Shmilena Sultanova

From 2004 Shmilena Sultanova sang for the State Opera Rousse, appearing in Plovdiv and in Burgas in casts that included Diman Panchev, Stanislava Ivanova, Plamen Beykov and Valyu Totev. In Burgas in 2011 she shared a bill with the tenor Kaludi Kaludov. She studied opera singing at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv with Kalina Zhekova, and from 1998 was a soloist of the Konstantin Kisimov Music and Drama Theatre in Veliko Tarnovo before joining the State Opera Burgas as a soloist in 2004, appearing regularly as a guest with the state operas of Stara Zagora and Varna. Her roles include Fenena in Nabucco, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, the title role in Tosca, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Sylva in Die Csardasfuerstin, Hanna Glawari in Die lustige Witwe, Helen in La belle Helene, Mariza in Graefin Mariza and Angele in Der Graf von Luxemburg.