Aleksandrina Mihaylova

At fourteen she began singing lessons with Nedka Telbizova at the Anastas Stoyanov arts school in her native Shumen, having reached them by way of the piano and several years in the Bodra Pesen children's choir. Raina Kabaivanska heard her in 2016 and took her into her master class, the youngest singer in the room; from 2017 Mihaylova studied with her in Sofia and, on a scholarship, at the Vecchi-Tonelli Institute in Modena. Prizes followed at the Ghena Dimitrova competition and, in 2021, at the Eta e Paolo Limiti competition in Milan, where she took first place. That same year she entered the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, singing Musetta and appearing in Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto in September 2022. Her Sofia debut had come in December 2021, as Liù in Turandot at the National Opera, where she has since sung in La bohème and La traviata. Born in 1998, she won the Franz Schubert competition in Rousse in 2014 and graduated from the Vecchi-Tonelli Institute with honours in 2021. The Magda Olivero competition in Milan gave her its first prize and audience award in November 2024, and she sang Violetta at the EcoTeatro in Milan in March 2025 and afterwards in Stara Zagora, at the Ancient Theatre in Plovdiv and in Savigliano. Norina followed in Varna and Chiasso, Gilda in Varna, and Nina Berberova and Marina Tsvetaeva in Silvia Colasanti's Anna A. at La Scala; she sings as a soloist of the State Opera in Varna. She joined the State Opera in Varna as a soloist in 2024.