Mihail Mihaylov

MIHAIL MIHAYLOV (b. 1987) began his musical training with violin and singing. He graduated from the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music (2011) in the class of Assoc. Prof. Ivanka Ninova. He participated in master classes with Christina Angelakova and Anna Tomowa-Sintow. He made his opera debut as a 22-year-old student in the role of Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. Immediately after graduation, he began to gain stage experience with roles from the lyrical repertoire: Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, Beppe in Rita, Edward in The Marriage Contract, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Fenton in Falstaff, Acis in Acis and Galatea, Bastien in Bastien and Bastienne, and Camille in The Merry Widow. He moved on to the lyric-spinto repertoire and is currently a sought-after soloist in roles such as Alfredo in La Traviata, the Duke in Rigoletto, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Lensky in Eugene Onegin, and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor. In 2013, he made his debut with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in a Verdi/Puccini Gala Concert, and performed Verdi's Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2014 and 2015, he performed opera roles at the Herrenchiemsee Festspiele and Klassik am See festivals in Erlangen. As a finalist at the Operalia (2017) and Concours musical international de Montréal (2018) competitions, he has established his presence on international stages: Teatro del Giglio, Italy; Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, and Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, Spain; Osaka Festival Hall, Japan; the Moscow Kremlin; the National Opera in Bucharest; the Opera in Kraków, as well as the Laval Opéra Festival (France), Opernspiele Munot (Switzerland), Bartók Plusz Operafesztivál (Hungary), and the Jan Kiepura Festival (Poland). In addition to opera roles, Mihaylov's repertoire includes the tenor parts of 20 of the greatest vocal-instrumental works: Verdi's Requiem, Requiem and Stabat Mater by Dvořák, Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven, Messa di Gloria by Puccini, Stabat Mater by Rossini, as well as other works by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Saint-Saëns, and Scriabin. He has performed with numerous symphony orchestras in Bulgaria, Romania, Kosovo, Poland, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In addition, Mihaylov maintains a wide song repertoire, with which he won the Grand Prix at the XIX International Romansiada Competition (Moscow, 2015), Second Prize at the IV International Competition for Song Duos dedicated to the work of Richard Strauss (Sofia, 2015), and First Prize at the Pancho Vladigerov International Competition for Chamber Singing (Shumen, 2018). Over the past two seasons, he has appeared at the Poznań Opera in the role of Alfredo in La Traviata and made his debut in the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Rijeka Opera in Croatia. In November 2019, he partnered with Sonya Yoncheva in her Puccini Gala at Bulgaria Hall with the Sofia Philharmonic under the baton of Nayden Todorov. He participated in the Bulgarian National Radio's production of the concert performance of the opera Eugene Onegin, alongside Krassimira Stoyanova as Tatyana. He was a guest performer at the Plovdiv State Opera and the Burgas State Opera as Rodolfo in La Bohème, at the Szczecin Opera in Poland, and at the Varna Opera as Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore. He sang the tenor solo in Verdi's Requiem with the Sofia Philharmonic, as well as at the opera houses in Białystok and Poznań, Poland. In Katowice, he appeared as guest soloist in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. He participated in the Sigulda Opera Festival in Latvia. He has recordings for Bulgarian National Television, Bulgarian National Radio, TV1, and a studio recording of the opera La Traviata with the Sofia Philharmonic.