JONUTS PASKU for the first time in Stara Zagora

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The first soloist of the National Opera in Bucharest Ionuc Pascu for the first time in Stara Zagora in the role of Count Di Luna, Daniel Damyanov enters the role of Manrico at the premiere of the opera "Il Trovatore" by Verdi on 22 May

Due to the illness of Stara Zagora Opera soloists Boris Taskov and Ivan Kabamitov, in the roles of Manrico and Count Di Luna, the Stara Zagora audience will have the opportunity to applaud tenor Daniel Damyanov and Romanian baritone Ionac Pascu.
The two performers arrive late tonight to replace their colleagues at the premiere of the opera "Il trovatore" on May 22 at 19.00 on the stage of the Stara Zagora Opera. Elena Barumova will play the role of Leonora, Daniela Dyakova will play the role of Azucena, Alexander Marulev - Ferrando. Also taking part are the soloists Emilia Djurova, Ivaylo Yovchev, Evgeni Surmiyevich, Sasho Stoykov and others, the choir and orchestra of the State Opera-Stara Zagora. Conductor Martin Panteleev. Directed by Georgi Dinev. Conductor of the choir Mladen Stanev. Stage adaptation by Dimo Kostadinov. In three of the battle scenes in the performance are joined by representatives of the Pre-Bulgarian School of Survival "Baga-Tur".

The tenor DANIEL DAMIANOV graduated in Orthodox Theology at the University of St. He studied opera singing as a private student, worked as a soloist of the Ruse Opera, the Sofia Opera, the Burgas Opera, and was a guest of all Bulgarian opera houses. His repertoire includes the parts of: Cavaradossi in Tosca, Calaf in Turandot, De Greio in Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Don Alvaro in The Power of Fate, The Duke in Rigoletto, Radames in Aida, Macduff in Macbeth, Foresto in Attila, Manrico in Verdi's Il Trovatore, Don José in Bizet's Carmen, Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, etc.

The baritone Ionuc Pascu is the first soloist of the National Opera in Bucharest. He graduated from the University of Music in Bucharest in 2001 and at the age of 23 began his artistic career at the Constanta Opera with successful debuts in the title baritone roles of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Puccini's La bohème (Marcel). He quickly amassed a solid operatic repertoire with a series of debuts in various roles from the operas Il Trovatore (Le nozze di Luna), Le nozze di Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Madame Butterfly (Chiapless), "The Village Honour (Alfio), Carmen (Escamillo), The Magic Flute (Papageno), as well as in the operettas The Bat (Dr. Falke, Eisenstein) and The Land of Smiles (Gustl). The singer's repertoire also includes the roles of Georges Germont from La Traviata, Simone Bocanegra, Nabucco, Rigoletto from Verdi's operas of the same name, Enrico Ashton from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Scarpia from Puccini's Tosca, Eugene Onegin from Tchaikovsky's opera of the same name and others.
He has toured in the Netherlands, Germany, Korea, Italy, Macedonia, Hungary, Albania, Israel and the USA. In the last few seasons, he has been a regular guest soloist at the Israel National Opera in Tel Aviv, where he has performed the roles of Georges Germont, Enrico Ashton, Nabucco, Renato, Marcel and Shonar, among others.
Since October 2005 Ionuc Pascu has been soloist and leading baritone of the National Opera of Bucharest. Parallel to his active singing career, he successfully completed his conducting studies at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan.
In the 2007-2008 season he was a scholarship recipient of the Central & Eastern Europe Musiktheater Foundation, sponsored by the Deutsche Bank Foundation and the German Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.