Deyan Vatchkov

Born in Sofia, he carried out his studies in his city under the guidance of Konstantin Karapetrov. He won the Iris Idami Corradetti Competition in Padua, as well as the Verdi Prize at the Belvedere Competion in Vienna. In 2001, at the age of twenty-one, he was admitted to the Academy of La Scala, where he studied with Leyla Gencer, Luciana Serra, Luigi Alva and Teresa Berganza. During the first year he sang with Plácido Domingo e Olga Borodina in Samson et Dalila. In a few years he debuted many roles of the operatic repertoire, among which are particularly interesting Oberto (Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Escamillo (Carmen) and Colline (La Bohéme), that he performed in the most important opera houses in Italy and