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Biography Highlights
Upcoming & Recent
The Magic Flute at Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Opera Sofia, Turandot and Gounod’s Faust with Krakow Opera, Così fan tutte and La Bohème, the ballets – Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky, la Valse by Ravel / The Green Table by K. Joos at Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and a Wagner - Gala Concert at Opera Varna.
Among his symphonic appearances are concerts with the Graz Philharmonic at Musikverein Graz, the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, the Magdeburg Philharmonic, the Grafenegg Festival with the Tonkünster Orchester, Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, next to Festive Opera and Operetta Highlights concert and Italian Opera Highlights at the Big Hall of the Berlin Philharmony, and Christmas Concerts with the Anhalt Philharmonic Dessau, and a concert at Musikverein Vienna with the orchestra CON FUOCO and Julia Hagen.
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Aida, Falstaff, La Traviata, Love for Three Oranges, Eugen Onegin, Carmen, Roméo et Juliette, Salome, Vanessa, Fidelio, Don Giovanni, Elena Langer’s Figaro Gets a Divorce, the ballets – Carmen / Dawn of a Bull, Borgia, Vincent in Magdeburg, Le Corsaire at the Istanbul Opera, Tosca, Turandot, La Bohème, Don Carlos, La forza del destino in Varna, Rigoletto at Opera Festival Bansko, The Flying Dutchman in Magdeburg, Varna, and the Opera Festival in Veliko Tarnovo, Faust at Summer Festival Varna.
Recent symphonic highlights include concerts with the Brandenburg Symphonic at Nikolaisaal Potsdam, Brandenburg Theater, and Dom zu Brandenburg, with Sofia Philharmonic at Bulgaria Concert Hall, guest appearances at Konzerthaus Dortmund, Musikforum Ruhr, Beethoven Pure Festival with Bochum Symphony at Weilburger Schloss, and at the Big Hall of the Berlin Philharmony with an Opera Gala for the 100th Anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s Death.
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Theater Magdeburg - Tosca
Theater Magdeburg - Tosca
Reviews & Press
Mozart, W. A. - Così fan tutte - Conductor
Bulgarian-German conductor Svetoslav Borisov, who has been principal conductor and deputy general music director at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau since the start of the 2025/2026 season, leaves no doubt about this musically either. He conducts the splendidly playing and sounding Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau with great confidence, precision and temperament. Borisov's Mozart comes across at a rapid tempo, but is controlled at all times and carries the singers. This conductor is a stroke of luck.
- Dieter David Scholz , Der Opernfreund
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Theater Magdeburg - Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos
Svetoslav Borisov and his orchestra accompany the performance with such colorful richness and smoothness, such sensitivity and alertness, that it is pure joy. The full splendor of this chamber-musical Strauss work comes to life—resounding, crackling, and singing!
- Arno Lücker , Opernwelt
Despite all the comic figures, Strauss’s music is often deeply moving, even tenderly melancholic—something the Magdeburg Philharmonic under Svetoslav Borisov managed to convey impressively, for instance in the opera’s prelude.
- Bernhard Doppler , MDR Kultur
Theater Magdeburg - Prokofiev - Die Liebe zu drei Orangen
Magdeburg’s First Kapellmeister Svetoslav Borisov played a decisive role in the premiere’s success, serving as a reliable partner to all the performers on stage. He led the Magdeburg Philharmonic—outstanding also in its many instrumental solos—through all the pitfalls of the demanding score, interpreting Prokofiev’s varied musical structures in an exemplary way.
- Gerhard Eckels , deropernfreund.de
Svetoslav Borisov makes the Magdeburg Philharmonic shine with a superb sense for tonal color and dynamic development.
- Irene Constantin , Volksstimme,
Sinfoniekonzert mit dem Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra - Vladigerov und Schumann, 3. Symphonie
He [Borisov] achieved impressive yet tasteful and never exaggerated emotionality in the pastoral movement as well. The orchestra under Borisov sounded entirely different in Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony—with the necessary density and careful attention to the beginnings and endings of phrases. What impressed me most was the clarity with which the overall form was apparent from the very start. It is evident that conductor Svetoslav Borisov approaches the works he interprets seriously and without unnecessary effects. He stands at the podium with confidence and dignity, free from any superfluous extramusical gestures that might distract the listener, fully aware that the most important task is to reveal the artistic integrity of the work he conducts.
- Eketarina Docheva , www.decrescendo.net
Bochumer Symphoniker - Weilburger Musiksommer (Beethoven, Klavierkonzert Nr. 3, Symphonie Nr. 4)
The symphony orchestra sounded wonderfully fresh, passionately conducted from the very beginning by Svetoslav Borisov. […] The audience then experienced a magnificent interpretation of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60.
- Klaus-Peter Andrießen , www.mittelhessen.de
Theater Magdeburg - Beethoven - Fidelio
It was nothing short of a miracle that amid this masquerade (...) the music was performed so brilliantly that one could easily ignore the unnecessary stage show. It began with Svetoslav Borisov at the podium and the magnificently playing Magdeburg Philharmonic! Such a coherent interpretation was truly unexpected – Chapeau!
- Michael Tanzler , www.onlinemerker.com
Theater Magdeburg - Verdi - La Traviata
Magdeburg’s First Kapellmeister Svetoslav Borisov, at the podium of the Magdeburg Philharmonic—an orchestra distinguished by its excellent performances—ensured with great authority the necessary drive while allowing ample space for the quieter passages.
- Georg Eckels , Der Opernfreund
The Magdeburg Philharmonic played with great concentration under the musical direction of First Kapellmeister Svetoslav Borisov. He understands the magical power of Verdi’s music and, as conductor, highlighted essential and intense moments such as the great duet between Violetta and Germont. He followed the composer’s tempo and infused the performance with a good measure of brio.
