Tenor
Biography
Since his 1992 debut as Rodolfo at the State Opera Burgas, Kostadin Andreev has sung more than thirty tenor roles, joining the Sofia Opera the year after that debut and remaining with the company. He studied at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music with Resa Koleva. His repertoire includes Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Massenet, Gounod, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky, Vladigerov, and the Wagner that Sofia's Ring cycle demanded of him. He has appeared with Ghena Dimitrova, Raina Kabaivanska and Leo Nucci, and sung under Seiji Ozawa, Valery Gergiev and Marcello Viotti. In 2025 he received the Emil Chakarov Award.