Concert of Krassimira Stoyanova
Opening of the XI Festival "Days of Music in Balabanov House"

June 16, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Small Early Christian Basilica, 31A Knyaginya Maria Luiza Blvd.
Tickets at all Eventim box offices - a ticket center in front of the Municipality of Plovdiv, at the tourist information center on the Roman Stadium Square, at the ticket office of the Ancient Theater, at the Boris Hristov City House of Culture, etc., as well as online at https://www.eventim.bg

The Voice of Straduvarius
KRASIMIRA STOYANOVA
Chamberlain of the Vienna State Opera
On the piano - BORYANA LAMBREVA

KRASIMIRA STOYANOVA graduated from the Veselin Stoyanov National School of Music in Ruse with a degree in violin. He graduated from AMTII - Plovdiv with specialties: violin, singing and music pedagogy, and worked for several years as a violinist in the Plovdiv Philharmonic, JSC at the NMA "Prof. P. Vladigerov ”and the New Symphony Orchestra. Her professional debut as an opera singer was in the role of Gilda from "Rigoletto" / Verdi / in 1995 at the Sofia Opera, and after her impressive performance on the stage of the Vienna "Staatsoper" in 1998 she was appointed full-time soloist of the theater / 1999 - 2003 / , where from 2003 until today he is a regular guest soloist. Krassimira Stoyanova participates in the new productions of the Vienna "Staatsoper" - "Falstaff" / Alice /, "Othello" / Desdemona /, "Don Carlos" / Elizabeth /, "Ariadne from Naxos" / Ariadne /, "Mermaid", as well as in the repertoire performances of "La Traviata", "Bohemia", "Clowns", "Turandot", "Hoffman's Stories", "The Wedding of Figaro", "Don Juan", "Simone Bocanegra", "The Jew" and others. In 2009, the famous singer was awarded the honorary title of "Kamerzengerin" at the Staatsoper. Her glamorous international career has taken her to the most prestigious opera houses and concert halls in the world - Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall in New York, Covent Garden and Royal Albert Hall in London, Milan Scala, Deutsche Opera, Staatsoper and Concerthaus - Berlin, Concert House - Vienna and many others. She has recorded 4 CDs of opera arias in partnership with the Munich Radio Orchestra for the Orpheo Company, which has won prestigious awards, as well as the CD "Sogno d'Or" with all published songs by Puccini for "Gega New". He has released CDs of concerts with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Maris Jansons, Ricardo Muti and Georges Pretre; and a DVD with her participation in the operas "The Jew", "Othello", "Eugene Onegin", "The Knight of the Rose", "The Love of Danaya", Requiem - Verdi. Chamber music is a favorite genre of the singer. She has performed song recitals at Carnegie Hall - New York, Staatsoper and Musicfair - Vienna, Opera Bastia - Paris, the Opera in Frankfurt, the Bavarian Opera - Munich, the festivals "Piano Extravaganza" in Sofia, "Days of Music in Plovdiv" - Balabanov House "March Music Days" - Ruse and others.
Extremely prestigious commitments are included in its calendar for 2020, some of which, unfortunately, have been postponed due to the pandemic that has spread throughout the world. These are Requiem - Verdi in Musicfair, Vienna; Desdemona - "Othello" / Verdi / in the Vienna State Opera; Elizabeth - "Tannhauser" / Wagner / in Milan Scala; Amelia - "Ball with masks" / Verdi / in the Vienna Staatsoper and Teatro del Maggio Musical, Florence and others.
In recent years, Krassimira Stoyanova devotes time and energy to training and supporting young talents. Since 2017, she has deepened her collaboration with MF "Days of Music in Balabanov House" by initiating a series of concerts in which she presents on the podium of the festival young promising singers, selected and prepared by her.

BORYANA LAMBREVA is known for her active work as an accompanying pianist - mainly in the field of opera and chamber vocal performance. Over the years he has registered numerous participations in a number of academic, national and international competitions, as well as in chamber and vocal recitals of Bulgarian and foreign performers - primarily within established music festivals such as MF "Sofia Music Weeks", MF "March Music Days". MF "Varna Summer", Arts Festival "Apollonia", Festival of Arts "Boris Hristov", "Thracian Summer", "Skopje Summer" and others. She has performed with the mezzo-soprano Veselina Katsarova in the Week of Bulgaria in the European Parliament - Brussels, as well as with Raina Kabaivanska and her students in a concert in front of the Presidents of Italy and Bulgaria at the Capitoline Museum - Rome. In 2014 he participated in a series of concerts in Bulgaria, Italy and Macedonia, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Boris Hristov. Her repertoire in the field of chamber and vocal creativity is extremely rich, from baroque to contemporary music, with preferences for thematic concerts, covering the work of various composers, mainly in the genre of the song cycle.

In addition to these performances, Boryana Lambreva is a preferred pianist-accompanist in master classes held at home and abroad by leading singers, conductors and opera directors - Matti Pinkas, Pavel Gerdjikov, Caroline Dumas, Paul Weigold, Darina Takova, Vera Nemi , Anna Tomova-Sintova / 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015 /, Krassimira Stoyanova, and since 2001 she has been a regular pianist at the annual master classes of Raina Kabaivanska in Bulgaria.
 He makes a number of studio recordings for the BNR fund.
Professor of "chamber singing" at the National Music Academy "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov ”, where in 2013 he defended his doctoral dissertation, analyzing the place and the interpretive issues in the performing practice and the academic education of chamber vocal works by Bulgarian composers. Her book "Bulgarian Solo Song", published in 2018, is also on this topic.

The event is part of the XI International Festival "Days of Music in Balabanov House" - spring edition. The full program can be found at http://www.visitplovdiv.com/bg/node/8051

The festival is realized with the financial support of the Municipality of Plovdiv and is part of the Calendar of cultural events for 2020 of the municipality.