Kiril Manolov, baritone
Kiril Manolov, baritone
Born in Sofia, Kiril Manolov graduated from the National Academy of Music and specialized in opera singing in Milan and Vienna. Winner of the competitions for young opera singers in Vienna, Warsaw and Barcelona. He is the winner of the Grand Prize "Golden Ring of Sofia" at the 14th International Competition for Young Opera Singers Boris Hristov, a prize awarded only 4 times in the 60-year history of the competition.
Manolov has been a frequent guest on the stages of opera houses in Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Chicago, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Budapest, Lisbon, Brussels, Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Parma, festivals in Ravenna, Macerata, Savonlinna, Dubrovnik, Palma de Mallorca, and many other.
His creative path intersects with some of the greatest conductors and directors in the opera world - Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Carlo Rizzi, Simone Yang, Alexander Vedernikov, Damiano Micheletto, Arnaud Bernard, Dietrich Hilsdorf, David McVicker and others.
After his highly successful debut at the opera festival in Ravenna, Italy, in the role of Sir John Falstaff from the opera Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi, the Italian critic and conductor Riccardo Muti defined him as the new greatest performer of this role of our time. His long-term collaboration with Maestro Muti brings Manolov the privilege of being a frequent and welcome guest in the Maestro's productions around the world.
Kirill Manolov's repertoire includes a wide range of opera works by Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Rossini, Mozart, Gounod, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Kurt Weill, a number of cantata-oratorio works by Bach, Beethoven, Faure and Brahms, as well as chamber music by Bulgarian and foreign composers.
His recordings are numerous for the Bulgarian National Radio, the Croatian Radio and Television HRT, the Austrian National Radio ORF, etc. He has released CDs of his performances for production companies such as RMM and Harmonia Mundi.
Kiril Manolov is an assistant at the Vocal Faculty of the Pancho Wladigerov State Academy of Music.
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