The soprano Tanya Ivanova:

“I am happy that I will sing the role of Floria Tosca in Plamen Kartaloff’s staging, which evoked the ovations of the Japanese audience in 2012”

The music critique wrote about the soprano Tanya Ivanova that she is at first place an exceptionally talented drama actress, with wonderful voice, who manages to embody herself with conquering depth and grabs the attention of opera connoisseurs.

Tanya Ivanova asserts that since a child she wanted to become a singer. During the years she incessantly was striving towards big lyrical-dramatic roles. “In her – write the critics, there is a desire for self-perfection, exceptional love for the role and the audience, and this makes her a sought after singer”.

Tanya graduated from the “Lyubomir Pipkov” Music School and later from the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia. 

Her debut was on the stage of the Stara Zagora National Opera in the role of Hélène from the operetta “La belle Hélène” by Offenbach under the direction of Prof. Hacho Boyadzhiev. 

Several years ago she changed her repertoire from a mezzo-soprano to soprano and in 2012 she performed the role of Mimi from “La bohème” on the stage of the Burgas Opera. 

In 2013 she took part in the opera “Attila” in the frames of the Opera Festival in Plovdiv in the role of Odabella.

She recorded arias by Verdi, Puccini and Dvořák at the Bulgarian National Radio with conductor Maestro Ivan Angelov. 

In season 2013/14 she performed roles like: Cio-Cio-san from “Madama Butterfly” and Tosca by Puccini, Nedda from “Pagliacci” by Leoncavallo and Aida by Verdi on the stages of the opera houses in Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Varna and Burgas. 

In season 2014/15 she was soloist of the Plovdiv Opera, where she acted in the roles of Lady Macbeth from “Macbeth” by Verdi, Elisabeth from “Don Carlo” by Verdi, Mimi from “La bohème” by Puccini and others.

In February 2015 she debuted with great success on the stage of the Sofia Opera in the role of Tosca from Puccini’s opera of the same name.

On 9 December 2017 Tanya Ivanova will perform the role of Tosca. In the spectacle her partners will be: Martin Iliev in the role of Mario Cavaradossi, Nikola Mijailović – Baron Scarpia, Angel Hristov – Angelotti, Anton Radev – Sacristan, Nikolay Pavlov – Spoletta,
Aleksandar Georgiev – Sciarrone and Dimitar Stanchev – Jailer.

Conductor will be Grigor Palikarov.