NIKOLA KUTIN

News публикувана на: 26.10.2015

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At the Saturday matinee "The Stars of the Stara Zagora Opera" on 31 October at 11 a.m. we present
NIKOLA KUTIN - bass, long-time soloist

"I was born in Belitsa, Blagoevgrad region, in a poor working-class family. In 1951 I entered the vocational technical school of textiles - Sofia. My teacher Maria Zlatanova (originally from Stara Zagora) was the first to start singing for me. It turned out that I had a voice for singing. My second teacher was the artistic self-activity. The month of April 1969 found me already as a school inspector in the District People's Council - Pazardzhik. At the Children's Book Week I was asked to sing something in honor of the distinguished guest, the writer Sergei Mikhalkov. I sang Dubinushka. When they told the guest what I was doing, he called me over and I had to take a number of reproaches for my careless and irresponsible attitude to my singing gift. This caused the poet Assen Bosev to announce that he was taking care to introduce me to Prof. Hristo Brumbarov. The following year I entered his opera studio..."

From the monograph of prof. Rosalia Bix The Bulgarian Opera Theatre
Nikola Kutin was born in 1936 in the town of Belitsa. In 1956 he graduated from the Teacher's Institute in Sofia. His music lessons began at the age of 10 in the school brass band of his birthplace and continued in artistic amateur activities in Sofia and Pazardzhik. In 1970 he entered the Vocalist Studio of prof. He graduated from the vocal school of Hristo Brumbarov. Since 1972 he has been working at the school of the composer. He is a soloist of the State Opera - Stara Zagora, where he performs over 40 central bass roles: Don Basilio from The Barber of Seville (Rossini), King Philip II and the Inquisitor from Don Carlos, Ramfis from Aida, Zakaria from Nabucco (Verdi), Boris Godunov and Pimen from Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) Ivaylo from the opera of the same name (Marin Goleminov) , Georgy the Terrible from Janini's Nine Brothers (Lyubomir Pipkov) and others. In 1979 he specialised at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre of Taras Shevchenko, He has sung in all opera theatres in the country, as well as with the State Opera - Stara Zagora in Bregenz (Austria), Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Lodz (Poland), Cluj and Iasi (Romania), Corfu (Greece). He has performed in opera and concert tours in Tokyo (Japan), Kosice (Slovakia), Samara (Russia) and Temishoara (Romania). He has recorded with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra. He participated in the television film-opera Yanini's Nine Brothers together with the Bulgarian Choir Chapel Svetoslav Obretenov and the performers Anton Gorchev, Milkana Nikolova, Renny Penkova, Stefka Mineva and Zdravko Gajev.
Working with the singers in Yanina's Nine Brothers goes far beyond intonation difficulties. It moves into the realm of the artistically complex. This applies most of all to Nikola Kutin's performance of Georgi the Terrible. It is rare among singers to find such a happy combination of alert thought, musicianship, emotional immediacy and formal voice. There is no trace of external effects or abstract vocalising in his strong stage presence. It is the result of a thorough understanding and mastery of the musical material.
Maria Kostakeva

With an impulsive and artistic nature, with imagination and a sincere adoration for the profession of opera singer, with a voice rich, beautifully timbred and powerful Nikola Kutin briefly grew up as a direct successor of Georgi Enev in Stara Zagora Opera. His broadcasting is particularly suited to roles such as Ivaylo from Marin Goleminov's opera of the same name, Galitsky from Borodin's Prince Igor, Naiden from Parashkev Khadzhiev's Masters ....
Rosalia Bix

The acting suggestion of Nikola Kutin as the Slavic leader Grandfather Slav in Alexander Yossifov's opera Khan Krum Yuvigi is strong. His sonorous bass finds its true figurative cover in the precisely thought-out demeanor of the folk sage.
Rumyana Apostolova