Sonya Yoncheva ( bg, Соня Йончева; born 25 December 1981) is a
Bulgaria
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n operatic
soprano.
Early life
Yoncheva was born in
Plovdiv, Bulgaria. From the age of 6, she was "working", according to her own words from an interview for ''Metropolis''.
She studied piano and voice at the National School for Music and Dance in Plovdiv. During her teenage years, she hosted a Bulgarian television show about music.
She won several music competitions in Bulgaria in 2000 and 2001, including a joint win with her brother as "Singers of the Year 2000" in the "Hit-1" competition organised and produced by
Bulgarian National Television
The Bulgarian National Television ( Bulgarian: Българска национална телевизия, ''Balgarska natsionalna televizia'') or BNT (БНТ), stylized as ·Б·Н·Т· since 2018, is a public television broadcaster of Bulgari ...
.
She took advanced studies in classical singing with Danielle Borst at the
Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
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and obtained the master's degree in 2009.
Career
Yoncheva was an invited participant in
William Christie's "Jardin des Voix" academy for young singers in 2007.
She has continued work in the baroque repertoire with Christie, and also with
Emmanuelle Haïm.
Yoncheva was the female first-place winner of the 2010
Operalia
Plácido Domingo's Operalia, The World Opera Competition is an annual international competition for opera singers. Founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo, the competition's varied prizes have been given to known artists such as Joseph Calleja, Rol ...
competition and the special CulturArte prize. In May 2011, she portrayed Cleopatra in a co-production of ''
Giulio Cesare
''Giulio Cesare in Egitto'' (; , HWV 17), commonly known as ''Giulio Cesare'', is a dramma per musica (''opera seria'') in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1724. The libretto was written by Nic ...
'' by the and , performances of which also took place at the
Royal Opera of Versailles
The Royal Opera of Versailles () is the main theatre and opera house of the Palace of Versailles. Designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, it is also known as the Théâtre Gabriel. The interior decoration by Augustin Pajou is constructed almost entirely ...
. In June she performed in ''
L'elisir d'amore'' as Adina as part of Festival Nuits Musicales Sainte Victoire in
Peynier.
Her debut at the
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is oper ...
was in November 2013 when she stepped in as Gilda in ''
Rigoletto
''Rigoletto'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play '' Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had co ...
'', in advance of her previously scheduled official debut. In 2014 at the Met, she sang her stage role debut as Mimì (''
La bohème
''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '' quadri'', '' tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep ...
'') in November and shared the role of Violetta (''
La traviata'') in December. In 2015 she appeared as Desdemona in the season opening production of ''
Otello'' the Metropolitan Opera and in September 2016 she made her debut as ''
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'' at the
Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. It is the home of The Royal Ope ...
, where she sang Antonia in ''
Les contes d'Hoffmann
''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (French: ) is an by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work; he died in ...
'' in November of the same year.
In June 2017 she made her debut at the
Teatro alla Scala as Mimì in ''La bohème''.
She made her role debut in the title role of Puccini's ''
Tosca
''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language drama ...
'' at the Metropolitan Opera for their 2017/18 season to great critical acclaim. Yoncheva set a record as first singer to appear in leading roles in three movie-theater broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera in one season (Tosca, Mimi in La bohème and Luisa Miller in the 2017/18 season).
Other role debuts in the 2017/18 season include ''
Luisa Miller
''Luisa Miller'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play ''Kabale und Liebe'' (''Intrigue and Love'') by the German dramatist Friedrich von Schiller.
Verdi's initial idea for ...
'' at the Metropolitan Opera and Élisabeth de Valois in ''
Don Carlos
''Don Carlos'' is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play '' Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien'' (''Don Carlos, Infante of Spain'') by Fried ...
'' at the
Paris Opera. For her role debut as Imogene in Bellini's ''
Il pirata
''Il pirata'' (''The Pirate'') is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with an Italian libretto by Felice Romani which was based on a three-act '' mélodrame ''from 1826: ''Bertram, ou le Pirate'' (''Bertram, or The Pirate'') by Charles Nod ...
'' at the
Teatro alla Scala in June 2018, the first production of the piece after a legendary 1958 staging with
Maria Callas as Imogene the press proclaimed that her performance would "surely see Yoncheva enter La Scala's hall of fame alongside Callas".
In summer 2018 Yoncheva sang the role of Poppea in ''
L'incoronazione di Poppea
''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' ( SV 308, ''The Coronation of Poppaea'') is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, and was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni ...
'' at the
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Ama ...
.
Yoncheva began the 2018/19 season performing the title role of ''
Médée
''Médée'' is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille in 1635.
Summary
The heroine of the play is the sorceress Médée. After Médée gives Jason twin boys, Jason leaves her for Creusa. Médée ...
'' in a staging at
Staatsoper Berlin conducted by
Daniel Barenboim. Other performances in 2018/19 included Desdemona in Verdi's ''
Otello'' and the title part of ''
Iolanta
''Iolanta'', Op. 69, (russian: Иоланта, links=no ) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play ...
'' at the
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is oper ...
, Desdemona in a new production for
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is Germany’s largest opera and concert house, with a 2,500 seat capacity.
The building was originally built in 1904 as Baden-Baden central railway station. This building replaced the original railway station whi ...
and at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall as well as Tosca at
Staatsoper Berlin.
In the spring of 2019, Sonya Yoncheva announced that she was expecting her second child in the coming fall as a result of which she did not perform from mid July to November 2019. She returned to the stage for the concerts of the Puccini Gala at the
Elbphilharmonie
The Elbphilharmonie (; "Elbe Philharmonic Hall"), popularly nicknamed Elphi, is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River. It is among the largest in the world.
The new glassy con ...
in
Hamburg
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, the Tchaikovsky Hall in
Moscow
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, and in
Sofia
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. In the 2019/20 season, she performed Mimì in ''
La bohème
''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '' quadri'', '' tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep ...
'' at the
Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. It is the home of The Royal Ope ...
Covent Garden, the title role of ''Médée'' at the
Staatsoper Berlin and as Imogene in ''Il pirata'' to the
Teatro Real
The Teatro Real (Royal Theatre) is an opera house in Madrid, Spain. Located at the Plaza de Oriente, opposite the Royal Palace, and known colloquially as ''El Real'', it is considered the top institution of the performing and musical arts in the ...
in Madrid. Several important role debuts in the 2019/20 and 2020/21 season had to be cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, among them her first
Manon Lescaut
''The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut'' ( ) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of ''Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité'' (''Memoirs and Adventures of a Ma ...
, Leonora in ''
Il trovatore
''Il trovatore'' ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play ''El trovador'' (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was García Gutiérrez's mos ...
'' and ''
Rusalka'' at the
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is oper ...
as well as
Fedora at the
Teatro alla Scala.
In Spring 2020, Yoncheva returned to the stage after the first European lockdown as the soprano soloist of
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
's ''9th Symphony'' at the
Victoria Hall in Geneva, telecast by
Arte
Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture.
It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plu ...
. She also participated in the 2020 edition of
Le Concert de Paris in front of the
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower ( ; french: links=yes, tour Eiffel ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
Locally nicknamed "' ...
in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, performed the title role of ''
La traviata'' at the
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
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and appeared in concert at the
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Ama ...
, at the
Arena di Verona
The Verona Arena ( it, Arena di Verona ) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy built in 30 AD. It is still in use today and is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there.
It is one of the be ...
, in Lucca and Caserta.
In June 2020, Yoncheva announced the creation of her newborn company SY11 and a gala concert organised by the company for August at the Roman Theatre of Plovdiv.
In summer 2020, Sonya Yoncheva and
Rolex
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announced a concert series in aid of musicians affected by the pandemic and the ongoing cancellations. Yoncheva was the host of the "Perpetual Music" concert at the
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
The (), also known as the Berlin State Opera (german: Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from ...
in Berlin in September, featuring 14 singers and instrumentalists.
Engagements until the end of 2020 included solo concerts to open the season of the Würth Philharmoniker and the
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra is the symphony orchestra of Flanders (Belgium), based in the Queen Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp. The orchestra is led by chief conductor Elim Chan and honorary conductor Philippe Herreweghe. The organisation, which is o ...
, the title role of ''
Tosca
''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language drama ...
'' at the
Bayerische Staatsoper
The Bayerische Staatsoper is a German opera company based in Munich. Its main venue is the Nationaltheater München, and its orchestra the Bayerische Staatsorchester.
History
The parent ensemble of the company was founded in 1653, under Ele ...
, the Season Inauguration Gala ''A Riveder le Stelle'' of the
Teatro alla Scala and a Christmas concert hosted by the German president
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Frank-Walter Steinmeier (; born 5 January 1956) is a German politician serving as President of Germany since 19 March 2017. He was previously Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2017, as well as Vice Chan ...
and telecast by
ZDF
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...
.
Sonya Yoncheva began the year 2021 starring in the
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is oper ...
's "Met Stars Live in Concert" streaming concert series, which saw her singing arias and songs from the
Schussenried Abbey in Germany. On French television, she appeared in "Fauteils d'Orchestre" on
France 5
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, before embarking on a series of recitals and concerts throughout Spain, which brought her to
Valencia
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,
Bilbao
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Madrid
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, where she performed her first
Zarzuela concert at the Teatro de la Zarzuela. With the
NOSPR led by her husband
Domingo Hindoyan Domingo Garcia Hindoyan (born in Caracas, February 15, 1980) is an Armenian-Venezuelan conductor and violinist.
Biography
Hindoyan is the son of Domingo Garcia, a Venezuelan violinist and former president of the Orquesta Sinfonica Venezuela, and V ...
, Yoncheva sang
Henri Duparc "L'Invitation Au Voyage" in
Katowice, before starring in the title role of
Tosca
''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language drama ...
at the
Wiener Staatsoper
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. In June, she took part in the Gala "Musiques en Fête" at the
Chorégies d'Orange, telecast by
France 3
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It is made up of a network of regional television services provi ...
. Sonya Yoncheva's busy summer season also included Stephana in
Umberto Giordano
Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 186712 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.
He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera, ''Mari ...
rarity
Siberia
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at the
Maggio Musicale
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (English: Florence Musical May) is an annual Italian arts festival in Florence, including a notable opera festival, under the auspices of the Opera di Firenze. The festival occurs between late April into June annual ...
in Florence, a production of
La traviata at the
Arena di Verona
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It is one of the be ...
that was recorded for telecasts on
ZDF
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and
3sat
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, recitals and concerts in Toulouse, Munich, Baden-Baden, Ljubljana, Montpellier, Sofia, Bucharest and the
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Ama ...
.
Awards and honors
Yoncheva is a Rolex artist and was named
Medici.tv
Medici.tv (stylized as medici.tv), created in 2008, is a video streaming platform for classical music, jazz, and ballet.
Live events
With 150+ live events each year, medici.tv live streams performances by various artists, ensembles and orche ...
's 2017 Artist of the Year. She is also the winner of the 2019 Readers Award of the
International Opera Awards
The International Opera Awards is an annual awards ceremony honouring excellence in opera around the world.
Origins
The International Opera Awards was founded in 2013 by Harry Hyman, a UK businessman, philanthropist and supporter of opera, and ...
. In 2021, Sonya Yoncheva received a number of honors: she was named honorary citizen of her hometown
Plovdiv and received Germany's most important classical music award
Opus Klassik as "Singer of the Year" for her solo album "Rebirth".
She won a Young Artist of the Year award () in 2015
Echo Klassik The Echo Klassik, often stylized as ECHO Klassik, was Germany's major classical music award in 22 categories. The award, presented by the , was held annually, usually in October or September, separate from its parent award, the Echo Music Prize. Th ...
. In 2016, she was awarded the
Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius The Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius is an award conferred by the Republic of Bulgaria.
History
It has had three incarnations :
* first on 18 May 1909 by the Kingdom of Bulgaria,
* second on 13 December 1950 by the People's Republic of Bulga ...
for her "contribution to the field of art". She was one of the recipients of the 13th annual
Opera News Awards. She was presented Award of the Year from the Círculo Críticos de Arte de Chile for her recital at the
Teatro del Lago.
Since November 2021, Sonya Yoncheva is a
UNICEF
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Ambassador for Bulgaria, standing up for the rights of children.
Personal life
Yoncheva married Venezuelan conductor
Domingo Hindoyan Domingo Garcia Hindoyan (born in Caracas, February 15, 1980) is an Armenian-Venezuelan conductor and violinist.
Biography
Hindoyan is the son of Domingo Garcia, a Venezuelan violinist and former president of the Orquesta Sinfonica Venezuela, and V ...
in July 2014 and they live in the
Canton of Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms ...
, Switzerland. The couple have a son, Mateo, born 6 October 2014.
In October 2019, their daughter Sophia was born.
Her younger brother
Marin Yonchev is a former rock singer and is now appearing in operatic concerts alongside Yoncheva.
Discography
Yoncheva is featured on commercial audio recordings on the
Virgin Classics
Virgin Classics was a record label founded in 1988 as part of Richard Branson's Virgin Records.
The unit, along with EMI Classics, was acquired by Universal Music in 2012 as part of the takeover of the EMI Group, however the terms of the Europea ...
label. In November 2013, she signed a recording contract with
Sony Classical
Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records. In 1980, the Columbia Masterworks label was renamed as CBS Masterworks Records. The CBS Records Group was acquired by ...
and has released several solo CDs including:
* 2015: ''Paris, mon amour'',
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana The Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana ( es, Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana), is an orchestra based in Valencia, Spain and the resident orchestra of Valencia’s opera house, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.
History
The Orchestra was create ...
conducted by
Frédéric Chaslin (Sony)
* 2017: ''Handel'',
Academia Montis Regalis,
Alessandro De Marchi (conductor) (Sony)
* 2018: ''The Verdi Album'',
Münchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Massimo Zanetti (Sony)
* 2021: ''Rebirth'',
Cappella Mediterranea conducted by Leonardo García Alarcó (Sony)
* 2022: "Giordano: Siberia",
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conducted by
Gianandrea Noseda
Gianandrea Noseda (born 23 April 1964, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy) is an Italian conductor.
Biography
Noseda studied piano and composition in Milan. He began conducting studies at age 27. He furthered his conducting studies with Donato Renzet ...
On video she appears in DVD releases of
Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is consider ...
's ''
L'incoronazione di Poppea
''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' ( SV 308, ''The Coronation of Poppaea'') is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, and was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni ...
'' and ''
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria'', and of
Pergolesi's ''Il Flaminio''. Additionally, she is featured on Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" and Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" on Deutsche Grammophon.
She can be seen as Desdemona in the Met Opera's
HD streaming video of ''Otello'' (2015). In 2016, she substituted for
Anna Netrebko in
Covent Garden's controversial season opener of
Bellini's ''
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'', issued on DVD by
Opus Arte
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.
On DVD/Blu-Ray, she can also be seen on recordings of
La bohème
''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '' quadri'', '' tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep ...
and
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (French: ) is an by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work; he died in ...
from the
Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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,
Iolanta
''Iolanta'', Op. 69, (russian: Иоланта, links=no ) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play ...
from Paris Opera, and in the ZDF Adventskonzert 2015 from
Dresden
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Documentary
* ''Sonya Yoncheva: Sempre Libera'' (2018). directed by Ema Konstantinova and Georgi Toshev. premiered at the 32nd Kinomania Film Festival in Sofia on 26 November 2018.
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Opéra national de Paris
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1981 births
Living people
Musicians from Plovdiv
Bulgarian operatic sopranos
Bulgarian expatriates in Switzerland
Operalia, The World Opera Competition prize-winners
21st-century Bulgarian women opera singers
Sony Classical Records artists