Sofia Soloviy (lat. Sofia Soloviy, born in Lviv, Lviv region, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian opera and chamber singer - soprano. Winner of fourteen international vocal competitions. She performed on the stages of opera houses in Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Belgium, and America. He likes the stage of Madrid and his native Lviv the most. Lives in Italy.
Biography
Sofiya Solovya was born in the city of Lviv in a musical family, in which her grandfather (bass) and father (bass–baritone) sang in the State Honored Choir Chapel of Ukraine "Trembita", and her mother (pianist) worked there as a concertmaster. Therefore, from a young age, Sofia was often taken with her to rehearsals, and at the age of four, her mother gave her to the newly opened experimental group at the music school on Lychakivska Street. Many children from this group later studied at the Lviv Secondary Specialized Music School named after Solomiya Krushelnytska, where Sofia learned to play the piano. She also sang in the school choir, with which she went on tour to the Baltic States.
In Ukraine, she graduated from the music-theoretical faculty of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv Academy of Music and defended her diploma in musicology (Prof. Lyubov Kiyanovska). However, while studying at the music academy, she continued to sing and in the last courses began to study vocals under the guidance of Miroslava Zhyshkovych. Her passion for singing grew, and after graduating from the music academy, Sofia again entered the academy for the first year of the vocal faculty, already as a first-year vocalist (prof. Volodymyra Chaika's class). After five years of study, she was accepted to graduate school (Prof. Ihor Kushpler).
In 2000, Sofia Solovyi moved to Italy, where she began attending the Academy of Opera Art in the city of Osimo. She later took numerous vocal courses in Italy and abroad, with Gustav Kuhn, William Matteuzzi, Alberto Zedda and Gianluigi Gelmetti. Since 2005, she studied at the Orazio Vecchi Music Institute in Modena in the class of Raina Kabaivanska. Every year, after listening to 50 candidates from all continents, Raina Kabaivanska chooses 12 talented young singers and starts working with them in master classes.
In May 2014, Sofia Solovyi sang the part of Nedda in Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "The Clowns" directed by Marco Bellocchio, on the stage of the Petrudzelli Theater in Bari. The conductors were Paolo Carignani and Giuseppe La Malfa, the role of Canio was performed by the People's Artist of Azerbaijan, the dramatic tenor was Yusif Eyvazov.
In 2014, at the gala concert on the occasion of Raina Kabaivanska's 80th birthday, her student Sofia Solovay "carved" the most difficult and most dramatic aria of Anne Boleyn from Gaetano Donizetti's opera of the same name in "Hall 1" of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia.
After the second year of studying in Italy on the advice of the "high tenor" William Matteuzzi, Sofia took part in the Gioacchino Rossini Festival in the resort town of Bad Wildbad (Germany), where she performed in two Rossini operas - "Journey to Reims" and "Count Ori". This was Sofia's first job in Germany. Then there was a solo part in Meyerbeer's cantata "Theolinda's Love" at the "Valle d'Itria" festival in the Italian city of Martina-Franzi, the opera "Salvator Rosa" by Antonio Gómez (a contemporary of Verdi), "Idomeneus" by Mozart in the edition of Richard Strauss (in German, rather than Italian), Salome by Richard Strauss (in French rather than German).
Laureate of international vocal competitions: Viotti International Competition in Vercelli, "Rosetum" in Milan, "Iris Adami Coradetti" in Padua, "Ottavio Dziino" in Rome, "Ferruccio Tagliavini" in Deutschlandsburg and others.
Discography
2007 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Idomeneo" (opera, edited by Richard Strauss) / (Mozart (Rev. Strauss, R.): Idomeneo (Complete))
2007 - Gioachino Rossini: "Count Ory" (opera) / (Rossini: Le Comte Ory)
2008 - Richard Strauss: "Salome" (opera, French version) / (Strauss, R.: Salome - French Version, Opera)
2019 - Gaetano Donizetti: "Heroines" - Collector's Box (13-DVD) / (Donizetti: Heroines - The Collector's Box-Set)
