Popzlateva Bio

Selected Faculty Biographies

MARIANA POPZLATEVA

(Voice)

MARIANA POPZLATEVA earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Voice Performance in 1983 from the State Academia of Music in Sophia, Bulgaria, and a Master’s degree in Music and Arts from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2003. She is an accomplished voice teacher whose extensive repertoire includes opera, operetta, and musicals: My Fair Lady; Maria, West Side Story; Cats; Christine, The Phantom of the Opera; Miserables; Konegonda, Burnstein's Candide; and Webber. Suppe, “ Die Schone Galatee” ; Lopez “Andalusia”; Schutz “Fray Luna”; Kalman “ Queen of the Chardash.”

Ms. Popzlateva has performed as a soloist throughout Europe and the United States, as well as in China and the Philippines. Her artistic career began when she joined The State Musical Theatre, Stephan Makedonski, with which she performed thirty roles and a variety of characters. These included vocal heroic, vocal soubrette, characteristic, and children's roles, both in dramatic and musical genres. In 1997, she joined Theater “ Maestro Grorgi Atanasov” Pazardjik as a soloist–artist where her career included shows and concerts in Bulgaria abroad and more than 150 concerts in Spain as a soloist of the Pazardjik Philarmony. Since 1997, she has performed opera roles and individual opera concerts, along with recitals in Tokyo, Miami, Moscow, Manila, Hong Kong, Germany, and Spain. Ms. Popzlateva’s teachers have included Maestro Stefano Aljieri of Juilliard School and La Scala di Milano, Margarita Lilova of State Opera Vienna, Alexandrina Milcheva, international Bulgarian soprano, and Kimberly Davis, Ph.D., of the University of Southern Mississippi.

Ms. Popzlateva is a member of the AGMA.