"Tenor of grand tone and expressiveness" Coventry Telegraph.
At age 11, Valentino won a scholarship at The Sofia State School of Fine Art. After graduating continued studies at The Sofia State Academy of Fine Arts specializing in classical realism/painting, etching and sculpture. Concurrently studied singing in The Vocal Faculty of The Sofia State Conservatory of Music in the class of Prof. Hristo Brambarov. Continued music in London, England. Privately studied with Renata Tebaldi.
Music Program Assistant for the BBC World Service from 1977 until 1984.
Sings regularly in Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Albert Hall,
Coventry Cathedral
Repertoire: Bizet/Carmen/Don Jose,
Boito/Mefisofele/Faust, Cilea/Adriana Lecouvreur/Maurizio,
Donizetti/Lucia di Lammermoor/Edgardo, Giordano/Andrea Chenier/Chenier,
Gounod/Faust/Faust, Massenet/Werther/Werther, Puccini/Tosca/Cavaradossi,
Puccini/La Boheme/Rodolfo, Puccini/Manon Lescaut/Des Grieux,
Tchaikovsky/The Queen of Spades/Herman, Tchaikovsky/Eugene Onegin/Lensky,
Verdi/La Traviata/Alfredo, Verdi/Luisa Miller/Rodolfo, Verdi/Don Carlos/Don Carlos,
Verdi/Rigoletto/Duca, Verdi/Il Trovatore/Manrico,
Verdi/Aida/Radames, Verdi/Requiem/Tenor Solo.
Oratorio:
Bach St Matthew Passion Evangelist,
Evangelist in Bach's St John Passion,
Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ,
Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts,
Beethoven/Ninth Symphony,
Mendelssohn's Elijah,
Mozart's C minor Mass,
Performed in:
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Coventry Cathedral, Portsmouth Guildhall, Queen's Hall Harrogate, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall,
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Croydon Fairfield Hall,
St James Piccadilly, Wigmore Hall,
Coventry Town Hall,
Ealing Town Hall, St. Johns Wood Square,
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