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Svetlana Doneva comes from Bulgaria and studied in Sofia and Rome. She won prizes in various competitions in Italy. Afterwards she held a scholarship at the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera, where she also had the opportunity to take over the role of Maria Stuarda covering for Edita Gruberova. She gave her debut at the Sofia Opera as Gretel (in Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel”) and as Gilda, and also as Lucia, Mimi and Violetta in St. Zagora. In September 2003, Svetlana Doneva performed Musetta in La Bohème in Palma de Mallorca and sang in La Traviata in Barcelona. 

The artist gave a guest performance as Konstanze in Aachen and Karlsruhe. Then she performed in La Traviata and sang as Gilda in Rome, followed by La Traviata in 2005 in Frankfurt as well as in 2006 at the Operà de Marseille. In May 2006, she performed Donna Anna by Thomas Hengelbrock at the Feldkirch Festival and by René Jacobs at the “Festival für Alte Musik” in Innsbruck. Another guest performance followed in La Traviata, as Ginevra in Ariodante and as Konstanze at the Frankfurt Opera.  

Under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock, she acted the role of Euridice in Gluck’s Orpheus at the Garnier Opera in Paris, and the role of Händel’s Epidaurus and Alcina in Freiburg and Ludwigsburg. 

In summer 2008, Svetlana Doneva performed as Donna Anna at the Salzburg Festival. In 2009 and 2011 she sang as Donna Anna and Euridice at the “Grand Théâtre de Genève”, and in 2010 she celebrated a big success in the role of Katja (Weinberg’s “Die Passagierin“) at the world premiere at the Bregenz Festival. Also in 2010, she had the opportunity to sing as Katja and Martha (“Die Passagierin“) at the Wielki National Theatre in Warsaw. 

At the Lucerne Festival, Svetlana Doneva gave her debut as Vitellia in “La clemenza di Tito” in 2013, and in 2014 at the Lucerne Opera very successfully played her master role, Violetta, in La Traviata under the direction of James Gaffigan. In 2014 and 2015, she successfully performed as Vitellia in the new production of the National Opera of Bratislava under the direction of Friedrich Haider.

She also performed in concerts in Spain and Berlin in Carmina Burana by L. Zagrosek, in Zurich in Brahm’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, in Händel’s Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elias, in Bamberg in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony by J. Nott, in Santjago de Compostela in Jomelli’s Ezio by Alan Curtis, in Madrid in Händel’s Solomon by A. Spering and in Lausanne in Dvorak’s Stabat Mater by Christian Zacharias.

Svetlana Doneva - Ehinger

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