Момчил Караиванов

Momchil Karaivanov, born in 1971, took a degree in Italian philology at the St Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia in 1996 and then read classical singing at New Bulgarian University. From 2001 he studied with Kaludi Kaludov and has taken part in his masterclasses and concerts since. His debut came in 2005 as Alfredo in La traviata at the opera in Stara Zagora, followed by Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas at the Sofia National Opera and the Duke in a concert performance of Rigoletto with the Pazardzhik philharmonic. Macduff in Macbeth, Spoletta in Tosca and Goro in Madama Butterfly came in 2006, and the Italian and French repertory has occupied him at the opera in Ruse since.