Михаил Пулиев

Mihail Puliev has sung with the Plovdiv Philharmonic, the Sofia National Opera and the State Opera Plovdiv. He took part in a Plovdiv gala in September 2000 that set Bulgarian orchestral music beside opera choruses and arias; he sang in Gounod's Faust at the Sofia Opera across the winter of 2001–02; and in 2018 he appeared in Shostakovich's Katerina Izmailova at the House of Culture in Plovdiv. Puliev was born in Sofia on 21 March 1958 and sang first in his school choir, then in the Bodra Smyana choir. He finished the Lyubomir Pipkov music school in the class of Elisabeth Rutgers in 1978 and graduated in opera singing from the Pancho Vladigerov Academy in 1984, in the class of Elena Kiselova, having worked in 1983 in masterclasses with Lore Fischer and Boris Christoff. He made his operatic debut at the National Opera in 1984 in Il barbiere di Siviglia. In 1985 came second prizes at the Bulgarian singers' competition and at the Maria Callas Competition in Athens, in 1987 third prize at Geneva. He was engaged at the opera in Bern from 1986 and at the Royal Opera of Wallonia in Liege from 1987 to 1991. His connection with the Plovdiv opera dates from 1993, first as guest and then as a staff soloist. He was engaged at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1997–98.