Мария Барбиери: „Български певци на хърватската оперна сцена“
Marija Barbieri: Bulgarian Singers on the Croatia Opera Stage

Summary/Abstract: In this book, Marija Barbieri, in her capacity as a highly regarded opera professional and also on the basis of numerous analyses by other scholars, presents Bulgarian singers who performed on the Croatian stage between 1920 and 2006. The first of them included Petar Raychev, Mimi Balkanska, Marian Radeva, Todor Mazarov, Neli Karova, Maria Milkova-Zolotovic, Mihail Popov and so on. After the Second World War, 76 Bulgarian singers visited Croatia, 14 of whom were employed full-time or as permanent guest-performers. According to Barbieri: “the Bulgarian opera school is a sign of quality.” Among those who made a particularly lasting impression on Croatia’s operatic memory in the second half of the 20th century are Mariana Radeva, Stoyan Stoyanov, Veneta Yaneva Ivelic, Zlatomira Nikolova, Ivan Stefanov and Valentin Enchev. Others made an impression with a single performance: Rayna Kabaivanska, Nikola Nikolov and Dimitar Uzunov, Lyubomir Bodurov and Yulia Wiener-Chenisheva, and Svetlana Kotlenko. In recent years, visitors have included Bozhidar Nikolov, Svetla Vasileva, Gabriela Georgieva, Kamen Chanev, Kaludi Kaludov and Kiril Manolov. The author emphasizes: “Bulgarian artists arrived [in Croatia] as finished works, well-trained, with wide general and musical knowledge, and made their valuable contribution to Croatian opera... without them Croatian opera would not be nearly as rich... especially Croatia’s musical stages after the Second World War”.

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