Mariana Paunova

Mariana Paunova (born June 13, 1951 in Kapinowo , † July 27, 2002 in New York City ) was a Canadian singer and pianist of Bulgarian origin.

Career

Paunova attended the State Music School in Sofia from 1962 to 1967. In the summer of 1967 she attended piano courses with Jan Ekier in Poland, after which she studied piano with Guido Agosti and Vincenzo Vitale in Rome until 1970 . In 1970 she won second prize at the Francesco Paolo Neglia International Piano Competition and then went to McGill University in Canada as a piano accompanist .

In 1971 she studied singing with Dina Maria Narici , and the following year she took part in the Sarah Fischer Concerts . She won the silver medal at the 1972 International Singing Competition in Toulouse, and in 1973 she won the Canadian Music Competition and the CBC Talent Festival . In the summer of 1973 she studied song singing with John Newmark , from 1973 to 1976 she studied opera singing with Edith and Luciano Della Pergola at the McGill University Opera Studio . She has appeared with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Elgar Choir, as well as on radio and television programs for the CBC . In 1975 she received Canadian citizenship.

In 1978 Paunova made her Carnegie Hall debut as Isaura in a concert performance of Rossini's opera Tancredi , and in 1979 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Olga in Eugene Onegin . She then appeared mainly in the USA, but also in Europe, Mexico and Canada, as Azucena in Il Trovatore at the Opera de Montréal (1982) and as La Comandante in Riccardo Zandonai's I cavalieri di Ekebù in the Alice Tully Hall (2000 ). In 1983 she recorded Paul Dukas ' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue with the Nouvel orchester philharmonique under the direction of Armin Jordan . Until 2002 she taught at the Manhattan School of Music .

Web links

• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Mariana Paunova