Born in Tbilisi and the daughter of the famous Georgian baritone Avtandil Javakishvili who was her first teacher, Tamar Iveri has been acclaimed througout the world in theaters which include the Vienna State Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera Bastille, Paris, and many others as well as at the Salzburg Festival and at the Arena di Verona. In December of 2011 she will make her debut at  the Teatro alla Scala in one of her most famous roles, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, under DanielBarenboim. Iveri has been praised for a wide repertoire which also include other Mozart roles such as   Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte,  Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito,  as well as Elisabetta in Don Carlos,  Amelia in Simon Boccangra, Desdemona in Otello,  Mimi in La Boheme,  the title role in Suor Angelica, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and the title role in Adriana Lecouvreur.
In the fall of 2010 Tamar Iveri sang the title role in Suor Angelica in a new production of Il Trittico at the Opera Bastille in Paris. She returned to Paris in July of 2011 as Desdemona and appeared at the  Hamburg State Opera as as Tatyana and at the Teatro Perez Galdo in Las Palmas where she sang her first Lucrezia in Verdi’s I Due Foscari at the. Iveri was also heard as Elettra in Idomeneo in concert performances under Thomas Hengebrock in London, Baden-Baden and  Wurzburg.  Iveri had sung her first performances of the the role in the winter of 2010 in Paris.

Tamar Iveri  began the 2010/2011 season with her first Leonora il Il Trovatore at the National Theatre in Tokyo . After her debut as Donna Anna., she will also sing her first Luisa Miller at La Scala in June of 2012 .  She will make her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in December. This season Iveri also sings Eugene Onegin  at the  Enescu Festical in Bucharest and La  Clemenza  di Tito in Toulouse. Future projects  include a return to La Scala for her first Alice Ford in Falstaff,  Don Carlos in Toulouse  Eugene Onegin in Hamburg. She will make her debut at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen as Suor Angelica.

Tamar Iveri completed her vocal and musical studies at the Conservatory in Tbilisi where her teachers were Iveta Gersamia and Gotscha Bejuashvili. She made her professional operatic debut in Batumi as Desdemona in Otello. She was subsequently heard  as Desdemona in Tbiilisi as well and this role has become one of her most famous portrayals. Iveri first came to the attention of the European musical world when she won Second Prize at the Voci Verdiane in Busseto and first prize at the Mozart Competition in Salzburg, where she met legendary soprano Ileana Cotrubas who has been Ms Iveri’s mentor ever since. Tamar Iveri debuted in Germany in Bonn as Elisabetta in Don Carlos and then joined the ensemble of the Graz Opera where her first role was Desdemona. She developed her operatic repertoire there to include Adriana Lecouvreur, Eugene Onegin, Suor Angelica, La Clemenza di Tito, Don Giovanni and Simon Boccanegra. She was soon invited to make her important international debuts: as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera, at the Semper Oper, Dresden, Hamburg State Opera and in Madrid; as Desdemona at the Berlin State Opera, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Choregies’d’Orange, and  we all with the Teatro alla Scala in Japan under Riccardo Muti; as Mimi in La Boheme at the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Arena di Verona and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, a role she has also sung in Berlin,Vienna and Parma.  Iveri debuted at the Opera de Paris as Elisabetta in Don Carlos, at the Bavarian State Opera as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and in Houston where she sang her first Marguerite in Faust.  She has been a frequent guest to the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse where her roles also included her first Suor Angelica. Her roles in Vienna have also included Donna Anna and Nedda as well as Tatyana in the new production of Eugene Onegin under  Ozawa in 2009. She has also returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Donna Anna and Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito and debuted at the Arena di Verona as Mimi in La Boheme, later returning in 2010 as Liu in Turandot.  Iveri made her her Paris Opera debut as Elisabetta in Don Carlos and her Houston debut in  her first performances of Marguerite in Faust.

Iveri has collaborated with many of the most eminent conductors of our day such as Antonio Pappano, Kent Nagano, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Marco Armiliato, Seiji Ozawa , Sir Colen Davis, Daniel Oren, Nicola Luisotti, Gianftranco Noseda and many others.  She has often heen heard in Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9  and Rossini’s Stabat Mater.  Other roles in her developing repertoire include Amelia in Un Ballo n Maschera, Leonora in La Forza del Destino and the title role in Norma.