On the opera stage, he has led Attila’s Golden Horde into battle and seized the Russian throne from its hapless tsar. Now Paata Burchuladze prepares for a role he hopes will let him change his home country of Georgia for the better and quite a few of his countrymen are backing him.
“I played so many kings, politicians and powerful people on the stage, from Philip II to Boris Godunov,” he says cheerfully in a deep bass voice. “I will do my best to get the same applause, cheers and compliments in politics that I had on the stage.”
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Source: Newsweek
