Petya Ivanova

Coloratura roles have shaped Petya Ivanova's work at the National Opera in Sofia, which she joined after graduating from the State Academy of Music there in 1999 and taking third prize at the Boris Christoff International Competition for Young Opera Singers. Born in 1974, she has sung Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Gilda in Rigoletto and Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and has appeared in Plovdiv as well as Sofia. She studied at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music with Vesta Karnobatlova and made her stage debut at the Rousse opera as Oscar in Un ballo in maschera. A special prize at the Prof. Tsvetana Dyakovich international competition for art song and second prize at the Hristo Brambarov competition for young opera singers stand early in her record, and she has been a guest in Germany, Austria and Slovenia.