Deyan Vatchkov

Deyan Vatchkov (; born April 8, 1979) is a Bulgarian bass opera singer. He has appeared at opera houses and festivals in Europe, North America and Asia, including Teatro alla Scala, the Arena di Verona, Teatro di San Carlo, La Fenice, Teatro Real, Seattle Opera, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Oper Frankfurt, Opéra de Lausanne, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and Sofia Opera and Ballet.

Early life and education Vatchkov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied at the National Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" in Sofia with Konstantin Karapetrov and Nedialko Nedialkov.

His repertoire includes roles in operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Georges Bizet and Hector Berlioz. Among the roles listed in institutional biographies are Oberto in Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Colline in La bohème, Escamillo in Carmen, Don Giovanni and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Don Pasquale in Don Pasquale, Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore, Oroveso in Norma, Giorgio in I puritani, Attila in Attila, Zaccaria in Nabucco, Filippo II in Don Carlos, Ramfis and the King in Aida, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Ferrando in Il trovatore, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Timur in Turandot and Angelotti in Tosca. At the Varna Opera he has appeared in productions such as Verdi's Macbeth, Puccini's Turandot and Bizet's Carmen.

Conductors Vatchkov has worked with conductors including Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Antonio Pappano, Nicola Luisotti, Daniel Oren, Roberto Abbado, Donato Renzetti, Daniele Gatti, Daniele Callegari, Antonello Allemandi, Gary Bertini, Carlo Franci, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Marcello Viotti, Giuliano Carella, Semyon Bychkov, Yuri Temirkanov, Nayden Todorov, Julian Kovatchev, Patrick Fournillier and Antonino Fogliani.