Ana Barbudeva

Programmed into the festive concert given at Plovdiv on 6 September 2004 for the anniversary of the Unification of Bulgaria, Ana Barbudeva appeared as a soloist with the Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra, on an evening she shared with Angel Stankov and Yosif Radionov. She sang as a child in the Detska Kitka choir and later appeared in France and Germany with the piano duo of Anastas and Dora Slavchev. Her teaching of opera singing has been at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv, she has run the Paldin competition for young opera singers, and in 2017 she joined the staff of the children's music-theatre programme at Plovdiv Opera.