ALEXANDRINA PENDATCHANSKA
Alexandrina Pendatchanska was born in Sofia where she graduated from the National School of Music with piano and singing. Her vocal teacher was her mother – the soprano Valerie Popova. Very soon she has won the «Antonin Dvorak» Singing Competition, the International Singing Competition in Bilbao and the UNISA singing competition in Pretoria.
Since 1989 she has performed at the major international opera houses as Washinton Opera, Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro dell' Opera di Roma, the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, the Teatro Regio di Torino, the Teatro Verdi Trieste, the Monte Carlo Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele, the Washington Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Santa Fe Opera and the Rossini Festival in Pesaro.
In the seasons 1997-2001 Alexandrina Pendatchanska appeared as Elisabetta in ROBERTO DEVEREUX (Torino, Naples), Ermione (Santa Fe), Adina (Pesaro), LA STRANIERA (Catania), Suor Angelica (Lucca), Verdi’s Luisa Miller and Lucrezia Contarini of I DUE FOSCARI (Naples), VIAGGIO A REIMS (Bruxelles). Her Mozart repertoire includes Donna Anna (Lausanne, Houston, Lisbon, New York, Brussels, Prague), Donna Elvira (Washington, Lyon), Aspasia (Torino) and Vitellia (Santa Fe).
Under the highlights of the past seasons : her debut in Paris Theatre des Champs-Elysées where she was Stonatrilla in L’OPERA SERIA with Concerto Köln conducted by René Jacobs, Rossini’s ERMIONE in New York, GIULIO CESARE at the Innsbrucker Festwochen, Vivaldi’s LA FIDA NINFA with Ensemble Matheus in Festival d’Ambronay, Donna Anna in Toulouse, Semiramide and Donna Elvira in Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Baden–Baden and LUISA MILLER at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, new production TURCO IN ITALIA at the Bavarian State Opera, DONNA DEL LAGO in New York, CLEMENZA DI TITO in Bari, Lyon and at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Recent projects: PETITE MESSE SOLENELLE under Riccardo Chailly in Leipzig and London, Elettra/IDOMENEO under René Jacobs and in a new production at Theatre de La Monnaie Brussels, a new production of Haydn´s ORLANDO PALADINO at the Staatsoper in Berlin and at Festival of Old Music in Innsbruck. Further engagements include a new production of AGRIPPINA at the Staatsoper Berlin the debut as Elisabetta in MARIA STUARDA at the Canadian Oper in Toronto and as Arminda in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien.
Future projects include several important debuts as the Nedda/PAGLIACCI at the Staatsoper Vienna, Helene/LES VEPRES SICILIENNES at the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, Circe/TOLOMEO at the Theater an der Wien and Donna Elvira/DON GIOVANNI at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. In the next season she will make an important debut in the title role of SALOME by Richard Strauss at the Theater St. Gallen in a new production of Vincent Boussard.
In the concert repertoire she has performed Verdi’s MESSA DA REQUIEM, Rossini’s STABAT MATER, Honnegger’s LE ROI DAVID with orchestras as The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, L’Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai, Philadelphia Orchestra, L’ Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Solisti Veneti, Russian National Orchestra, The Philharmonic Orchestra of ORF, Wiener Symphoniker, L’Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She has worked with conductors as Myun-Wyun Chung, Charles Dutoit, Eliahu Inbal, Jesus Lopos-Cobos, Nello Santi, Bruno Bartoletti, Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Daniel Oren, Evelino Pido’, Vladimir Spivakov, René Jacobs.
Miss Pendatchanska’s discography enlist Glinka’s A LIFE FOR THE TZAR (Antonida) for Sony, Rachmaninov’s THE BELLS for Decca, Donizetti’s PARISINA D’ESTE for Dynamics, as well as a recital of operatic arias for Capriccio, Sartorio’s GIULIO CESARE for ORF, Mozart’s LA CLEMENZA DI TITO with René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi and the dramatic coloratura album GENUINE. Her performance as Elisabetta in ROBERTO DEVEREUX and Lucrezia Contarini in I DUE FOSCARI are available on DVD. She is also Donna Elvira of DON GIOVANNI and Elettra/IDOMENEO in the recordings conducted by René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi.
