Valeri Georgiev

Fifteen years of Bulgarian summers and one Dutch autumn. The tenor Valeri Georgiev first appears in this archive in the Carmina Burana given in Varna in August 2011, then on the tour that carried Orff's two cantatas through Eindhoven, Almere, Breda, Zwolle, Gouda and Heerlen that October. He returned for Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in Rousse in 2013, Carmina Burana again in Pleven in 2019, Macbeth in Varna in 2023, the Christmas operetta concerts of that December, Tosca with Sonya Yoncheva in 2025 and the Varna evening with Plácido Domingo in April 2026. Born in Saransk, he trained first as a horn player, at the Georgi Atanasov military music school and then at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music, where he studied the horn with Stefan Kanchev and singing with Ivanka Ninova, and from 1998 to 2009 he played in the orchestra of the Stefan Makedonski National Music Theatre. His solo career began in 2010 with the Duke in Rigoletto at Craiova, and since 2012 he has been a soloist of the state operas in Varna and Burgas; a prize at the Viva Verdi competition in Sofia followed in 2014.