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Sonya Yoncheva

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Sonya Yoncheva, recipient of the Opus Klassik 2021 award as "Singer of the Year," is a celebrated figure on the most important stages in the world, including the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan, the Bavarian State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, and the Opéra de Paris. Her unforgettable performances are acclaimed by both critics and audiences alike.

In the 2024/25 season, she will sing, among other roles, in a new production of Dido and Aeneas at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly in Barcelona, as Lisa in Pique Dame at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and in Erwartung as well as Dido and Aeneas in Munich. At the Vienna State Opera, she will be heard in a new production of Iolanta, in the title role of Tosca, and as Maddalena in Andrea Chénier. Numerous additional performances are scheduled, including at the Teatro Cultura Artística in São Paulo, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, in Toulouse, Madrid, Paris, at the Salzburg Mozart Week, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the Tonhalle in Zurich.

Major roles she has recently performed include Tosca in Tokyo, Yokohama, Berlin, London, Zurich, and Rome, Norma and Cio-Cio-San in Munich, Maddalena and Fedora at La Scala, Norma, Fedora, and Élisabeth de Valois (in Don Carlos) at the Met, Manon Lescaut in Hamburg, Iolanta in Baden-Baden, Norma in Barcelona, Mimì (in La bohème) in Berlin, as well as numerous concert appearances.

The soprano Sonya Yoncheva, born in 1981, studied piano and voice in her hometown of Plovdiv (Bulgaria). She later obtained her master's degree in singing from the Geneva Conservatory. She is also a graduate of William Christie's Academy Le Jardin des Voix, with early music continuing to be a focus of her repertoire. After several solo albums as an exclusive artist with Sony Classical, Sonya Yoncheva's first solo album, The Courtesan, was released in 2023 under her own label, SY11, where her new album GEORGE will also be released at the end of the year. Her discography also includes CD recordings of Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa) for Deutsche Grammophon and Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea from the Salzburg Festival. Sonya Yoncheva made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2013, where she has performed roles including Marguerite (in Faust), Cio-Cio-San (in Madama Butterfly), Juliette (in Roméo et Juliette), and Tosca.

Performances with Sonya Yoncheva

Saison 2026-27
Number of events listed below: 1
Mon
22 Feb
Vincenzo Bellini
Oper Main Stage

with John Osborn, Roberto Tagliavini, Sonya Yoncheva, Elmina Hasan, Conductor: Lorenzo Passerini

Norma

Cast on Monday 22. February 2027

Pollione

Adalgisa

Elmina Hasan

Musikalische Leitung

Lorenzo Passerini

Inszenierung

Bühne

Valérie Grall

Kostüme

Marie La Rocca

Video

Mehdi Toutain-Lopez

Nicolas Doremus

Choreografie

Magdalena Chowaniec

Licht

Julien Boizard

Regieassistenz

Céline Gaudier
Abo 13

Ticket information

Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.

In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:

08. September 2025Otello
06. Oktober 2025Fin de partie
10. November 2025Kallirhoe (Ballett)
23. März 2026Die verkaufte Braut
15. Juni 2026Così fan tutte
19. Oktober 2026Il barbiere di Siviglia
30. November 2026Luisa Miller
18. Jänner 2027Fidelio
22. Februar 2027Norma
22. März 2027Visionary Dances
Fri
26 Feb
Vincenzo Bellini
Oper Main Stage

with John Osborn, Roberto Tagliavini, Sonya Yoncheva, Elmina Hasan, Conductor: Lorenzo Passerini

Norma

Cast on Friday 26. February 2027

Pollione

Adalgisa

Elmina Hasan

Musikalische Leitung

Lorenzo Passerini

Inszenierung

Bühne

Valérie Grall

Kostüme

Marie La Rocca

Video

Mehdi Toutain-Lopez

Nicolas Doremus

Choreografie

Magdalena Chowaniec

Licht

Julien Boizard

Regieassistenz

Céline Gaudier
Abo 7

Ticket information

Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.

In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:

24. Oktober 2025Die Entführung aus dem Serail
16. Jänner 2026Idomeneo
13. März 2026Don Pasquale
10. April 2026Visionary Dances (Ballett)
12. Juni 2026Animal Farm
04. September 2026Don Carlo
15. Jänner 2027Fidelio
12. Februar 2027Der Rosenkavalier
26. Februar 2027Norma
04. Juni 2027Woolf Works
Sun
28 Feb
Vincenzo Bellini
Oper Main Stage

with John Osborn, Roberto Tagliavini, Sonya Yoncheva, Elmina Hasan, Conductor: Lorenzo Passerini

Norma

Cast on Sunday 28. February 2027

Pollione

Adalgisa

Elmina Hasan

Musikalische Leitung

Lorenzo Passerini

Inszenierung

Bühne

Valérie Grall

Kostüme

Marie La Rocca

Video

Mehdi Toutain-Lopez

Nicolas Doremus

Choreografie

Magdalena Chowaniec

Licht

Julien Boizard

Regieassistenz

Céline Gaudier
Abo 21

Ticket information

Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.

In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:

02. November 2025Pelléas et Mélisande
01. Februar 2026La Traviata
15. Februar 2026Jewels (Ballett)
15. März 2026Le grand macabre
21. Juni 2026Il trittico
11. Oktober 2026Carmen
29. November 2026Onegin
31. Jänner 2027Don Carlos
28. Februar 2027Norma
23. Mai 2027Lulu
Wed
03 Mar
Vincenzo Bellini
Oper Main Stage

with John Osborn, Roberto Tagliavini, Sonya Yoncheva, Elmina Hasan, Conductor: Lorenzo Passerini

Norma

Cast on Wednesday 3. March 2027

Pollione

Adalgisa

Elmina Hasan

Musikalische Leitung

Lorenzo Passerini

Inszenierung

Bühne

Valérie Grall

Kostüme

Marie La Rocca

Video

Mehdi Toutain-Lopez

Nicolas Doremus

Choreografie

Magdalena Chowaniec

Licht

Julien Boizard

Regieassistenz

Céline Gaudier

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