Стоил Георгиев

Repeatedly cast in the Sofia Opera's Faust and its Traviata, Stoil Georgiev worked through the house's seasons of 2001 to 2003, appearing in a run of its productions of those years. Georgiev was born in Kyustendil on 17 August 1946 and died in Sofia on 8 March 2021. A bass-baritone, he read singing in the vocal faculty of the State Academy of Music in Sofia with Iliya Yosifov and entered the Sofia company while still a graduand, making his debut there in the title role of Don Giovanni. Méphistophélès in Faust, Scarpia, Escamillo, Bartolo and Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro and Mustafà in L'italiana in Algeri followed, beside a Russian repertory that ran from Tomsky in The Queen of Spades and Prince Galitsky to Varlaam and Ruslan. He sang Zahari in Marin Goleminov's The Icon-Painter Zahari and Beyo in Parashkev Hadzhiev's Lud gidia, and toured with the Sofia company and alone in Europe, Asia and South America.