Emil Zhelev

Emil Zhelev's stage roles include parts in Gomes's Salvator Rosa, Marchetti's Romeo e Giulietta, and Joseph Summer's Hamlet. In 2014 the bass appeared at Ruse and in Sofia in performances of Les contes d'Hoffmann shared with the tenor Kaludi Kaludov. He had studied with Nicola Ghiuselev and then in Italy with Evgenia Dundekova and Claudio Desderi, and the rarities of his record include the operas he sang at the Martina Franca festival, while his discs of Gounod, Gomes and Marchetti were made for Dynamic. His Ruse debut was the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo in 2008, he joined the company in 2012 and went on to Mefistofele and Silva in Ernani, and in 2015 he sang Rossini's Stabat Mater there under Nayden Todorov. He died on 22 August 2022.