Georgi Dinev

Dinev trained in puppet-theatre acting before completing a degree in musical stage direction. Born in Yambol in 1972, he trained as an actor at the Krastyo Sarafov national academy for theatre and film in Sofia, graduating in 1997 in puppet-theatre acting, and sang and played as a soloist of the Stefan Makedonski Musical Theatre until 2000. Private vocal study with Konstantsa Vachkova began in 1998, and a degree in musical stage direction from the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music followed in 2003. Since that year he has been a tenor of the State Opera Stara Zagora, where his roles include Don José and Pinkerton, and from 2016 he has also worked as a director at the State Opera Plovdiv. A laureate of the first Mimi Balkanska competition for young operetta and musical-theatre artists, he has toured Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Denmark and the United States. His first stage appearance came in 1995, in the musical Yan Bibiyan, and Alfredo, Rodolfo and Nemorino stand in the repertoire beside the heavier lyric parts. From 2013 to 2016 he also directed productions at Stara Zagora Opera, including Il trovatore and Carmen.