Raina Kabaivanska

Renowned on her behalf interpretations from the roles of Tosca, Manon, Francesca da Rimini, and Madame Butterfly, this internationally well-known soprano has gained the nickname “the Heroine of Melodrama.” Kabaivanska achieved her advanced vocal and piano research on the Bulgarian Condition Conservatory in Sofia. In 1958, she transferred to Italy and additional created her technique with Zita Fumagalli. She produced her debut on the Sofia Country wide Opera in 1957 in the function of Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. But Kabaivanska’s most significant debut is at the function of Agnese in Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda at Milan’s La Scala in 1961. At her Covent Backyard debut in 1962, she sang Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, as well as for New York’s Metropolitan she sang Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Her 1975 Paris debut was as Leonore in Verdi’s Il trovatore, and on her behalf Salzburg debut, she interpreted the function of Mrs. Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff. Kabaivanska continues to be awarded numerous accolades throughout her profession, like the Premio Bellini (1965) on her behalf interpretation of Beatrice di Tenda, the Viotti d’oro (1970), the Premio Puccini (1978), the Premio Illica (1979), Premio Monteverdi (1980), as well as the Premio Lorenzo il Magnifico in the Medici Academy for the Arts in Florence (1990). In 1974, Bulgarian Tv devoted a film to her entitled THE TIMES OF YEAR of Raina Kabaivanska.