Sonia Marinova

May 2002 found Sonia Marinova on tour in Britain with Puccini's Tosca, in performances at Woking, Stoke-on-Trent, Milton Keynes and Bromley. Born in Pleven on 17 February 1960, she studied singing at the Sofia Conservatory and was invited as a soloist of the Sofia Opera, where her roles included Violetta in La traviata, Leonora in La forza del destino, Desdemona in Otello, Aida, Abigaille in Nabucco and Leonora in Il trovatore, alongside the title role of Madama Butterfly and Asteria in Boito's Nerone. She has sung in opera productions in Bulgaria and abroad and given many chamber concerts, her concert repertoire taking in the Dvorak Requiem and the Brahms German Requiem.