Lyudmila Mihaylova

From 2004 to 2014 Lyudmila Mihaylova sang with the State Opera Burgas, in a repertoire running from Verdi's Nabucco to Viennese operetta — Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin and Johann Strauss's Der Zigeunerbaron — with Magdalena Georgieva, Milen Dinolov, Elena Baramova and Shmilena Sultanova among her colleagues on stage. She studied singing, cello and composition in Burgas - voice with Nayden Borodzhiev, cello with Jasmina Cherneva, composition with Rositsa Toncheva - then moved in 1990 to the Music Academy in Sofia, where she worked with Sili Brzeckova, Zdravko Yordanov and Alexander Raichev and finished in 1995; masterclasses with Fedora Barbieri and Alexandrina Milcheva followed. Her graduation performance was Gilda in Rigoletto at the Burgas house, and her parts there have included the Queen of the Night, Lucia, Violetta, Rosina, Micaela and Tatyana. She has sung on tour in Spain, France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Bulgarian National Radio gave her its award for active creative activity for 2016. She joined the Burgas company in 1995.