Svetla Vassileva was born in Bulgaria. She performs regularly at La Scala in Milan,
Arena in Verona, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, La
Bastille in Paris, the Vienna Staatsoper, Royal Danish Opera in
Copenhagen, as well as at the opera houses Tokyo, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico,
Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles,
Washington, Seattle, Oslo, Copenhagen, Rome, Naples,
Montecarlo, Venice
and many others.
Her
repertoire includes Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Madama Butterfly,
Adriana Lecouvreur, Andrea Chenier, La Fanciulla del West, Don Carlo,
Il Trovatore, Giovanna D'Arco, Attila, Rusalka, The Queen of
Spade, Eugene Onegin, Francesca da Rimini.
She regularly collaborates
with maestros as Bruno
Bartoletti, Zubin Mehta,
Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Kent
Nagano, Yutaka Sardo, Gianandrea Noseda, George
Prêtre, Anton Guadagno, Pinchas Steinberg, Yuri Temirkanov,
Vladimir Jurowski, Gianluigi Gelmetti ,
and directors as Hugo De Ana, Gilbert Deflo, Jean-Louis Grinda, Nicolas Joel, Davide Livermore, David McVicar,
Marta Domingo and movie directors as Franco Zefirelli, Liliana Cavani, Cristina
Comencini, Jean Reno, Gabriele Lavia.
Ms. Vassileva recently performed in the title
role of Madama Butterfly at the Opéra
National de Paris, at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and in
Marseille; Elvira in a new production of Ernani at
the Opera in Monte Carlo; Desdemona in Otello at
the la Cité de la Musique in Paris; Hanna Glawary in Die
Lustige Witwe at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Tosca
(title role) at the Opera Australia, at the Royal Danish Opera in
Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Masada, Genoa, Cagliari,
Trieste, Bologna, Düsseldorf and Parma; Adriana Lecouvreur at
the San Carlo in Naples and in Karlsruhe; Don Carlos in Genoa; Andrea
Chénier in Salerno; Manon Lescaut in
Tokyo; La Fanciulla del
West (Minnie) at the Lirico
di Cagliari and in
Copenhagen; Il Trovatore and
La forza del destino at the New Israeli
Opera in Tel Aviv; La Traviata at the
Hamburgische Staatsoper; Andrea
Chénier in Bari; Il Trovatore
in Tokyo; Suor Angelica
(title role) in Lucca; Aida
(title role) for the opening night of the season at the Teatro Carlo
Felice in Genoa; italian premier of Gomes' Lo Schiavo
(Ilàra) in Cagliari for the season opening night at the
Teatro Lirico.
Plans include Un
ballo in maschera (Amelia) in Beijiing and Andrea Chénier (Maddalena) in Trieste.
Febbruary 2019