Bulhakova, Lilia-Fruz
No. 7
Voice type: Soprano
Country: Ukraine
Date of birth: 29 July, 1995
Born on July 29, 1995 in Yevpatoria, Crimea, she studied at the Simferopol College of Music until 2014. A recipient of the Grand Prize of the Parliament of Ukraine in 2010, she took part in the International Eurochestries contest in Jonzac (France) in 2011. She got her Bachelor’s Degree in 2018 at the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in opera singing. During the years, she won the International Competition “The Pearl of Art” (Kiev, 2017), the International Competition “The Star Bridge” (Kiev, 2016), the International Competition “Ukraine Joins the World” (Kiev, 2017). In addition, she was a recipient of the Alemdar Karamanov Grant in 2014. At the same time, she played in the Opera Studio of the National Music Academy of Ukraine. In December 2018, she performed in Händel’s Messiah in Bad Neustadt, Germany. Currently she studies for her Master’s in the Opera in Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Die Loreley
Rimsky-Korsakov: Otvet’ mne, zorkoye svetilo! – Shemakha’s Hymn to the Sun from The Golden Cockerel
Rossini: Arpa gentil – Corinna’s aria from Il viaggio a Reims
Semi-final
Gounod: Je veux vivre dans le rêve – Juliette’s waltz from Roméo et Juliette
Donizetti: Regnava nel silenzio – Lucia’s aria from Lucia di Lamermoor
Final
Verdi: È strano! è strano!… Ah, fors’è lui... Sempre libera – Violetta’s recitative and aria from La traviata
Mozart: Crudele?... Non mi dir – Donna Anna’s recitative and aria from Don Giovanni
Verdi: Caro nome che il mio cor – Gilda’s aria from Rigoletto