
Mezzo-soprano (coloratura)
A pianist-turned-mezzo-soprano trained in Sofia, Kasarova emerged as an international artist following her triumphant substitution for Marilyn Horne as Tancredi at the 1992 Salzburg Festival, an audacious debut that launched a career of uncommon distinction. Over three decades, she has become the preeminent interpreter of bel canto and Mozart's trouser roles, commanding the world's greatest opera stages with a voice of crystalline clarity and growing dramatic weight. Now recognized as a Kammersängerin in both Bavaria and Austria, she remains a defining mezzo-soprano of the contemporary lyric stage.
Sang Tancredi in two concert performances at the Salzburg Festival, substituting for Marilyn Horne, establishing herself as an international artist of the first rank (1992)
Hristina Morfova School of Music and Performing Arts, Stara Zagora (diploma, 1987); Bulgarian State Music Academy, Sofia (diploma, 1989)
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