Radostina Nikolaeva
was born on June 10, 1974 in Rousse, Bulgaria.
She started singing from an early age and in
1991 she enrolled the Rousse’s
Musical School “V.Stoyanov”. In 1995 she was
admitted at the National Music
Academy –
“Pancho
Vladiguerov” – Sofia, in the class of Prof. R.Brumbarova.
From
there she graduated in 2001 as Master of Arts in Opera Singing.
In 2006
she joined the Master Class of the famous soprano
Anna
Tomova-Sintoff.
Her
career on stage started as early as 1998 when she was invited to
participate
in
Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni”, singing Donna Elvira, at The State Opera
of Rousse.
In 2003 after winning a
contest at the National Opera of Sofia, she gets the chance to work on
the stage of the most
prestigious theatre in Bulgaria. There she makes
most of her debuts and builds up the
characters of her
roles. She is greatly welcomed and loved by the
audience. During the six seasons of work with the Opera house,
Radostina managed to
enrich her repertoire and had the opportunity to perform with famous
Bulgarian and foreign singers and conductors, thus the National Opera of
Sofia becomes an essential part of her artistic life.
In the beginning of 2004 she makes
remarkable debuts in the roles of Liu (Puccini "Turandot"), Leonora
(Verdi "Il Trovatore")
and Amelia (Verdi "Un Ballo in Maschera).
After her work with the
famous Belgian conductor - Khun Kessels in Verdi's opera"Il Trovatore",
she has been
invited open the Eight
Easter Festival in Sofia, singing the soprano part in Verdi's Requiem.
During the festival, the
young singer made her debut in a concert version of Donizetti's Anna
Bolena (premiere for the Bulgarian stage). She also performed Donna Anna
from Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni", Micaela from Bizet's "Carmen", and
La Contessa from Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro".
In
the season of 2004/2005 Radostina added to her
repertoire the soprano roles of Verdi's
"Otello"-Desdemona, Puccini's "La Boheme"- Mimi,
Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci"- Nedda, Purcell's "Dido and
Aeneas"- Dido, Haydn's
"The Creation" - Gabriel and Eva, Verdi's "La Traviata"
- Violetta, and Verdi's "Aida"- Aida.
Afterwards she
sang in all other major opera theatres in Bulgaria. She has also
performed in big concert halls such as
the
"National
Palace of Culture"
and
the
“Bulgaria”
concert
hall.
She took part in operas and festivals around Germany, Switzerland,
Holland, Japan, Russia and others.
In 2006/
2007 the soprano is a guest singer in Holland with
Verdi's "Il Trovatore"-Leonora, Mozart's "Don Giovanni"-
Donna Anna/Donna Elvira, and in Bucharest National Opera
with Verdi's "La Traviata" - Violetta. Later in 2008 she
took part in the premiere of Verdi's opera "La Traviata"
- Violetta in Sarajevo National Opera and made a debut
in Puccini's opera"Suor Angelica", singing Suor Angelica
in Sofia. In the middle of the same year Radostina
Nikolaeva had great success in the international opera
contest "Premio Spiros Argiris 9 Concorso
Internazionale per Giovani Cantanti Lirici" (Gemellato
con il Concorso Elena Obraztsova di San Pietroburgo) by
winning "Primo premio" and
"Premio Vota la Voce".
Since 2003 she is a
prominent soloist at the National Theatre for
Opera and Ballet, in Sofia.
Her
repertoire includes numerous
leading soprano roles,
some of
which
she
has performed together with
the
National Opera of Sofia.
In
2009 Radostina Nikolaeva will make her debut in "Aleko" by Rachmaninoff,
singing the role of Zemfira and
in
"Hoffman Tale's" by Offenbach, performing the role of Antonia.
She is also invited to participate in the
Days
of the Bulgarian Culture in Moscow, Russia - February 2009.
She
has
been awarded in national and international competitions:
2008 -
"Premio Spiros Argiris
9 Concorso Internazionale per Giovani Cantanti Lirici" I-st prize and
Audience Award
2005 - IV International
Competition "Ottavio Ziino",Rome, Italy-III-rd
Prize
2004
- XIII International
Competition for Young Opera Singers "Boris Christoff", Sofia-
III-rd Prize
2001
- Third National
Competition, "Hr.Brambarov" II-nd Prize
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