Valeri Tsolov

Pleven and Yambol are the two cities in which Valeri Tsolov has appeared as a soloist with the Pleven Philharmonic since 2021, in programmes that also drew on Georgi Sultanov, Ventseslav Anastasov, Tanya Ivanova and Ivaylo Yovchev. Valeri Tsolov is a baritone, born in Sofia on 31 May 1955 and a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatory in 1978, where he studied with Tamara Gurinova. He was a soloist of the Pleven Opera from 1978 to 1994, singing some sixty-nine parts, among them Figaro in The Barber of Seville and Germont in La traviata, then worked in Thessaloniki at the Aristotle and Grand theatres until 2006. He received the Order 1300 Years of Bulgaria in 1981 and the town of Pleven's Ss Cyril and Methodius award in May 2025.