STARS OF THE FUTURE - RUSALINA MOCHUKOVA
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THE STARS OF THE FUTURE
Christina Angelakova presents Rusalina Mochukova
On April 23, Saturday, at 11.00 a.m. in the foyer of the Stara Zagora Opera will take place the second edition of the series STARS OF THE FUTURE. In the spotlight this time is soprano Rusalina Mochukova, who will be presented by opera prima Hristina Angelakova. A star in the sky will officially bear the names of two earth stars - the international certificate commissioned by the Association "Trustees of Stara Zagora Opera" will be awarded for the second time at the end of the matinee by the Chair of the Trustees Mrs. Tatiana Stancheva.
The world-renowned opera singer Christina Angelakova, who conquered the most prestigious opera stages with her voice, sang under the baton of the greatest conductors of the 20th century in the partnership of Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, Renato Bruzon, Gena Dimitrova, Nikolay Giaurov, continues her stellar path by passing on her experience and skills to young talents. One of her most talented students is soprano Rusalina Mochukova. And today, when Rusalina Mochukova already has behind her a rich repertoire and brilliant stage appearances in Bulgaria and around the world, the teacher-student relationship is not broken. Rusalina Mochukova continues to seek the advice and support of her adored teacher, to share her problems and joys, to enjoy her presence in the opera house. Christina Angelakova, for her part, does not miss the opportunity to travel to support another success of her student, as well as to invite her to participate in the opera projects that the tireless opera prima initiates and organizes constantly.
On 23 April Hristina Angelakova will present Rusalina Mochukova to the Stara Zagora audience. And Rusalina Mochukova will delight her friends and admirers with an attractive program of arias and songs by Handel, Pergolesi, Reynaldo Hahn, Rachvaninov, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein... Some of the selected arias the soprano will perform for the first time in Bulgaria - they are included in her album "Antique Arias", recorded in Austria and which will be released on CD by the end of the year. Piano accompaniment by Snezhina Vrangova.
Rusalina Mochukova graduated in 2003 as a Master in Opera Singing at the National Music Academy "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov - Sofia in the class of Assoc. Kristina Angelakova. In 2005 she won a two-year scholarship in the name of Nikolay Giaurov given to her personally by Mirela Freni for specialization in "CUBEC - Centro Universale del Bel Canto " - Vignolla, Italy - in the class of Mirela Freni, as well as pedagogical specialization in the class of Sergio Bertocchia Paola Mullinari. During the same period she also participated in Svetlana Groshevskaya's (Guzik Foundation, San Francisco Opera) Master Class - Vocal Interpretation of Chamber Music in Russian.
At the age of 20 she made her debut on the stage of the National Opera and Ballet-Sofia in the roles of Zerlina from the opera Don Giovanni and Susanna from Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro. In the summer of the same year she appeared with the Sofia Opera at the Solothurn Festival in the roles of Zerlina from Don Giovanni, Susanna from The Marriage of Figaro and Frasquita from Carmen under the baton of Giorgio Croci. Permanent engagements in these roles at the Sofia Opera followed, with the addition of Oscar from "Masked Ball", Susanna from Peter Schaffner's play - a co-production of the National Opera and the Youth Theatre. In 2004 Rusalina Mochukova visited Palma de Mallorca in the role of Micaela from Bizet's Carmen.
In 2006 she participated in a series of concerts in Modena, Reggio Emilia and Piacenza - Italy with the virtuoso pianist Svetlana Groshevskaya.
In 2006 she made her debut on the stage of the Bavarian Chamber Opera in the role of Bastien from Mozart's opera Bastien und Bastienne. In the same year she won the special prize for the best performance of a bel canto aria at the Opera Mania competition in Vienna.
In 2007 he participated in the "Stewart Burroughs" competition in Cardiff-Wales, where he was among the five selected finalists.
In 2008 she made her debut on the Salzburg Opera stage in the world premiere of Joel Dirmeier's opera "Joplin`s Life in Rag time" in the role of Trimonisha.
Since 2010 she has been a permanent guest teacher at Studio Klang Art Vienna where she has been conducting a series of masterclasses with American pianist Shenda Vanderhardt.
In the same year he started his joint project with Ruslan Muinov and maestro Vladimir Boshnakov, which has been a huge success with over 30 concerts performed throughout Bulgaria.
Since 2011 she has been a soloist of the Stara Zagora Opera, where she has appeared in the roles of Mimi from "La Boheme", Liu from "Turandot", Micaela from "Carmen", Violetta from "La Traviata", Juliet from "King for a Day", Rosalinda from "The Bat", Galatea from "Acis and Galatea", Desdemona from "Otello".
In 2015, together with the American pianist Shenda Vanderhard, she recorded an album of ancient arias in Vienna, which is to be released by the end of this year. In March 2016 she made her debut in the role of Amelia from Verdi's opera Simone Bocanegra on the stage of the Rousse Opera - within the framework of the International Music Festival "March Music Days".
Her repertoire also includes the roles of the Countess from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", Olvira from Bellini's "Les Puritans", Manon from Masne's opera of the same name, Margarita from Gounod's "Faust", Demiramide from Rossini's opera of the same name, Leonora from Verdi's "Il Trovatore", Neza from Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and others.
She has appeared on the stages of all opera houses in Bulgaria. She has given concerts in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, South Korea.
CHRISTINA ANGELAKOVA is a graduate of the Music Academy in Sofia under Professor Sima Ivanova and "Santa Cecilia" in Rome. She specialised in Venice in the Baroque vocal style and at the Centre for the Improvement of Young Singers at the Scala di Milano with the world-famous singer Gina Cigna. Her career began happily: a three-year contract with the Scala di Milano, where Christina Angelakova made her artistic debut in the role of Ulrica from "Masked Ball". New roles were added - Jocasta from Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Adalgisa from Norma, Leonora from The Favourite, Elizabeth from Mary Stewart, Jane Seymour from Anna Boleyn and Sara from Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, among others. He also participated in performances of the Piccola Scala, and toured Italy with the famous Orchestra "Virtuosi di Roma", with whom he appeared in the Baroque repertoire.
Her creative formation took place in the skilful hands of the greatest conductors and directors of the 1970s, of the rank of Gavazzeni, Abbado, Maderna, Renato Fasano, Thomas Schippers, Barshai, Vl. Christina Angelakova has been a soloist of the National Opera Theatre since 1976. On its stage she has performed a series of brilliant artistic renditions of roles from Italian, Russian, French and Bulgarian opera: Amneris, Azucena, Carmen, Santuzza, Isabella from Rossini's La Italiana in Algiers, Madelon from André Chenier, the Countess and Paulina from Dame Picca, Marina from Boris Godunov, Marfa from Prokofiev's "La Chauvenste", Akhrosimova from "War and Peace", Duenna from Prokofiev's "Engagement in the Convent", Lucrezia from Britten's "The Taming of the Shrew", etc. The singer also contributed a lot to the popularization of Bulgarian operas such as "Khan Krum" by Alexander Yossifov, "Khan Asparuh" by Al. Raichev, "Salambo" by Veselin Stoyanov.
Parallel to her activities in Bulgaria, she also had a great international career, which took her to the stages of the Scala, the Rome Opera, the Deutscheoper - Berlin, Munich, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Liege, Leipzig, Bologna, Palermo, Ravenna, the Bolshoi Theatre - Moscow, Rouen, Athens... He has given concerts all over Europe and at home with prestigious orchestras, chamber ensembles and choirs - Beethoven - Ninth Symphony, Mahler - Songs for Dead Children and Eighth Symphony, Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky, Janacek - Glagolitic Mass, Respighi - The Sunset...
She has made numerous radio and television recordings for RAI ("Armida" by Gluck, "Luisa Miller" by Verdi, etc.), for BNR, BNT, has released CDs and records on "Balkanton", "Gega New"...
From 2001 to 2004 Hristina Angelakova was the first woman director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet. In the period 2004 - 2008 as the chairman of the National Opera and Ballet Foundation she implemented some of the most significant events in the cultural calendar of the capital. Since 2012 he has been the Artistic Director of the Mozart Festival in Pravets. Associate Professor of the State Academy of Performing Arts "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov - Sofia. Since 2005 for 3 years he has been a lecturer of opera singing at New Bulgarian University. He gave master classes - 2009 in Veliko Tarnovo and Pravets, 2010 in Balchik, 2011 in Burgas.
In 2009 was her directorial debut with the production of the opera "So Do They All" by V. А. Mozart at the State Music and Drama Theatre "Konstantin Kisimov", Veliko Tarnovo. She has repeatedly been a jury member in various music competitions at home and abroad. She took an active part in the establishment and holding of the international competition for young opera singers in the name of Elena Nikolai 2013, Panagyurishte.
In 2015 Hristina Angelakova was awarded with the high state decoration "St. С. Cyril and Methodius" necklace. Honorary citizen of the town of Isperih, holder of the honorary title "Merited Artist" and "People's Artist", the honorary title "Commendatore" of the Italian Republic for outstanding services to the culture of Italy. He has twice received the Crystal Lyre of the Union of Bulgarian Music and Dance Artists, the Russian Zalataya Muse for creative excellence. She was elected a member and is currently an honorary member of the Board of Trustees of the International Research Foundation Hassumi-Bulgaria.
Christina Angelakova won first prize at the International Competition for Young Opera Singers, Sofia 1975, first prize at the International Competition in Treviso, Italy, first prize at the International Competition Ostend - Belgium.
Snezhina Vrangova-Petkova was born in 1978 in Gorna Oryahovitsa. She has shown her versatile interests and abilities since the years of her studies at the University of Transport "Sv. Kiril and Methodius", where she received the qualification degree "Bachelor" (1996-2000) and Master's degree (2000-2002) with specialization "piano" under prof. Prof. Yovcho Krushev. In 2004-2005 he defended his master's degree at the NMA "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" at the Theoretical and Compositional Faculty, majoring in musicology, music analysis. In 2005-2008 he was a doctoral student in music analysis at the NMA "Proff. D. Tomi Karklisiski and in 2009 successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the Bulgarian piano concerto.
Snezhina Vrangova's professional development has been connected with a wide range of activities and performances, revealing music in all its richness and meaning: performing pianist, choirmaster, teacher of musical analysis: in the period 1998-2010 she was choirmaster and accompanist in the choir "Slavic Unity" in Sofia, Bulgaria. Between 2002 and 2012 he was a lecturer in music analysis and a accompanist at the University of Performing Arts "Sv. She was also a teacher and professor of music at St. Since 2010 he has been the choirmaster at MDT "Konstantin Kisimov", Veliko Tarnovo.
Since February 2013 he has been a lecturer and currently an associate professor of music analysis at NMA "Prof. Professor of Musicology at the Academy of Music of Ukraine. In parallel with this, Snezhina Vrangova is developing an active scientific and research activity, without losing the living relationship with music, revealed in the organic creative combination of the scientific researcher, the teacher and the practicing musician - pianist, chamber musician, choirmaster, accompanist - who is able to "from the inside", really realize, achieve and interpret the music.Snezhina Vrangova's participation in the concert project "Stars of the Future" is a provocation in this direction, linking her recent monographic research "From Song to Art Form in Instrumental Music" to the living existence of song and aria today.