Iliya Devedzhiev

In 2013 and 2015 Iliya Devedzhiev appeared with the State Opera Rousse, in the company's productions at home and on its appearances in Bansko, in casts alongside Stefan Penchev, Krasimir Velichkov, Stoyan Stoyandzhov and Dragomir Atanasov. Born in Topolovgrad and settled in Ruse, he has worked across puppet and dramatic theatre, operetta, musicals, mime and radio, and writes books and plays for children. From 2015 he taught with Rositsa Minovska-Devedzhieva in the newly founded Ruse Children's Opera, for which he wrote the libretto, after Maurice Carême, of Ivan Krastev's children's operetta Ani in the Kingdom of Flowers, first staged in 2016.