Foundation

The Ghena Dimitrova Foundation was established in 2018.

Goals and objectives

1. Preserving the memory of Ghena Dimitrova and promoting her work and personality.
2. Supporting young opera singers and accompanists.
3. Digitizing Ghena Dimitrova’s archives and creating a website.
4. Creation of a municipal specialized collection in the singer’s native house.
5. Setting up a contest and award named after Ghena Dimitrova.
6. Promotion of the operatic art form.

Activities

2019 – The Foundation Award for Young Talents was presented to Viktoria Pigova, within the Third GHENA DIMITROVA International Competition for Young Opera Singers in Pleven.
2019 – An architectural project to give new life to the singer’s native house was designed and donated to the municipality of Pleven, the owner of the house.
2021 – The Foundation Award for Young Talents was presented to Maria Slavova, within the Fourth GHENA DIMITROVA International Competition for Young Opera Singers in Pleven.
2022 – The foundation provided financial support to conduct an opera singing masterclass with the teacher Katia Borissova from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria. The masterclass was run jointly with Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music and was intended for the Academy students. The final concert of the participants was filmed for free and is available for them to use when applying for positions, roles and auditions.

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