Andriana Yordanova

Who is Andriana Yordanova?

Andriana Yordanova is a Bulgarian-born soprano who started her career as a soloist in the school choir and the Children's opera in her home town of Varna. Her first performances at home and abroad were in 1985 in Amstetten and Baden bei Wien, Austria with the central role in a children's musical.

In 1992 she obtained her Master degree in Russian Language and Literature in the Sofia University and in the same year she continued her music studies in the National Music Academy under the guidance of Professor Ilka Popova. During her studies she won a prize in the First Academic Competition and a bursary from Kraft Jacobs Suchard. She also took part in various student productions and TV broadcastings as well as made her debut on professional stage. In her home town she was under the guidance of the baritone Georgi Koytchev.

In 1997 she won a scholarship and followed a Tosca course in the European Opera Centre in Manchester under the direction of Kent Nagano, Professor Marta Lantieri, Kostas Paskalis, and Renata Scotto. The same year she won a scholarship at 'Academia d'Arte e Cultura Boris Christoff' in Rome and studied under the Italian mezzo-soprano Gianella Borelli.

Back in Bulgaria she won the special prize for contemporary aria at the International singing competition 'Hristo Brambarov' in Sofia with the aria of Magda Sorel from 'The Consul' by Gian Carlo Menotti and received it from the hands of the great Ghena Dimitrova. In 2001 she attended a master class of the renowned Bulgarian tenor Kaludi Kaludov in Varna.