Lachezar Lazarov

Lachezar Lazarov's singing career has been made in Bulgaria, with the country's repertory opera companies. Born in Popovo, he took up singing in 1996 with Asen Selimski at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music and won the Grand Prix of the Vladigerov song competition and first prize at the Maria Kraja International Competition in Tirana. While still a student he was engaged at the National Opera in Sofia, where he remained seven years; guest engagements took him to the opera houses of Palma de Mallorca, Munich, Liege, Valletta and Porto and to the Liceu in Barcelona. He joined the National Music Theatre in Sofia as a soloist in 2010. In 1996 he also graduated in theology from Sofia University. His opera debut came in La Gioconda in 1999, in a cast with Gena Dimitrova and Nikola Gyuzelev.