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From July 19 to August 13, 2021, Sonya Yoncheva appears in concerts and recitals in six different cities all over Europe.

The superstar soprano embarks on her European concert tour on July 19 in a recital featuring her programme Ad una Stella at the Théâtre du Capitole of Toulouse accompanied by Antoine Palloc.

The same programme brings her to the Bayerische Staatsoper’s Munich Opera Festival on July 21, where she appears at the Prinzregententheater accompanied by Malcolm Martineau.

On July 24, Sonya returns to the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, presenting arias from Aida, Il trovatore, Iolanta, Rusalka, La bohème and Madama Butterfly, with Domingo Hindoyan leading the Würth Philharmoniker.

Making her Slovenian debut, Sonya sings for the first time at the Ljubljana Festival on July 27. Sharing the stage with tenor Branko Robinšak, Sonya sings an all-Puccini program with arias and duets from Le Villi, La bohème, Tosca, Manon Lescaut and Madama Butterfly, with Francesco Ivan Ciampa conducting the SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana Orchestra.

On July 30, Sonya and Domingo close this year’s Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier with a Carte blanche concert featuring music chosen by the two artists which is being revealed at a later time. The concert with the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie is recorded by France Musique for a future radio broadcast.

To wrap up the series of concerts, Sonya returns to the Salzburg Festival, where she performs songs by Verdi and Tosti as well as “Tacea la notte placida” from Il trovatore with the Donizetti Opera Ensemble. The concert takes place on August 13 at the Haus für Mozart.

Please go to the Calendar page of this website for links to more information about all of these concerts and recitals.

From July 7 – 16, Sonya Yoncheva will appear as Stephana in Giordano’s Verismo rarity Siberia at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence.

The new production by Roberto Andò is the first staging of the opera at an important international theatre since many years. Led by Gianandrea Noseda, Sonya will sing alongside Giorgi Sturua, George Petean, Caterina Piva, Giorgio Misseri, Caterina Meldolesi, Antonio Garès, Francesco Verna, Emanuele Cordaro, Francesco Samuele Venuti, Joseph Dahdah, Alfonso Zambuto, Adolfo Corrado, Davide Piva and Amin Ahangaran.

Sonya has sung the role of Stephana at the Festival Radio France in Montpellier for the first time in concert and will reprise it after the performances in Florence at the Teatro Real of Madrid in 2022.

On June 18, Sonya Yoncheva takes part in the 10th edition of the grand gala Musiques en fête at the antique theatre of Orange. Opening the 2021 edition of the Chorégies d’Orange, the evening will be broadcast on the French TV channel France 3, on France.tv and on the radio channel France Musique at 21:05h Central European Time on the 18th. There will be an additional telecast on TV5 Monde on June 25 at 21:00h CET.

Besides Sonya, the gala will see performances by Ermonela Jaho, Laurent Gerra, Béatrice Uria Monzon, Nemanja Radulovic, Javier Camarena, Patrizia Ciofi, Imany, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Ildar Abdrazakov, Cyrille Dubois, Marina Viotti, Ambroisine Bré, Florian Laconi, Sara Blanch Freixes, Nicolas Cavallier, Jeanne Gérard, Thomas Bettinger, Lionel Lhote, Fabienne Conrad, Erminie Blondel, Faustine De Monès, Irene Olvera, the children’s choir Pop The Opéra, the Choir of the Opéra de Monte Carlo and the Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône.

Luciano Acocella and Didier Benetti will conduct the Orchestre de Cannes PACA.

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