Yanitsa Nesheva

oprano

She graduated from the State Music Academy “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” – Sofia in major subject Opera Singing in the class of Prof. Mila Dyulgerova. She won the Special Prize at the Competition “G. Zlatev Cherkin” and laureate of the National Competition for Instrumentalists and Singers “Svetoslav Obretenov”, Provadiya.

In 2000, she debuted in the role of Gilda in the opera “Rigoletto” by Giuseppe Verdi on the stage of the Stara Zagora State Opera, whose soloist she continues to be. In 2004 and 2005, she attended the masterclasses in Opera Singing by Raina Kabaivanska of the New Bulgarian University. In 2006, she attended the masterclass in Opera Singing and Interpretation by Anna-Tomowa Sintow, the same year she attended the masterclass of Prof. Mati Pinkas and the masterclass in Opera Singing and Interpretation of Mozart by Elizabeth Linhart.

She has guest-performed in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the USA.

Opera repertoire:
Adina (“L’elisir d’amore”)
A Voice from Heaven (“Don Carlos”)
Belinda (“Dido and Aeneas”)
Giulia (“The Silk Ladder”)
Priestess (“Aida”)
Michaela (“Carmen”)
Musetta (“La boheme”)
Oscar (“Un ballo in maschera”)
Rosina (“The Barber of Seville”)
Susanna (“Le nozze di Figaro”)
Frasquita (“Carmen”)
Stasi (“Die Csardasfurstin”)

Cantata-oratorio repertoire:
“Messiah” (Handel)
“Requiem” (W. A. Mozart)