• A Masked Ball

Dramatic soprano Evelina Dobračeva began her musical career studying accordion, conducting and teaching before relocating to Germany, where she began singing under the tuition of Professor Norma Sharp, Snezana Brzakovic and Professor Julia Varady at the Hanns Eisler Music College Berlin. She claimed the highest level of scholarship from the German Republic in both 2004 and 2006 and was a prize winner at the Würzburg Mozart Competition in 2006.

Operatic roles include Micaëla Carmen, Donna Anna Don Giovanni and Violetta La traviata with Cologne Opera and the Deutsche Staatsoper on tour to Japan, Desdemona Otello with Centro Cultural de Belém, Fiordiligi Così fan tutte at the Verbier Festival and Toulon Opera, Emma Khovanshina with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Tatiana Eugene Onegin at the Theater St Gallen, Lisa Queen of Spades at the Bolshoi Theatre, Wozzeck with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tosca at the Cincinnati Opera and Tulsa Opera and Semyon Kotko at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

In concert she has sung Mahler 8 and Britten’s War Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Shostakovich’s Symphony No.14 with the City of London Sinfonia, Verdi’s Requiem with the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Fabio Luisi, Britten’s War Requiem with the BBC Philharmonic, Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, gala concerts with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Missa Solemnis with the Capella Cracoviensis, Stravinsky’s Four Russian Songs at De Doelen Hall with the Storioni Trio and her Wigmore Hall debut, performing a programme of Rachmaninov Songs, with the same repertoire released on Delphian records, accompanied by Iain Burnside.

An established recording artist, Evelina features on Dargomizhsky’s Rusalka recorded with the West Deutsche Rundfunk Orchester and Michail Jurowski and Britten’s War Requiem recorded with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jaap van Zweden. Recently Evelina featured on the world premiere recording of Rubenstein’s Moses under Maestro Michail Jurowski.

Recent highlights include a magnificent performance as Olga in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Maid of Pskov at Grange Park Opera, Soprano Soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and a concert performance of Götterdämmerung, the conclusion to Vladimir Jurowski’s acclaimed run of the Wagner’s Ring Cycle with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the upcoming season, Evelina will feature in Strauss’s Vier Lezte Lieder with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and will also appear as the soprano soloist in Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.