Vesselina Kasarova

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Vesselina Kasarova
Vesselina Kasarova! SING - DAY OF SONG (2010)

Vesselina Kasarova ( Bulgarian Веселина Кацарова , Wesselina Kazarowa , transliteration: Veselina Kacarova ; born July 18, 1965 in Stara Sagora ) is a singer ( mezzo-soprano ) of Bulgarian origin. She has been a Swiss citizen since 1997 and lives in Zollikon near Zurich .

life and work

At the age of 4 she received her first piano lessons at the Pionerski Dom music school and at the age of 14 attended the music-oriented high school Christina Morfowa. In 1984 she took her first singing lessons and at the same time completed her piano studies with a diploma, which was followed by studies at the musical academy in Sofia and singing lessons with Ressa Kolewa. In addition, she made her first appearances at the National Opera of Sofia as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioacchino Rossini , which would later become her star role. In 1989 she completed her vocal studies and was appointed to the Zurich Opera House . There she started her career with small to medium-sized roles such as Alisa ( Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti ) and Annio ( La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ), although she sang alongside great colleagues such as Edita Gruberová or Ann Murray . The New Voices singing competition in Gütersloh in 1989 also brought her great success, and in 1991 she became the interpreter of Annio at the Salzburg Festival and Rosina at the Vienna State Opera .

The greatest success of her career, however, was in 1992 when she represented Marilyn Horne as Tancredi in the concert performance of the opera of the same name by Gioacchino Rossini at the Salzburg Festival. Now the opera world became aware of the young Bulgarian and engaged her for various roles at home and abroad ( Rosina in London, Cherubino in Munich, Zerlina in Salzburg, Idamante in Florence, Charlotte in Zurich, Romeo from I Capuleti ei Montecchi in Paris) . She was also able to gain a foothold in the USA, where she impressed as Romeo in New York and Idamante in Chicago. One of her star roles is the Sesto from La clemenza di Tito , which she sang for the first time in 1997 at the Salzburg Festival (she was seen and heard in the same opera as Annio in 1992 ) and now also at the Zurich Opera House, the Bavarian State Opera , the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and recently in the Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich. A number of recordings by the Bulgarian have already been released on the classic label RCA / BMG, including complete opera recordings as well as aria and duet records. She works closely with the tenor Juan Diego Flórez , with whom she has had some of her greatest successes (Rossini's La Cenerentola in Pesaro and London ). In the summer of 2008 she made her role debut as Carmen at the Zurich Opera House , a role that she performed at the Cologne Opera House in September 2009 . As other role debuts she works on Didon ( Les Troyens ) , Eboli ( Don Carlos ) and Venus ( Tannhäuser ) . On June 5th, 2010 she performed at the final concert of ! SING - DAY OF SONG in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen as part of the project RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture . In 2011 she took part as a solo singer at the 19th Festive Opera Gala of the German AIDS Foundation . At the turn of the year 2013/2014 she made several guest appearances at the Cologne Opera as Prinz Orlofsky ( Die Fledermaus ) . Also at the Cologne Opera in March 2014 a series of appearances as Dalila in Samson and Dalila followed.

Awards

literature

  • Vesselina Kasarova: "I sing with body and soul". About the art of being a singer. Conversations with Marianne Zelger-Vogt. Henschel, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-89487-901-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zollikon relies on a Bulgarian opera star on August 1st. In: Tages-Anzeiger . July 23, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Kasarova, Vesselina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кацарова, Веселина; Kazarowa, Wesselina; Kacarova, Veselina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian-Swiss mezzo-soprano
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Stara Sagora