Борис Тасков

A tenor from Stara Zagora, Boris Taskov has appeared in the touring productions of the State Opera Rousse, and in 2015 alone sang in Puccini's Turandot at the Théâtre Intercommunal in Fréjus in April and at Thionville in October, and in Bizet's Carmen at La Coupole in Saint-Loubès on two consecutive November nights, in companies that included Maria Tsvetkova-Madzharova, Ivan Kabamitov, Dobromir Momekov, Elena Baramova and Momchil Milanov. He came to singing by way of the piano and then the trombone at the Hristina Morfova school, took his degree at the National Academy of Music in Sofia in Ivanka Ninova's class, and learned to act with Hristofor Nedkov's theatre company, later studying singing with Barbara Fuchs and French repertoire with Olivier Dauriat and Vera Nikolova. His first professional engagements were in Stara Zagora, and he has sung outside the opera house as well, with the Yoan Damaskin vocal octet and the rock group Perfect Strangers.