Sonya Yoncheva

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Sonya Yoncheva ( Bulgarian Соня Йончева , Sonja Jontschewa ; born December 25, 1981 in Plovdiv ) is a Bulgarian opera singer ( soprano ).

life and career

Yoncheva studied piano and singing in Plovdiv and at the Geneva Conservatory . She has won numerous prizes and competitions, including the 2010 Operalia Opera Competition.

Yoncheva sang in many opera productions, including at the Metropolitan Opera , La Scala , Paris Opera , Berlin State Opera , Bavarian State Opera , German Opera Berlin , the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Teatro Real Madrid , the Vienna State Opera , the Zurich Opera House , the Tonhalle Zurich and the Alte Oper Frankfurt . In November 2013 Yoncheva was engaged as Gilda in the opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi at the Metropolitan Opera in New York , alongside Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Rigoletto. In 2014 Yoncheva appeared again at the New York Met, in November as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème and in December as Violetta in La traviata . In 2015 she sang Desdemona in Verdi's Otello alongside Aleksandrs Antonenko , also at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

In 2015 she won an ECHO Klassik in the category Young Artist of the Year (vocals). She became known to a wide audience in Germany through her participation in the Advent concert from Dresden , which was broadcast on ZDF on December 4, 2016.

In September 2016 she made her role debut as Norma at the Royal Opera House in London, where she appeared as Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann in October of the same year . In June 2017 she made her debut at La Scala in Milan , where she appeared as Mimì in La Bohème .

In the 2017/18 season, she made her role debut as Tosca in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera , where Yoncheva appeared as the protagonist of three international cinema broadcasts ( Met Live in HD ) in one season (Tosca, Mimi in La Bohème and Luisa Miller ). Yoncheva's other role debuts in the 2017/18 season included Verdi's Élisabeth de Valois in Verdi's Don Carlos at the Paris Opera , the title role of Luisa Miller at the Metropolitan Opera and Imogene in Vincenzo Bellini's Il pirata at La Scala in Milan. At the Salzburg Festival she was heard in the title role of L'incoronazione di Poppea .

Sonya Yoncheva began the 2018/19 season with her fifth role debut within a year at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in a new production of Médée (Cherubini) conducted by Daniel Barenboim , for which she was celebrated by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung for her "outstanding presence" . She returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Desdemona in Otello (Verdi) and in the title role of Iolanta , and at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden she performed a new production of Otello (Verdi) with the Berliner Philharmoniker . She also performed two concert performances of Otello at the Berlin Philharmonic . She played the title role of Tosca at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden . In April 2019 it was announced that Yoncheva would receive the Readers Award from the International Opera Awards.

In spring 2019, Sonya Yoncheva announced that she was expecting her second child in autumn. That is why the singer pauses from mid-July to early November 2019 before returning to the stage in Puccini Galas in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie , the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and the Philharmonic in Sofia and in November and December the Imogene in Il pirata at the Teatro Real in Madrid interpreted. In the 2019/20 season she will also make her role debuts as Fedora in a new production at the Teatro alla Scala and as Manon Lescaut at the Metropolitan Opera , returns as Tosca to the Vienna State Opera and Bavarian State Opera , as Médée (Cherubini) to the State Opera Berlin and Mimì returned to the Royal Opera Covent Garden .

Sonya Yoncheva is recording exclusively for Sony Music , which has three solo albums so far: Paris, mon amour (debut album), Handel and The Verdi album .

Yoncheva is married to Domingo Hindoyan , a conductor from Venezuela who was hired by the Berlin State Opera in 2013 as 1st assistant to general music director Daniel Barenboim . They live with their son and daughter in the Swiss canton of Vaud . In 2016 they bought an apartment in Berlin-Mitte .

Discography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony Tommasini: Musical Chairs at the Met . In: The New York Times . December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ Performance schedule in Operabase
    Michael Cooper: A Last-Minute Sensation The New York Times , November 27, 2014
  3. ↑ echoklassik.de Young Artist of the Year (vocals) ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 19, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echoklassik.de
  4. ↑ Program description ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on zdf.de, accessed on December 6, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  5. ↑ Interview with Sonya Yoncheva / La Stampa . Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  6. ↑ Sonya Yoncheva Met Tosca . In: Opera News . Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  7. ↑ Eleonore Büning: Shadows grow, heroes shrink | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 9, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed December 23, 2018]).
  8. ↑ International Opera Awards 2019 - The Winners! Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  9. ^ Sonya Yoncheva Cancels Forthcoming Stage Performances Due to Second Pregnancy. March 11, 2019, Retrieved August 3, 2019 (American English).
  10. ↑ Tim Weiler: Sonya Yoncheva / Calendar. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Sony Music website . Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  12. ↑ Domingo Hindoyan ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Berlin State Opera @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatsoper-berlin.de
  13. ↑ Sonya Yoncheva: Maria? Anna? Sonya! The time of July 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Yoncheva, Sonya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joncheva, Sonja; Йончева, Соня (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Plovdiv