Maria Pavlova was born in 1989 in Veliko Tarnovo. In 2012 she graduated in opera singing at the National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov”, Sofia, in the class of Prof. Velizara Karayankova, and in 2014 she specialized in chamber singing with Prof. Boryana Lambreva.
In 2016 she was a soloist of the “Konstantin Kisimov” Music and Drama Theatre in Veliko Tarnovo.
From 2017 to 2024 she was a soloist of the Varna State Opera, where she made her debuts in leading roles in the genres of opera, musical and operetta.
Since September 2024 she has been a soloist of the Sofia Opera and Ballet.
She has participated in numerous concerts in Bulgaria and abroad. In 2022 she won a Special Prize at the “Concorso internazionale – European Opera” competition, Turin.
The soprano has participated in master classes with Irene Tortora, Krasimira Stoyanova, Emil Ivanov, Larisa Gergieva, Ana Tomowa-Sintow, Fiorenza Cosotto.
Repertoire:
Rosina from “The Barber of Seville” and Clorinda in “Cinderella” by Gioacchino Rossini.
Adina from “The Elixir of Love” and Norina from “Don Pasquale” by Gaetano Donizetti.
Musetta in “La bohème” by Giacomo Puccini
Pamina, First Lady, Papagena from “The Magic Flute” and Susanna from “The Marriage of Figaro”, Requiem by W.A. Mozart.
Antonia in “The Tales of Hoffmann”, Jacques Offenbach
Fraschita in “Carmen”, Georges Bizet
The Forest bird in “Siegfried”, Richard Wagner
Nanetta in “Falstaff” and Oscar in “Un ballo in maschera” by Giuseppe Verdi.
Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet”, Charles Gounod
Belinda in “Dido and Aeneas”, Henry Purcell
Amal in “Amal and the Night Visitors”, Giancarlo Menotti
Maria in “West Side Story”, Leonard Bernstein
Requiem by Gabriel Fauré and Andrew Lloyd Webber
