Maria Pavlova

Maria Pavlova was born in Veliko Tarnovo and graduated in 2012 from the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia. From 2013 she sang in the Sofia Opera and Ballet's Opera for Children programme - Gretel in Hansel und Gretel, The Long Christmas Dinner, Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges - and in three musicals by Alexander Vladigerov. Tebaldo in Don Carlos followed in 2014 and the title role of Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors in 2016; on the stage of the Konstantin Kisimov theatre in Veliko Tarnovo she took the operetta line, with Arsena in Der Zigeunerbaron, Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe, Stasi in Die Csardasfurstin and Liza in Grafin Mariza. In 2017 she became a staff soloist of the State Opera Varna, where Lucia, Gilda, Rosina, Clorinda and Musetta were among her roles, and the same year she made her debut as Adina at the Teatro Isabel la Catolica in Granada with the company from Chisinau; Oscar in Un ballo in maschera at the Sofia Opera and Ballet followed in 2019. She has worked in masterclasses with Ana Tomowa-Sintow, Emil Ivanov, Larisa Gergieva, Fiorenza Cossotto and Stefka Evstatieva. She joined the Sofia Opera and Ballet as a soloist in September 2024.