Raina kabaivanska biography

Raina Kabaivanska is one of the most distinguished opera artists of our time. Her 1961 debut in Milan’s La Scala paved the way for a brilliant career that has put her on the stage of all major opera theatres and concert halls worldwide – Covent Garden in London, the Paris Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall in New York, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Staatsoper in Hamburg, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Sofia Opera, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Tokyo Opera, the Salzburg Festival and many others.

Ms. Kabaivanska has been especially active in Italy where she has performed in all major, as well as less prominent opera theatres – La Scala, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Arena di Verona, the theatres in Turin, Genoa, Parma, Bologna, Modena, and the Rome Opera House.

She has partnered with a few generations of great tenors on stage - Franco Corelli, Mario del Monaco, Jon Wickers, Carlo Ber