Ivaylo Yovchev

Taught first by Vasil Nedev, a long-serving soloist of the State Opera in his native Stara Zagora, and later privately by Resa Koleva, Ivaylo Yovchev has made a career across opera and operetta. His roles include Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Ismaele in Nabucco, Cassio in Otello, Count Almaviva, Camille in Die lustige Witwe and Alfred in Die Fledermaus. From 2010 he toured Germany in Die himmlische Nacht der Tenore. His stage and concert appearances have also included Turandot, Tosca and the tenor gala Die Nacht der 5 Tenöre. He entered the Stara Zagora company in 1997 as a chorus singer and was made a soloist in 2011, and he took part in Elisabeth Linhart's classes in French chamber music. Tamino and Pong are among his other parts, and in 2020 the house announced his first Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto.