Stoyanka Ivanova

Stoyanka Ivanova belongs to the touring side of Bulgarian opera. Through 2004 and 2005 she crossed North America with Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Carmen and Aida, singing in East Lansing, Whitewater, Elmira, Keene, Providence, Concord, Red Bank, Portsmouth, Paducah and Sioux Falls. Born in Sofia, she graduated with honours from the Bulgarian State Academy of Music with a master's degree in classical singing at twenty-six, and made her stage debut in 2000 as Maddalena in Rigoletto. Her European work has included Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, the Verdi and Mozart requiems, the title role in Offenbach's La belle Helene and Carmen, and she has appeared as a guest in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Spain.