Kiril Manolov

Manolov has sung the central Italian baritone roles: Nabucco, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, Falstaff, Amonasro, Don Carlo di Vargas, Figaro and Scarpia. Sofia-born and trained at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music, he won prizes at competitions in Sofia, Vienna, Warsaw, Barcelona and Brescia and has had engagements in Berlin, Rome, Parma, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Seville, Lisbon, Chicago and Tokyo. He has sung for Riccardo Muti, Carlo Rizzi and Daniel Oren, and in productions by David McVicar and Damiano Michieletto. At the Sofia Opera, he appears in Falstaff, La traviata and Madama Butterfly. His Bulgarian seasons have run alongside Nayden Todorov's between 2003 and 2023, from Nabucco in Burgas to the same opera at the Ancient Theatre in Plovdiv. At the Academy of Music he graduated in the class of Ilka Popova, learned much besides from Pavel Gerdjikov, and later worked in Milan with Adriana Stamenova; he sang Don Giovanni while he was still a student. Falstaff has taken him as a guest to Wiesbaden, Hamburg, Hannover, Budapest, Ravenna and Lucca, and he sang it for Riccardo Muti at Oviedo in 2015 and at the Savonlinna festival. Other engagements have included Puccini's triptych at the Rome Opera, Dulcamara in Seville, Nabucco at the Caracalla summer festival and Amonasro in Montreal.