Daniela Nineva

Engagements in Sofia and Plovdiv in 2014 and 2019 brought Daniela Nineva together with the Sofia National Opera, in casts including Roxana Herrera, Kostadin Mechkov, Darina Linkova and Shin Je Bang. She shared concerts with Raina Kabaivanska in both cities that first year, and was among the singers in the gala that closed Kabaivanska's Sofia masterclass in September 2019. She comes from Stara Zagora and studied bassoon at the Hristina Morfova school there before taking up singing with Antonella Cesari at the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in L'Aquila, the Kabaivanska masterclasses then bringing a scholarship for further study in Modena. In 2017 she won the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale's European Community competition in Spoleto, where she was cast as Frida in John Palmer's Re di Donne two years later, and in 2020 she joined the Stara Zagora Opera, appearing early on as Emilia in Otello.