Пламен Райков

Attached to State Opera Varna, Plamen Raykov works across both sides of the company's repertoire, the operatic and the operettic. In December 2023 he sang in The Magical World of the Operetta, a Christmas programme given twice and drawn from Johann Strauss II, Kálmán, Lehár, Offenbach and Suppé. He took his diploma in 1995 from the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music in Sofia, from the singing class of Assoc. Prof. K. Vachkova, and was on professional stages before he finished: Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Ruse opera in 1994 and Alfredo in La traviata at Burgas in 1995. The 1995/96 season he spent as a soloist of the State Opera in Stara Zagora, and in the spring of 1996 he sang Raffaele in the premiere performances of Verdi's Stiffelio at the March Music Days in Ruse. From November 1996 he has been on the staff of State Opera Varna, where his parts have included La traviata, Rigoletto, Nabucco, Otello, Turandot, Die Fledermaus, Bulgarians of the Old Times and Die Csardasfuerstin. He has also sung in a Three Tenors format at festival concerts.