Rumiana Petrova

Between 2001 and 2003 Rumiana Petrova sang with the Sofia Opera in Gounod's Faust and Verdi's La traviata, and travelled with the company to Solothurn for a Faust given out of doors. Petrova was born in Stara Zagora and studied at the music school and then the Music Academy in Sofia, taking piano alongside opera singing. Her first stage work was at the Stefan Makedonski Musical Theatre, which she joined in 1976; from 1980 she belonged to the company of the Sofia Opera and Ballet. The mezzo-soprano carried central roles in Rigoletto, Il trovatore, Otello, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Faust, La clemenza di Tito, Carmen and Gianni Schicchi, among them Maddalena, Emilia, Berta, Marthe and Mercedes.