Ofelia Hristova

Ofelia Hristova, a Bulgarian singer, appeared in the gala concert that closed Raina Kabaivanska's master class at Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, a course held under the auspices of New Bulgarian University. Hristova finished the Panayot Pipkov music school in Pleven in 1978 and graduated in opera singing from the Pancho Vladigerov Music Academy in Sofia in 1985, in the class of Resa Koleva. She made her debut at the State Opera Stara Zagora in 1986 as Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino and has remained a staff soloist of that house; in 1988 she studied with the bass Boris Christoff in Rome. She sings both soprano and mezzo-soprano parts, among them Aida, Norma, Tosca and Abigaille.