Sonya Yoncheva

Superstar soprano Sonya Yoncheva has been heralded as one of the most acclaimed and exciting performers of her generation.

After studying piano and voice in her hometown Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with Nelly Koitcheva, she obtained her master’s degree in voice in Geneva, studying with Danielle Borst. Sonya is an alumna of William Christie’s Le Jardin des Voix.

Career highlights include new productions of Tosca and Otello at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, where she also performed the title roles of Luisa Miller, La traviata and Iolanta, Mimì in La bohème and Gilda in Rigoletto, the title parts of Norma (new production) and La traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Micaëla in Carmen, Mimì and Musetta in La bohème at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden, London), Il pirata (new staging) and Mimì (La bohème) at Teatro alla Scala, L’incoronazione di Poppea (new production) at the Salzburg Festival, new stagings of Médée and La traviata at the Berlin State Opera, and of Don Carlos, La bohème and Iolanta at the Paris Opéra, where she also appeared in La traviata and Lucia di Lammermoor.

She recently sang Tosca at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, and at the Berlin State Opera, La traviata at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Médée at the Berlin State Opera, Mimì (La bohème) at Covent Garden, Il pirata at the Teatro Real Madrid, Otello in Baden-Baden and Berlin, Iolanta and Otello at the MET. She participated in the 2020/21 season opening gala of the Teatro alla Scala, in a Christmas concert hosted by the German President and broadcast on German television, in the Rolex Perpetual Music Gala in Berlin, in the 2020 Concert de Paris as well as in galas and solo concerts in Salzburg, Madrid, Monte-Carlo, Budapest, Mexico City, Verona and Antwerp.

Sonya Yoncheva records exclusively for Sony Classical and is a global ambassador for Rolex.