Violetta Radomirska

VIOLETTA RADOMIRSKA (Mezzo-Soprano) graduated from the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music and has been a student of the renowned mezzo-soprano Alexandrina Miltcheva since 1996. In 1999, she became a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich, where she remained until 2001. In 2002, she received the Le Prix Europeen d'encouragement award from the European Cultural Foundation, which annually honours 10 outstanding young musicians from across Europe. At the Zurich Opera, Radomirska has participated in numerous performances, including Salome, Sly, Le donne curiose, Hernani and Rigoletto and La belle Hélène, singing under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Nello Santi, Valery Gergiev, Marcello Viotti and William Christie, to name but a few. Between 2002 and 2006, Radomirska was part of the Lucerne Opera Company, participating in productions of Carmen, The Magic Flute, Armida, Die Fledermaus, Dido and Aeneas and numerous concerts. In June 2002, she took part in a performance of Szymanowski's Stabat Mater in Milan with the RAI orchestra conducted by Arnold Bosman. Since 2004, Radomirska joined the Biel-Solothurn Opera company (Switzerland), where she performed numerous central mezzo-soprano parts. In 2012, she participated in the recording of the opera Le donne Curiose by Ermanno Volf-Ferrari with the Munich Radio Orchestra. In 2013, she was a soloist in Verdi's Requiem at the KKL Lucerne (Switzerland), guest starred in Aachen (Germany) in the title role in Handel's Ariodante and in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, and was a soloist in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and others. A freelancer since 2014, she has appeared in a number of concerts and stage productions, including Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, the Mass of the Armed Man and Stabat Mater by Karl Jenkins, Requiem by Mozart, Stabat Mater by Rossini, Stabat Mater by Antonin Dvorak, to name but a few; she has performed a number of Baroque works as well as opera repertoire. Some of her performances include: Verdi's La forza del destino at the Plovdiv Opera, Bizet's Carmen at the Sofia Opera; Elektra by Richard Strauss at La Scala in Milan (debut in 2018/2019), Requiem by Verdi with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, concerts in Zurich, Lucerne, Munich. In recent seasons, she has sung on the stage of the Sofia Opera as Carmen, Amneris from Verdi's Aida and Eboli from Don Carlos, Olga from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Polina from The Queen of Spades, Mallika from Delibes' Lakmé, Malcolm in Rossini's The Lady of the Lake, Neris in Cherubini's Medea, and others. She has performed with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and other ensembles.