Stefanna Kybalova

Stefanna Kybalova
Italian soprano of Chech and Bulgarian origin, in 2011 won the FIRST PRIZE ABSOLUTE to the prestigious competition for Verdi’s Voices in Busseto (Parma - Italy), chaired by José Carreras.

In her biography, this was the latest of the eight awards she won since the beginning of his period of study, conducted at the Conservatory Verdi in Milan, Italy, where she graduated with honors. In 2003 (at age 22) she won also the 54th edition of As.Li.Co.,and she debut role of Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo, and Amore in Orfeo from Gluck. She began her career prudently with the roles of the light lyric repertoire, as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, singing at the Festival of Cheliabinsk in Russia, and in Busseto with Toscanini’s Foundation, Nannetta in Falstaff, and even with some roles secondary but larger contexts such as Frasquita in Carmen at the Arena of Verona in the seasons 2008 and 2009 conducted by Mr. Oren. Also directed by Mr. Oren, she was Garsenda in Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini at the Teatro Verdi of Salerno and after she debut the most hard role in the French repertoire, Mirelle from Gounod in the Miscolc’s Hungarian Festival. She worked with great conductors and directors like Seji Osawa, Marcello Rota, Daniel Oren, Roberto Abbado, James Meena and also Zeffirelli, Carsen, Giacchieri, Proietti, Daniele Abbado, Krief. She was recently in Seoul - Korea and she debut Mimi’ in La Boheme at the SETEC Art Center, and she was guest at LIGURIA NEW FESTVAL in Don Giovanni, singing the role of Donna Elvira, and Micaela in Carmen and also in two production of La Traviata. She sang Tosca in Teatro Alfieri in Asti and in Smetana Hall Praha, conducted by Marcello Rota where she had a great personal success. Her last performance in Violetta in La Traviata is greeted with a standing ovation at the Teatro Opera and Ballet in Sofia, and in 2014 at the Finnish National Opera she was Mimì in a new production of Puccini’s La Bohème where she literally left the audience in tears from her emotional performance. In 2015 her debut in Lady Macbeth’s Verdi in Bologna with Maestro Roberto Abbado, the critics define her voice as "torrential" capable of dramatic nuances and bel canto, at the service of a character who knows how to creep in with poignant color and intemerate treble. This debut together with her debut in Odabella in Verdi's Attila and Luisa Miller in Bologna and at the Verdi's Theatre in Trieste (Italy) give her the chance to get more noticed on the international scene and she was invited as a Guest in the role of Tosca at the Mainz Opera House in Germany and as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème at the North Carolina Opera House, and in both Theatres she received excellent success with audiences and critics.