Bulgarian baritone Valdimir Stoyanov, will be in the production of Verdi’s Otello being staged by Gaulitana: A Festival of Music.
The festival said that it has engaged this world-renowned baritone for the extremely crucial role of Iago, thus complementing the Otello of Lithuanian tenor Kristian Benedikt.
It explained that Vladimir Stoyanov was mentored by the famous Bulgarian opera singer Nicola Ghiuselev, after which he commenced an impressive career, gaining international recognition as one of the leading baritones in the opera scene.
He regularly appears in the most prestigious theatres worldwide, whether Milan’s La Scala, Milan, New York’s Metropolitan Opera, London’s Covent Garden, Paris’s Opéra, Berlin’s State Opera, or Vienna’s, to name a few.
He has worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Sejei Ozawa, Daniel Oren, Nello Santi, Riccardo Muti, Marco Armiliato, Chung, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Donato Renzetti, and Renato Palumbo, and directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Stefan Herheim, Ugo de Anna, Arno Bernard, and Stefani Mazzonis di Pralafera.
Stoyanov’s soft and extended baritone voice as well as his natural dramatic instinct made him very adapt to the Belcanto repertoire, especially Verdi’s repertoire. For this, he has been acclaimed by the critics.
The Festival highlighted a particularly significant and pertinent review of his Iago by the schwaebische.de – “Verdi actually wanted to call his opera … Iago. The new production at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden would have justified this, because Vladimir Stoyanov creates the role of the darkling (obscurantist / reactionary) so gripping that he steals the show from the title character.”
Verdi’s Otello is being staged at Gozo’s Teatru Aurora, on Saturday, the 25th of April and online booking is open on www.teatruaurora.com [1]