IVAN VARBANOV, opera singer (baritone)
Stage name - JOHNNY BULGARO
E: jbulgaro@gmail.com
ART CV
Education
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC – BULGARIA, Sofia /1990 – 1995/
magister, opera singer
Prof.Christina Angelakova and proof. Iliya Yossifov
THE EUROPEAN OPERA CENTRE - Manchester, UK /1995 – 1996/
Activities and Societies: TOSCA COURSE, master class – Renata Scotto, Kent Nagano
Experience
NATIONAL MUSIC THEATRE - Sofia, Bulgaria
April 1997 – October 1999
artist soloist - opera singer
NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET – Sofia,Bulgaria
April 2001 – September 2007
soloist, opera singer
soloist, opera singer
Roles:
"Faust"- Gounod - Valentin; "La Traviata" - Verdi - G. Germont; “Carmen” - Bizet - Morales, Dancairo;”Rigoletto - Verdi- Marullo;
”Un Ballo In Maschera” - Verdi - Silvano;"Fedora" - Giordano - De Sirex; „ Il Barbiere di Seviglia” - Rossini - Figaro;
"Vespri Siciliani” - Verdi - Roberto; „Pagliacci" - Ruggero Leoncavallo - Silvio; "Dido and Aeneas" - Pursel - Aeneas;
"Die Zauberflöte" - Mozart - Papageno; "L'Italiana In Algeri" - Rossini – Taddeo.
Opera projects - Collaboration companies
UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, "COMPANIONS BV" - The Netherlands,
"PROMMUSIC" - Belgium, "OPERA 2001" - Spain, "RASKOV MUSIC MANAGEMENT" - Austria, "CLASSIC OPEN AIR” – Switzerland.
Additional Honors & Awards
"THE GOLDEN CHRYSANTHEMUM", International Competition – Romania /1992/
First Prize for Canzonetta
"IMRE KALMAN Competition" – Bulgaria, Sofia /1993/
Second Prize for operetta , award by Vera Kalman
The 8-th International Festival of Russian Song - London,UK /2014/
Royal college of music
Silver medal
