The Russian soprano, Lyudmila Mikhailova (Lyudmila Mikhailova; Liudmila Mihaylova), graduated from the High School of Music / currently NUMSI "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" / in Burgas in the cello class of Jasmina Cherneva. Awarded a gold medal for success in education. She studied composition with Rositsa Toncheva and classical singing with Naiden Borodzhiev. She has received numerous awards and distinctions at national competitions for cellists in Provadia, Kyustendil and Burgas, and national and international competitions for composers, of which the Special Award for Composition at the World Festival "To Round The World With Hearts" - Tokyo, Japan 1987. Under the direction of Rositsa Toncheva she ggave concert performances with her compositions in the country. Winner of the national competition in Provadia for composers in 1988, she participated in the International Festival of New Music - "Do - Re - Mi" in 1987 with his compositions, as well as in the Third International Assembly "Flag of of Peace '' - Sofia.
In 1990, Lyudmila Mikhailova entered the Music Academy in Sofia, where she studied cello with Professor Zdravko Yordanov, classical singing with Associate Professor Sili Bratchkova and composition with Professor Alexander Raichev. She graduated in 1995 with a degree in cello at the Faculty of Instrumentation and classical singing at the Faculty of Vocal. Her state exam is on the stage of the Burgas Opera with the role of Gilda in the opera Rigoletto by Verdi under the baton of her teacher from the Academy of Music, Professor Ivan Vulope. Due to the huge success of the performance, the management of the opera offered her a contract as a full-time soloist, since 1995 she has been a soloist at the Burgas State Opera. Over the years she has sung many central soprano parts in operas, operettas, cantata and oratorio works, children 's performances and musicals.
Her repertoire includes: Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Queen of the Night in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Mikaela in Georges Bizet's Carment, Naneta in Verdi's Falstaff, Donna Anna in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Constanta in W.A. Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Fiordeligi in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme, Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Anna in Verdi's Nabucco and others. From the operetta repertoire: Elena in Offenbach's Beautiful Helena, in Strauss' Gypsy Baron, Rosalinda in Strauss's Bat, Valenciennes in Lehar's The Merry Widow, Stasi in Kalman's "The Queen of Chardasha" by Kalman, Mania in Lehar's Countess Maritsa, Lila in Karastoyano's Bulgarians of old by and others. Musicals: Katie in Feltzman's Charlie's Aunt, Anichka in Parashkev Hadjiev's Sluzhbogontsi, Shiykova in Parashkev Hadjiev's Sluzhbogontsi, Bonka in Georgi Kostov's The Four Twins, Becky in Alexander Yosifov's American Weekend, Alice in Alexander Yosifov's Alice in Wonderland, Snow White in Atanas Kosev Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by; and oratorio-cantata works: W.A. Mozart's Coronation Mass, W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Johannes Brahms' German Requiem, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater , J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243), Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria.
Lyudmila Mikhailova specialized in vocal skills with Alexandrina Milcheva and Fyodora Barbieri. He twice received the award for best performance as an opera singer at the International Tyrolean Singing Academy in Austria (1997-1998). She has toured in Spain, France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. She organizes and realizes concert projects with singers and a small orchestra, and she herself participates as a vocal performer and cello - solo. She makes transcriptions for various musical formations of famous works, which he includes in his concerts. He is the winner of the Award for active creative activity of the Bulgarian National Radio for 2016.
Recordings and TV appearances: In 1992 she recorded CD "Metamorphoses" - for 12 cellos - salts by Lazar Nikolov together with his professor Zdravko Yordanov. In 1996 she recorded for BNT J. Brahms' German Requiem - solo soprano, conductor Georgi Dimitrov; with the participation of the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir "Svetoslav Obretenov" - Sofia. In the role of Donna Anna in W.A. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni 2003 - the premiere of OFD Burgas - broadcast by TV "7 Days". In the role of Fiordiligi in W.A. Mozart's opera Così fan tutte in 2005 - the premiere of OFD Burgas - broadcast by regional television RN-Channel 0 - Burgas. In 2015 she recorded an advertising film based on her idea for the promotion of cultural tourism in Bulgaria and the old churches, together with the Municipality of Nessebar: "Faith in Nessebar", where she tells about them and performs Tosca's aria from Puccini's opera of the same name. The film has been translated into 5 languages and distributed by tour operators outside Bulgaria. The idea is for some of the churches to be united in cultural and tourist. |