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Krassimira Stoyanova as Anna Bolena: the Bulgarian soprano stars in Donizetti's Anna Bolena with opera orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, December 14.(Hot Ticket )(Interview)

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OPERA NEWS: You've sung with 00NY before, in Les Huguenots and La Battaglia di Legnano in 2001. How does it feel to be returning to New York to sing at Carnegie Hall?

KRASSIMIRA STOYANOVA: Oh, this is the type of audience I live for! And what singer doesn't love performing in this magnificent hall, with its incredible acoustics? You can feel the anticipation of the spectators. They are eager to listen, to discover, to talk about it. It's an audience with knowledge and understanding. It lives with the music. It's fantastic!

ON: Your repertoire doesn't include many belcanto operas. What are your thoughts on treading this new vocal path?

KS: I imagine bel canto singing as a very fine, beautiful, elegant line, with its cadenzas as special accented trademarks. You can't sing it as agitato as you would sing Verdi, whose music is much stronger ...

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