Darinela Vangelova

Darinela Vangelova is a Bulgarian soprano. On 19 September 2025 she sang in the gala concert of the twenty-fifth Raina Kabaivanska Masterclass at the Sofia National Opera, conducted by Nayden Todorov, taking Liu's aria from Puccini's Turandot in a bill shared with Vittoria Yeo, Baia Saganelidze, Donatella de Luca, Liubov Ostrovska and Alessia Camarin. Born in Burgas in 2003, she studied piano with Zlatina Panteleeva and opera singing with Bilyana Danailova at the National School of Music and Performing Arts "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" there between 2014 and 2022, then entered the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the singing class of Laura Aikin. She has worked in masterclasses with Krassimira Stoyanova, Stefka Evstatieva and Valentin Peychinov, and in September 2025 the Raina Kabaivanska Fund awarded her a scholarship for the 2025/26 year at the Vecchi-Tonelli Conservatory in Modena. Her prizes include the Angel Voice competition in Serbia in 2021 and the Future Stars contest in Italy in 2020. In 2025 she sang the Sandman and the Dew Fairy in Humperdinck's Haensel und Gretel at the Schlosstheater Schoenbrunn, and she has given recitals in Viennese care homes and hospitals for Yehudi Menuhin's Live Music Now.