Yosif Slavov

Performances dating from 2020 have taken Yosif Slavov, a soloist with the Sofia National Opera, to Sofia and to Plovdiv, with Galina Ovchinnikova, Aleksandrina Mihaylova, Vesela Yaneva and Vincenzo Spinelli among his colleagues on those evenings. He studied with Raina Kabaivanska in her masterclasses at New Bulgarian University in 2020 and 2021 and held a scholarship from her fund there; for Operalia he was prepared by Krassimira Stoyanova, and in October 2023, at the thirtieth edition of the competition in Cape Town, he sang as the Bulgarian entrant. State Opera Stara Zagora gave him Lucia di Lammermoor, La traviata, Faust and Madama Butterfly, then Eugene Onegin in November 2023 and Zurga in Les pecheurs de perles in March 2024. Germont in Bordeaux and Onegin in Hamburg followed, an Escamillo in Tallinn was announced, and from the 2024/2025 season he signed a year's contract with the young artists' studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper.