OLGA BOLGARI

Short Biography

Olga Bolgari enjoyed a wide-ranging musical education in Moldavia and in Vienna. She studied Choral Conducting and Musicology at the State Music Academy Gavriil Musicescu, Musicology at the University of Vienna, Opera and Operetta at the Vienna Conservatory and Vocal Education at the University of Music Vienna. Her teachers include Julia Bauer Huppmann, Kurt Widmer, Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli and others.

Since 1997 she has worked internationally as a concert and opera singer. She performed oratorios, concert arias, Lieder (including Wienerlieder), and baroque programmes with various ensembles in Italy, Argentina, Mexico, USA, France, Portugal, Cyprus, Germany, Latvia and Austria. She was engaged at the Neue Oper Wien and also performed as Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Arsena (The Gypsy Baron), Fire and Nightingale (L'Enfant et les Sortilèges). From 2009 to 2011 she was engaged at the Municipal Theatre of Baden. She will shortly have her debut with the newly founded ensemble SOPRANARIA, together with the sopranos Hege Gustava Tjønn and Veronika Groiss.