MIROSLAVA YORDANOVA

The mezzo-soprano Miroslava Yordanova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and studied piano and singing there at the High School of Music and the State Academy. After graduating she became a principal singer at the Sofia National Opera. Her broad-ranging operatic repertoire encompasses rôles from Mozart to Stravinsky, and concert engagements have included many contemporary works. In 2006 she performed the rôle of Fyodor in Boris Godunov at the Monte Carlo Opera, and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Riva Festival. She has also performed La Cenerentola at La Fenice and the rôle of Il musico in Donizetti’s Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali at the Dordrecht Belcanto Festival in Holland. In Bulgaria her operatic rôles have included Rosina, Idamante, the Female Neighbour (Stravinsky’s Mavra), the Mother (Hänsel und Gretel) and Maddalena (Rigoletto). She has performed in the opera houses at Varna and Rousse. Miroslava Yordanova has appeared with many orchestras in concerts in Sofia, Italy and France. She was chosen as one of the Voices of the Future, presented by Gena Dimitrova, and won the Future for Bulgaria Special Prize at the 12th Boris Christoff Competition for young opera singers. She also was the Bulgarian representative in the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2001. She won the Special Prize at the Riccardo Zandonai competition in 2005.

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