Valyu Totev

Diman Panchev, Shmilena Sultanova, Elena Baramova and Orlin Goranov were among the names in the mixed company around Valyu Totev on the State Opera Rousse's evenings in Burgas, where he appeared as a soloist; he has been attached to the house from 2011. Valyu Petkov Totev was born on 7 October 1946 in the village of Dyulevo in the Burgas district. He finished the mechanical technical school in Burgas and took work with Ocean Fishing – Burgas, singing in choirs and in amateur opera productions until he settled at the Burgas State Opera, first in the chorus and then as a soloist in tenor parts. Abdallo in Nabucco, Spoletta in Tosca, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte, Bardolfo in Falstaff, Dancaïre in Carmen, Prince Yamadori and Goro in Madama Butterfly, Flavio in Norma and Gastone in La traviata are among his roles, and he has been a guest of the Rousse, Varna and Plovdiv houses and has toured in Europe and America.