Silvia Angelova

Silvia Angelova's Madama Butterfly at the State Opera Varna, on 25 February 2025, placed her in a small cast with Yoana Zhelezcheva, Georgi Sultanov and Svilen Nikolov. Born in Dobrich, she graduated from the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia and made her debut as Maddalena in Rigoletto at the State Opera Stara Zagora. She took two masterclasses with Darina Takova, studied at the Boris Christoff Academy in Rome with Mirella Parutto and Antonio Boyer and in the Opera Studio of the Santa Cecilia Academy with Renata Scotto, Anna Vandi and Cesare Scarton, and sang Pergolesi's Stabat Mater in the Pantheon in Rome in 2009. In 2011 she made two debuts, as Isolier in Le comte Ory in Varna and as Zephyre in Mozart's Apollo et Hyacinthus in Sofia; in 2012 a Rossini Foundation scholarship took her to Pesaro, where Alberto Zedda cast her as the Marchesa Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims. She has belonged to the soloists of the State Opera Varna since 2012, singing Suzuki, Cherubino, Rosina, Fenena, Ulrica and Mercedes.