Sonya Yoncheva

The soprano Sonya Yoncheva rocketed to prominence in the mid-2010s with some appearances at top homes. Her background is definitely unusual for the reason that it’s been closely connected with Baroque music; her profession, as it is rolling out, offers included that repertory, but in addition has encompassed traditional 19th hundred years works. Yoncheva was created in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second town, on Dec 25, 1981. She started intensive music research at age group six rather than looked back, learning piano and tone of voice at Bulgaria’s Country wide College for Music and Dance. Another uncommon feature of her profession was a stint like a tv music show sponsor as an adolescent. Definately not distracting her from her goals, the knowledge, Yoncheva told THE BRAND NEW York Instances, was useful: “It had been something new if you ask me, and I had been an extremely timid person. It helped me down the road to become better onstage: to understand that person, your expressions, and most importantly, to fight worries.” Yoncheva received several singing tournaments in Bulgaria, including one where she performed with her sibling, a rock vocalist. She found the interest of Western music artists after enrolling on the Geneva Conservatory, where her instructor was Danielle Borst. She gained a Master’s level there in ’09 2009, and by that point her operatic profession had been well underway: she got caught the interest from the Baroque opera conductor William Christie and became a member of his Jardin des Voix training curriculum in 2007. With Christie she’s made an appearance in touring productions of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and, even more unusually, Rameau’s Les Indes galantes. Yoncheva in addition has caused conductor Emmanuelle Haïm in productions of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (documented for DVD launch), among additional operas. Authorized to Sony Traditional in 2013, Yoncheva became a first-string alternative designer for ailing sopranos at main houses. She produced a significant splash at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2013 like a last-minute alternative in Verdi’s Rigoletto, making raves from NY Instances critic Anthony Tommasini. Her Met debut as Mimi in La bohème adopted the next yr, simply five weeks following the delivery of a boy, Mateo, to Yoncheva and Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan. Yoncheva released her debut recording, Paris, Mon Amour, in 2014. Another alternative slot, to get a touring creation of Gounod’s Faust where Yoncheva changed Anna Netrebko, brought her towards the interest of new Western viewers, and in 2015 she earned Germany’s ECHO Klassik honor as Greatest Newcomer. The entire year 2016 brought clean triumphs: Yoncheva made an appearance as Bellini’s Norma on the Royal Opera Home in London, and she released a assortment of arias by Handel and Purcell, playing to her Baroque solid suit.