Valery Turmanov

baritone

After graduating from the National Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov - Sofia, he specialized in classical singing and acting at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Italy. His debut was at Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Martino in Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro (The Woman from the Lake). He specialized in the master classes of Mirella Freni, Luciana Serra, Renato Bruzon and Luigi Alva in Milan, Italy, as well as in the third academic master class of Anna Tomova-Sintov in Sofia. Next came the role of Holly in "The Italian in Algiers", again by Rossini.
He won First Prize at the International Competition for the Performance of German and Austrian Music "Magic" and Second Prize at the 20th National Competition for Singers and Instrumentalists - Provadia.

He has participated in festivals in Como and Martina Franca, Italy, toured with Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, and Theater Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, and visited Tokyo, Japan with Teatro alla Scala.

Opera repertoire:
Agamemnon ("Belle Helene")
Alfio ("A Country Honor")
Belcore ("Elixir of Love")
Don Giovanni ("Don Giovanni")
Count Almaviva ("The Wedding of Figaro")
Eugene Onegin ("Eugene Onegin")
Enrico ("Lucia di Lammermoor")
Escamillo ("Carmen")
Georges Germont ("La Traviata")
Martino ("The Woman of the Lake")
Kovalev ("The Nose")
Marcel ("Bohemians")
Nelsusco ("The African Woman")
Robert ("Iolanta")
Silvio ("Pagliacci")
Taddeo "The Italian Girl in Algiers")
Figaro ("The Barber of Seville")
Franz Joseph ("Sissy - The Empress's Soul")
Sharpless ("Madame Butterfly")

Cantata-oratorio works:
Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)