Nikolay Motsov

Chiefly with the Ruse company, Nikolay Motsov has worked across opera, sacred music and contemporary Bulgarian vocal-symphonic writing. He sang in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Bulgaria Hall in 2006 and in Don Giovanni in May 2008, took part in Charpentier's Te Deum in Ruse in 2007 and in performances of Nayden Andreev's Molenie in Yaroslavl and Moscow in 2009, and appeared in the festive concert at the Ruse opera house in December 2014. Plamen Beykov, Anita Dafinska, Maria Tsvetkova-Madzharova and Elena Marinova were among his colleagues in those casts. Born in Rousse in 1973, he made his debut there in Mozart's Requiem in 1998 and recorded the work for Bulgarian National Radio the following year under Metodi Matakiev, then took his master's degree with Ilka Popova in 2005 and stayed on as her assistant. A scholarship of the CEE Musiktheater foundation took him to the Vienna State Opera from 2004 to 2006 to study with Olivera Miljaković, and he has sung at the festivals in Solothurn, Palma de Mallorca and Europalia. His roles run from Don Ottavio and Tamino through Nemorino and Lensky to Alfredo and Turiddu.