site.btaBulgarian Opera Singer Raina Kabaivanska Presented Italy's Golden Eagle Award
Raina Kabaivanska received the Italian Golden Eagle Award (Aquila d'Oro). The statuette was presented to her by the Minister of Culture Krustyu Krastev at a two-hour ceremony at the Italian Embassy in Sofia on Monday.
This was the first time the international prize is being awarded outside Italy, said Professor Fabrizio Politi, chairman of the prize committee.
On receiving her prize, the opera prima thanked in Bulgarian and Italian: "Thank you very much. I was really touched. Maybe it's because I'm an old woman," she said with a smile, adding that the eagle is a great bird - a bird of freedom.
She was born in Burgas (on the Black Sea) in 1934 and is among the leading opera singers of her generation. Her brilliant career spans all the most important opera houses and concert halls, on all continents, but she is particularly active in Italy, where she sings in all the most important theatres, the award citation states. It was presented to Raina Kabaivanska "for her outstanding professional successes on stages around the world, for her resolve to transmit the spirit of perfectionism in the careers of young artists, and for having chosen Italy as her second artistic homeland."
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