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