Orlin Anastassov

Bass

Born in 1976 in Ruse, Bulgaria, Orlin Anastassov graduated in 1997 from the National School of Arts “Professor Veselin Stoyanov” in Ruse (class of Georgi Deliganev).

He made his operatic debut at the age of twenty, singing the King of Egypt in Aida at the State Opera Ruse. After winning the prestigious Operalia competition (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1999), founded by Plácido Domingo, Orlin Anastassov made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala as Don Basilio in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, becoming the youngest bass ever to debut at La Scala.
Since then he has performed on the world’s leading stages, among them the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), the Metropolitan Opera, the Opéra national de Paris, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Bayerische Staatsoper. His repertoire includes more than fifty roles in Italian, French and Russian.
Anastassov has appeared alongside renowned artists such as Ghena Dimitrova, Plácido Domingo, Fiorenza Cossotto, Renato Bruson, Leo Nucci and Mirella Freni, and performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester to name but a few. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Lorin Maazel, Daniel Oren, Georges Prêtre, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov and Mariss Jansons, and with many directors, among them Franco Zeffirelli, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Andrei Konchalovsky, Terry Gilliam, Dario Argento, David McVicar and Hugo de Ana.

Since 2018 Orlin Anastassov has also been active as an opera director. His productions include Lucia di Lammermoor, Ernani and Tosca at the State Opera Ruse; Noye’s Fludde and Tosca at the Teatro comunale Francesco Cilea di Reggio Calabria; La bohème at the Armenian National Opera in Yerevan; The Queen of Spades at the Bolshoi Theatre named after Alisher Navoi in Tashkent; Eugene Onegin in La Coruña (Spain), Piacenza and Modena (Italy); and Attila at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb and the Slovene National Theatre Maribor.

Orlin Anastassov is a GRAMMY Award winner and recipient of Bulgaria’s Golden Feather award, presented at the European Music Festival.
Information for June 2025