greece, the USA, Japan, and Turkey. Furthermore, she sang in New York Carnegie Hall, London Cadogan Hall, Paris Gavo Hall, Queen Sophia’s Palace of Art in Valencia, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Concert Hall, Moscow Conservatory Hall, and Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Hall.