Eugenia Brainova

Cast as the First Maid in Korngold's Violanta, Eugenia Brainova has sung at the Teatro Regio di Torino. In 2005 she appeared in a Sofia concert alongside Raina Kabaivanska. She entered the Children's Radio Choir of Bulgarian National Radio at seven and sang in it until she was eighteen, travelling with it three times to Japan and on to the United States, Hawaii, Mexico, Finland and Germany. She graduated from the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia in the class of the then associate professor Zh. Kostova, and made her stage debut while still a student in the Academy's studio opera theatre, as Susanna and as Serpina. Further study followed in Baden, in Austria, with Eva Blahova, in Raina Kabaivanska's masterclasses in Sofia and in Siena, and at the academy of high vocal mastery attached to the Arena di Verona. She was a winner of the 2009 CantoFestival in Amandola, in the Marche. Italy became her home, and she has sung in Spain, Austria, France, Switzerland, Egypt, Greece, Russia and China.