Biography
The Bulgarian Bass Giorgi Kirof has sung on stages such as MetropolitanOperaNY (Timur/Turandot), Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg(Il Grande Inquisitore /Don Carlo), On Savonlinna Opéra Festival (Varlaam/Boris Godunov), with Münich Philharmonie in Gasteig (Sir Talbot/Maria Stuarda), and many others in Finland, Denmark, USA, Spain, France, Austria, Italy, Germany, Netherlands and Japan.
Giorgi Kirof studied voice at the Academy of Arts, Rome, Italy. On the stage of Sofia National Opera he has sung main bass roles such as Zaccaria/Nabucco, Fiesco/Simon Boccanegra, Timur/Turandot, Don Basilio/Barbiere di Siviglia as well as Osmin/Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail and Fafner/Rheingold.
In season 2021/22 Mr. Kirof made his house debut in NFM Wratislavia Cantans (Shostakovich, Symphony 14), sang in Tampere Hall (Verdi/Requiem) and later same season once again in Tampere Hall (Beethoven 9th ). With his crown role (Zaccaria /Nabucco) he appear in Opera de Massy, Paris. In summer Opera Festival in Braunschweig in their open air production of Aida he could have been heard as Ramfis as well as The King.
Two roles of Mr. Kirof have been televised—Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni) for ARTE TV and Zaccaria (Nabucco) for Spanish TV. Mr. Kirof received an international prize -musician for 2019 from the foundation on the name of world famous bass Nicola Ghiuselev.
Among Singers with whom G.Kirof has collaborated are— Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Matti Salminen, Krassimira Stoyanova, Iréne Theorin and Gregory Kunde. Kirof performed Under the baton of conductors, such as - James Levine, Carlo Rizzi, Ruslan Raichev, Sir Mark Elder and Leif Segerstam.
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