Vesna Ginovska

Since 2001 Vesna Ginovska has appeared as a soloist with the State Opera Plovdiv, in the company's home theatre and in Sofia, in casts that included Kamen Tchanev, Parashkev Andrekov, Stoyan Ivanov and Georgi Dinev; a Sofia concert in 2004 placed her on the same platform as Raina Kabaivanska. Ginovska was born in 1972 in Skopje and took her training at the Faculty of Music there and at the Belgrade Music Academy. She made her debut in 1996 as Micaëla in Carmen opposite the Russian tenor Sergey Dubrovin, and has since sung Aida, Tosca, La forza del destino, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Otello and La bohème, as well as the Macedonian operas Tsar Samuil and Lidija of Macedonia. She is a principal artist of the National Opera and Ballet in Skopje, gave a recital in New York in 2014, and has been named Honorary Cultural Ambassador of Macedonia by the Macedonian Chamber of Commerce.