Silvana Pravcheva

In Sofia on 12 June 2006, Silvana Pravcheva sang in the State Opera Rousse's La traviata, a staging by Francesco Privitera whose cast included Darina Takova, Emil Ugrinov, Ludmila Hadjieva and Marcho Apostolov. She trained in singing at the secondary music school in Varna and graduated from the National Academy of Music in Sofia, completing the masterclass of Blagovesta Karnobatlova-Dobreva, and studied further with Sabin Markov and Alexandrina Milcheva and at the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid with Ana Higueras. She took a silver medal at the Tenth National Competition for Singers and Instrumentalists and a prize at the Luis Coleman competition in Spain. A member of the Sofia Opera and Ballet since 1989, she has sung Rita, Adina and Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, Elettra in Idomeneo, Zerlina, Susanna, Papagena and the First Lady in Die Zauberfloete, Leonora in Il trovatore, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera and in Simon Boccanegra, Violetta Valery, Desdemona, Liu and Musetta.