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The Bulgariam mezzo-soprano, Olga Mihailova-Dinova [Mihaylova-Dinova; Michaylova-Dinova; Dinova], graduated from the National Academy of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1992, after studying opera singing in the class of Professor Sima Ivanova.
Olga Mihailova-Dinova made her debut at the Sofia National Opera in 1992, as Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Since then she has successfully played the lead roles in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro, Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algieri, Georges Bizet's Carmen, Bellini’s Norma, Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, and Verdi’s Il trovatore and Don Carlos. She has also appeared in operettas and musicals, including Johann Strauss’s Der Zigeunerbaron and Die Fledermaus, Imre Kálmán’s Die Bajadere, Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Miss Saigon, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats and Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
Olga Mihailova-Dinova has given a number of thematic chamber concerts with music by French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Bulgarian composers, as well as contemporary classical and popular music. She has performed the mezzo-soprano solos in a number of cantata-oratorio works, such as J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) and Johannes-Passion (BWV 245), George Frideric Handel's Messiah and W.A. Mozart's Requiem.
Olga Mihailova-Dinova has made numerous recordings for the Bulgarian National Radio and Bulgarian National Television. In 2009 she released a solo CD of songs by Todor Popov. |
