Kostadin Mechkov

Kostadin Mechkov has appeared at the Sofia Opera and Ballet as Ferrando in Il trovatore. He sang in the gala of Raina Kabaivanska's 2010 master class at Bulgaria Hall, in a programme of arias and ensembles by Mozart, Gounod, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Massenet and Bizet. Born in Burgas in 1987, he studied singing at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music with Ilka Popova until 2010 and worked in master classes with Anna Tomowa-Sintow in 2009, with Kabaivanska between 2010 and 2016 and with Vera Nemirova in 2011, winning scholarships to Siena and Modena in three consecutive years. He took first prize at the Svetoslav Obretenov national competition and third at the Elena Nikolai international competition. His stage debut came in 2010 at the State Opera Varna in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and in the same year he sang Colline in La bohème at the Sofia Opera and Ballet. He is a soloist of the State Opera Burgas and has sung in Varna, Stara Zagora and Plovdiv, at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and at the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo. Dulcamara, Don Pasquale, Leporello and Figaro belong to his repertory.