The tenor Boyko Tsvetanov has always been a welcome, but rare guest on Bulgarian stage. Being too busy, he hasn’t recorded for the BNR recently too. His appearance as Eugene Onegin’s Lensky at the Solothurn Opera festival in Switzerland in the summer of 2009 was highly appreciated. Then came the idea of recording fragments from Tchaikovsky’s operas, conducted by Igor Bogdanov – a magnificent musician, who studied at the Moscow and Saint Petersburg’s Musical Academies and has been living and working in Bulgaria for over 15 years now. The young soloist from the Sofia opera Radostina Nikolaeva also took part in the recordings, made right before Mr Tsvetanov’s 55th anniversary. Let’s listen now to a fragment from the Iolanta and Vaudemont duo from Tchaikovsky’s opera “Iolanta”, performed by Boyko Tsvetanov and Radostina Nikolaeva with the BNR’s orchestra, conducted by Igor Bogdanov.
Boyko Tsvetanov was born in Sofia in 1955. He graduated opera singing at the National Musical Academy as a student of prof Tchavdar Hadjiev. He continued his musical education in Rome with the famous Bulgarian bass Boris Hristov and then with Carlo Bergonzi at the “Verdi” Academy in Busseto, Italy. He became a soloist of the Bulgarian National Opera in Sofia after 1982. In 1988 he won the first prize at the Bilbao International Singing Competition in Spain. In 1991 he joined the Zurich opera, where he has been singing since then. You will listen now to an aria of Don Jose out of Act 2 from Bizet’s “Carmen”
This has been an aria of Don Jose from Bizet’s “Carmen”, performed by Boyko Tsvetanov with BNR’s orchestra, conducted by Igor Bogdanov. Boyko Tsvetanov’s repertoire includes almost 50 leading tenor parties from works of Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Rossini, Tchaikovsky and Bellini. At the end, listen to Herman’s arioso out of the “Queen of Spades” third act by Tchaikovsky.
English version: Zhivko Stanchev
