Цветелина Василева

Bulgarian soprano heard with the Pleven Philharmonic as early as 2006, Tsvetelina Vassileva crossed to Kansas for Wichita Grand Opera's William Tell in February 2014, in a cast that also held Michael Spyres, Lucas Meachem, William Powers and Suzanne Hendrix. Her Bulgarian concert engagements have continued into the 2020s. She trained at the Academy of Music in Sofia and made her debut at the Sofia Opera as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, going on to Elisabetta, Desdemona and Leonora, and she worked with Carlo Bergonzi at the La Scala school in Milan after taking prizes at the Tito Schipa and Francesco Cilea competitions in Italy. She has sung Stravinsky's Les Noces at the Concertgebouw and Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco at the George Weston Recital Hall in Toronto, appeared at the Wexford Festival and under Daniel Oren, Bernard Haitink, Carlo Rizzi and Philippe Jordan, and is a soloist of the Rousse Opera.