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ANASTASSOV Orlin Anastassov was born in Russe, Bulgaria in 1976. Both of his parents were opera singers. He began his vocal study at a very early age with Georgi Deliganev and at age 20 made his operatic debut in Russe as the King in Aida. Over the next few years he began to develop his repertoire which soon included roles such as Ramfis in Aida (Wiesbaden), Ferrando in Il trovatore (Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duesseldorf) and Phillip II in Don Carlo (Sofia). In April 1999 Anastassov won the First Prize in the Operalia Competition and in June of the same year made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia under Riccardo Chailly. This was followed in 2000 with other important debuts; in Aida at the Vienna State Opera, Arena di Verona ,and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in concert performances of Verdi’s La battaglia di Legnano. He soon was heard in important theatres throughout Europe. He has appeared in the title role of Verdi’s Attila, as Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra and as Mephistopheles in Faust at Covent Garden, as Timur in Turandot and as Ramfis in Aida at the Teatro alla Scala. His performances in the great Verdi roles for Bass have also included Phillip II at the Grand Théâtre de Geneve and at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Silva in Ernani in Las Palmas, Banquo in Macbeth at the Teatro Regio in Parma, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra in Valencia and Cagliari, Zaccaria in Nabucco at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and at the Arena di Verona, Attila at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and Procida in I vespri siciliani in Palermo, Ravenna, Genova, Mantova, Ferrara and Busseto. He made his San Francisco Opera debut as Padre Guardiano in La forza del destino, also appearing in this role at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. Anastasstov has also sung Ramfis. in Aida at the Choregies D’Orange, Theatre Royale de La Monnaie in Brussels, Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as in Macerata and Baden-Baden. In the 2010/11 season he performed the role of Conte Walter in Luisa Miller at the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Opera National de Paris. He appeared at Santa Cecilia to perform in Verdi’s Requiem and will perform at Teatro di San Carlo in the role of Jean Procida in Les Vepres Sicilennes. Anastassov also will sing the principal role in the new production of Attila at Teatro alla Scala.
He sang his first performances of the title role in Boris Godunov at L’Opera de Monte Carlo where he was also heard in Faust, the opera which also marked his debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Among his other past projects were Franco Alfano’s rarely performed Sakuntala at the Teatro Dell’Opera di Roma, Samson et Dalila at the Salzburg Festival under Valery Gergiev, La Gioconda at the Teatro Real in Madrid, La bohème and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Staatsoper Berlin. He made his North American operatic debut in La bohème at the Washington Opera. Anastassov has participated in concert performances of Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, L’Enfance du Christ, Romeo et Juliette and Les Troyens with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis. He appears frequently in concert and has sung Verdi’s Requiem with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel, with the London Symphony under Sir Colin Davis, in Rome under Gian Luigi Gelmetti, in Monte Carlo under Georges Prêtre as well as in Paris, Milan, Toulouse, Amsterdam, Spoleto, Leipzig, and Brescia under Riccardo Chailly. He has also sung Berlioz’s Romeo et Juliette at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Sao Carlos in Lisbon.
In September of 2008 Orlin Anastassov made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in La Gioconda. Also during the 2008/09 season he returned to Valencia as Count Walter in Luisa Miller, to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as Zaccaria in Nabucco, and to the Theatre du Capitole in Faust. Anastassov began the 2009/10 season with a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia as well as Ramfis in Aida and then appeared in Salerno as Zaccaria in Nabucco. In the spring he made his role debut in the title role of Mefistofele for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and then goes on to bow at the Teatro Regio di Torino as Il conte di Walter in Luisa Miller.
He performed at Stresa Festival in 2000.