Христо Сарафов

Since 1983 Christo Sarafov has worked, with interruptions, in the company of the National Music Theatre in Sofia. He took his diploma in classical singing from the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in 1982, in the class of Konstantsa Vachkova, and afterwards worked in Moscow with the Russian baritone Evgeny Kibkalo. He has sung Doctor Bartolo in The Barber of Seville in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, the United States and Guatemala, and his roles also include Leporello in Don Giovanni. His roles in Sofia include Grandfather Liben in Bulgarians of Old Times, Feri Bácsi in The Csárdás Princess, Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Zeus in Orpheus in the Underworld, and Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera. He has also sung with Opera Plovdiv. He was born in Silistra in 1955, and Tevye is another of the roles the theatre has given him.