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On January 15, 2026, Sonya Yoncheva will sing her 50th performance of Tosca at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s season premiere of Puccini’s masterwork. The series of six performances, conducted by Giuseppe Mentuccia, will take place on January 15, 17, 21, 24, 28 and 30, all beginning at 7:30 pm, with Vittorio Grigolo (Cavaradossi), Christopher Maltman (Scarpia), Carles Pachon (Angelotti), Hanseong Yun (Mesner), Florian Hoffmann (Spoletta), Irakli Pkhaladze (Sciarrone) and Manuel Winckhler (Kerkermeister) completing the cast.

Sonya Yoncheva has starred as the Roman Diva around the world. Following her role debut during the 2017/18 season in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera, she has sung the part at the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Zurich Opera House, the Royal Opera House, London, the Arena di Verona, and the Caracalla Festival in Rome, as well as in Japan with the Rome Opera House in Tokyo and Yokohama. In her native Bulgaria, she has appeared as Tosca in Varna and Plovdiv.

This marks her third run of Tosca in Alvis Hermanis’s staging at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, following previous appearances in 2019 and 2024.

On January 7, Sonya Yoncheva appears at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées for a concert with the Sofia Philharmonic under the baton of Nayden Todorov.

The programme brings together operatic highlights and orchestral interludes, ranging from Puccini’s early Le Villi and later masterpieces such as La Bohème and Manon Lescaut, to Massenet’s Hérodiade and Manon, alongside Dvořák’s “Song to the Moon” from Rusalka and celebrated pages from Bizet’s Carmen. Bulgarian repertoire also features prominently, with works by Petko Staynov and Parashkev Hadjiev, underscoring the artistic identity shared by soloist, conductor and orchestra.

This concert continues Sonya Yoncheva’s close collaboration with Nayden Todorov and the Sofia Philharmonic, with whom she has appeared in numerous concerts over recent seasons.

More information and tickets on https://www.theatrechampselysees.fr/saison-2025-2026/recital-chant/sonya-yoncheva-2

[Photo by Manfred Baumann]

Sonya Yoncheva returns to the Metropolitan Opera, adding a new role to her extensive Met repertoire: Maddalena de Coigny in Andrea Chénier. The season premiere of Nicolas Joël’s production takes place on November 24, with further performances on November 28 and December 3, 6, 9, and 13. The December 13 performance at 1 p.m. local time will be transmitted Live in HD to cinemas around the world.

She performs under the baton of Daniele Rustioni and shares the stage with Piotr Beczała in the title role, Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, Siphokazi Molteno as La Bersi, Olesya Petrova as Madelon, Brenton Ryan as Incredibile, Guriy Gurev as Roucher, and Maurizio Muraro as Mathieu.

Maddalena marks Sonya’s 12th role at the Met and her second Giordano heroine at the house, following her much-lauded interpretation of Fedora in the 2022/23 season, also with Piotr Beczała in the principal tenor role.

More information and tickets: https://www.metopera.org/season/2025-26-season/andrea-chenier/