Daria Akulova

Daria Akulova's 2021 with the Sofia National Opera took her to both Sofia and Plovdiv, in casts that included Galina Ovchinnikova, Vincenzo Spinelli, Chiara Mogini and Andrea Barbato. The Ukrainian soprano trained at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy in Kyiv and went on to study with Tanja Baumgartner in Bern, and it was Raina Kabaivanska's masterclass that brought her to Bulgaria in 2021. In September 2024 she joined the Paris Opera Academy, where she sang Arminda in Mozart's La finta giardiniera and appeared in concerts at the Palais Garnier; her earlier parts include Marfa in The Tsar's Bride and Amour in Orphée et Eurydice. In 2025 she took part in an exchange with the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann programme in New York and a tour in Brazil.