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In August, Sonya Yoncheva returns to one of her most acclaimed roles: Bellini’s Norma. She will appear in two semi-staged performances – on August 22 at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and on August 24 at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, with a distinguished cast including Karine Deshayes (Adalgisa), Stefan Pop (Pollione), Alexander Vinogradov (Oroveso), Marin Yonchev (Flavio), and Kristine Klein (Clotilde).

Sonya first performed the Druid priestess in 2016 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and has since taken the role to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Munich Opera Festival. In this upcoming 2025/26 season, she will also sing Norma at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

More information and tickets for Gstaad and Baden-Baden:
https://www.gstaadmenuhinfestival.ch/de/concert/programm-and-tickets/programm-2025/konzerte/2025/8110
https://www.festspielhaus.de/veranstaltungen/norma/

Sonya Yoncheva returns to Spain this month to perform at the Pollença (August 16) and Santander Festivals (August 18). She appears with the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal of Versailles under the direction of Stefan Plewniak.

The program focuses on the music of Georg Friedrich Händel, with Yoncheva singing some of his most celebrated arias, including “Ombra mai fu” (Serse), “Se pietà di me non senti” (Giulio Cesare), “With darkness deep” (Theodora), “Lascia ch’io pianga” (Rinaldo), and “Tornami a vagheggiar” (Alcina). The Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal of Versailles also performs Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto Grosso No. 4.

More information and tickets:
https://festivalpollenca.com/
https://festivalsantander.com/

[Photo: Edouard Brane]

A regular guest at the Varna Summer Theatre, Sonya Yoncheva returns to the festival this year on two consecutive evenings in her most performed role, Tosca, and her newest, Lisa in The Queen of Spades.

On August 8, she stars as Puccini’s Roman diva alongside Valery Georgiev as Cavaradossi, Plamen Dimitrov as Scarpia, Evgeni Stanimirov as Angelotti, and Geo Chobanov as the Sacristan. Nayden Todorov conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Varna Opera. The production is directed by Srebrena Sokolova, with designs by Kuzman Popov.

The following evening, August 9, Sonya appears as Lisa, fresh from her acclaimed role debut at the Metropolitan Opera a few months ago. She reunites with Arsen Soghomonyan as Hermann, her co-star from the Met run. The production is directed by Vera Nemirova and conducted by Grigor Palikarov.

[Photo by Manfred Baumann]