Vesela Yaneva

Vesela Yaneva joined the Sofia National Opera in 2020 and has sung the company's performances in Sofia and in Plovdiv, in casts alongside Galina Ovchinnikova, Yosif Slavov, Aleksandrina Mihaylova and Vincenzo Spinelli. Yaneva was born in Varna on 11 February 1994, finished the Dobri Hristov school of the arts there in classical singing, and toured Bulgaria and Europe as a soloist of the Varna children's and youth opera under Gancho Ganchev. She took her bachelor's and master's degrees at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia, in the opera class of Ivanka Ninova and the acting class of Plamen Kartaloff, then studied with Anna Vandi at the Boris Christoff Academy of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Rome. She made her debut in 2018 as the Princess in Suor Angelica at the Lirica in piazza festival in Italy. A scholar of the Raina Kabaivanska and Stoyan Kambarev foundations, she entered the Sofia company as Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera, opposite Maria Guleghina and Ramon Vargas.