MILLA MIHOVA (Soprano) graduated from the National Music Academy “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov”. She studied singing under the opera prima Darina Takova. She was a fellow of the Raina Kabaivanska Foundation at the New Bulgarian University and of the Boris Christoff Foundation for the Opera Studio at the Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome, where she specialized with Renata Scotto. Successful debuts followed, such as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Opera Festival Opperosa in Herceg Novi, Montenegro, Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Fortuna and Drusilla in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, and soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Portugal. In 2018, she was selected to join the L’Accademia Rossiniana “Alberto Zedda”, at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, where she made her debut as Madame Cortese in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims at Teatro Rossini. She was soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Bulgaria and Little Solemn Mass at Le Grand Amphitheatre de la Sorbonne – Paris (in a concert organized by ROF). She has performed extensively in Italy, Spain, Germany, etc.
At the invitation of the ppIANISSIMO festival, together with Nikolay Stoykov, they created the project “BJORK Alternative”, which presents the Icelandic singer and composer Björk with arrangements of some of her most famous songs in a version for opera singer and accompaniment on harpsichord, celesta and piano. At the invitation of Radio France Musique, they performed a live capsule version of this project, broadcast from the Theatre de l’Alliance Francaise in Paris. There have been recital programmes with pianists Nikolay Stoykov and Vasilena Atanasova, and with Richard Barker and Giulio Zappa. In January 2024 she sang opposite the world-renowned bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel, and in July ahe performed a number of arias and duets by Puccini in an opera Gala with the Sofia Philharmonic. Her current operatic engagements include debuts at the Opera Houses in Mainz and Augsburg in Germany, the Opera Open Festival in Plovdiv and the Varna Opera, and recitals at home and abroad. She is about to make her debuts in La Traviata, Falstaff, Pagliacci and other operas.