Momchil Milanov

The bass Momchil Milanov was born in Ruse in 1984 and finished the Veselin Stoyanov school of arts there in 2004, studying classical singing with Georgi Deliganev before going on to the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia. A scholarship of the Gallery of Bulgarian Talents came in 2005 and a CEE Musiktheater scholarship under the patronage of the Vienna Staatsoper in 2006, the year he represented Bulgaria at the International Delphic Games. First prizes at the Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin competition in 2005 and at Svetoslav Obretenov, a second and a special Bulgarian National Radio prize at the Franz Schubert international competition in 2007, and the grand prize of the Marin Goleminov competition in 2008 mark the early years. He joined the soloists of the opera in Ruse in 2006, and his roles there include Don Basilio, Colas, Figaro and Bartolo, Raimondo, Capellio, Zuniga, Timur, Colline, Geronte de Ravoir, Ramfis, Samuel and Banquo, alongside Mozart's Requiem. His Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro at the Rousse house was his first work with the director Gian Gianotti.