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Zeffirelli and conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, Suor Angelica, directed by Ronconi, conducted by Chailly with whom she has sung again for the inauguration of the new theatre of the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago. Svetla had a great experience, singing La Traviata under the direction of Marta Domingo and right after she started a big collaboration with the biggest tenor of our days, Plácido Domingo- concerts all around the world, I Pagliacci, conducted by Riccardo Muti and directed by Liliana Cavani, La Traviata and I Pagliacci at ROH Covent Garden. She has played this role also in Arena di Verona, Rome Opera, Festival Sant' Ander with Anton Guadagno, Grand Theatre de Geneve, Turin. She has been bowed as Traviata at Maggio Musicale in Florence and Tokyo, conducted by Zubin Mehta and directed by the Oscar, Cristina Comencini. Svetla is loved by a long list of movie directors and artists like Franco Zeffirelli, Liliana Cavani, Lina Wertmüller, Cristina Comencini, Gabriele Lavia, Jean Reno.She has filmed I Pagliacci, opposite Roberto Alagna.
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Rusalka she has obtained the music critics award Abbiati. She sang Rusalka again in Turin, conducted by Noseda and directed by Carsen at the Opera Rome with Gullberg Jensen and Denis Krief. She obtained a wonderful reviews by the public and critics for her emotional interpretation of Madama Butterfly all around the world- Arena di Verona, directed by Zeffirelli, Sevilla, San Francisco, conducted by Luisotti, La Bastille-Paris, directed by Bob Wilson, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, conducted by Pinchas Steinberg. One of her biggest recognitions she had was with Francesca da Rimini by Zandonai at Opera Bastille in Paris, directed by Giancarlo del Monaco. In Los Angeles she has sung Puccini's Turandot with Berio's last act, presented for the first time in USA. Svetla sings also Russian repertoire, including Evgenij Onegin in Genova and Turin, Pique dame in Turin, conducted by Noseda, Iolanta at Santa Cecilia-Rome with Yuri Temirkanov. Later she recorded with the BBC and Gianandrea Noseda, Aleko, The Bells and Francesca da Rimini by Rachmaninov.
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Bologna with Gatti, Die vier letzten lieder by Strauss for the inauguration of the new airport in Mahon, Madeira. She made her debut in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in Beijing, China, conducted by Lü Jia, with great success and presented Lo Schiavo by Gomes for the first time in Italy. Svetla is frequently requested to do master classes all around the world. She has done a coaching for opera singers in Japan, Mexico City, France. Svetla was testimonial of Chanel, for the Chelsea Flower Show, where the mind work of Tom Stuart- Smith and Karl Lagerfeld won the gold award. She has sung also for Cartier special events and Ford benefit concerts by Mercedes “Stars and Cars”. Recently, Svetla sang for the Green house group's special event in Tokyo with the violinist Vasko Vassilev. Svetla Vassileva is a special guest at Andrea Bocelli's concerts and world tours in Europe and USA. She is testimonial of Boothroyd and Stuart's Meridian audio.
186:, and many others. She performs regularly at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala in Milano as well as at the opera houses of Paris, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Rome, Florence, Turin, Geneva, Tokyo, Naples, Oslo, Monte Carlo, Venice and many others. She has worked and continues to work with conductors, such as Bruno Bartoletti, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Vladimir Jurowski, Nicola Luisotti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta,
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Vassileva discography includes CD & DVD recordings: Nozze istriane by Smareglia (live from Trieste; CD), Aleko and Francesca da Rimini by Rachmaninov with BBC Orchestra (CD), Francesca da Rimini by Zandonai (CD), Pagliacci (with Roberto Alagna; DVD), Pagliacci (with Plácido Domingo; DVD),
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Vassileva concert performances have included Mahler's Symphony no. 4 in Bologna with Daniele Gatti, Tchaikovsky's Iolanta at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Roma with Yuri Temirkanov, Rossini's Stabat Mater conducted by Riccardo Chailly, Verdi's Messa da Requiem conducted by Lorin
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Desdemona in Otello, Leonora in La forza del destino, Violetta in La traviata, Alice Ford in Falstaff (Verdi), the title role in Madama Butterfly, La rondine, Suor Angelica and Manon Lescaut, Liu in Turandot (Puccini), the title role in Rusalka (Dvorak), Lisa in Pique Dame,
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Bartoletti with whom she sang I Pagliacci at Chicago Lyric Opera and Genova, Giovanna d'Arco and Otello at Festival Verdi Parma, The sieben todsünden, directed by Hugo de Ana in Macerata, Cardillac, directed by Liliana Cavani in Genova. For her Traviata
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Vassileva appears on many of the world's leading operatic stages, including Teatro alla Scala, ROH Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, San Francisco Opera, NCPA Beijing, New National Tokyo Theatre, Sydney Opera Theatre, New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Washington Opera,
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Her latest successes are in Beirut with Medea by Cherubini, La Fanciulla del West by Puccini in Copenhagen and Don Carlo in Genoa. She has sung Requiem Verdi, conducted by Lorin Maazel at Festival Verdi- Parma, Jerusalem, Masada, Rossini's Stabat Mater at La Scala of Milan with Chailly, Mahler's
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A native of Bulgaria, Svetla Vassileva graduated in The Academy of Music in Sofia in voice and piano. After the university she moved to Italy. Actually she has two nationalities- Bulgarian and Italian. Soon she achieved the biggest stages as Teatro alla Scala di Milano where she has sung for the
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Svetla Vassileva performed in a wide range of roles encompassing the repertoire of Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, Donizetti, Leoncavallo, Hindemith and Weill working with such conductors as Bruno Bartoletti, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel,
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she may be in real life – the person I saw on that stage was 15 years old, naïve, and totally in love with a skunk."
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