In the season 2022/23 Milen Bozhkov made his debut as RADAMES at the Warsaw National Opera and returns in this very role here in the season 2023/24. He also portrays RADAMES in the Salzburg Felsenreitschule. He is OTELLO at the Stara Zagora State Opera and returns as PINKERTON in “Madama Butterfly” at the Theatre Krefeld/Mönchengladbach. Besides, he sings his first HERODES in “Salome” at the Opéra de Metz. In 22/ 23 he succeeded here as the PRINCE in “Rusalka”.

Lately, he debuted as OTELLO next to Krassimira Stoyanova at the Varna Summer Festival and as CANIO in “I Pagliacci” at the Ulm Theatre. He portrayed PINKERTON in “Madama Butterfly” and the PRINCE in “Rusalka” at the Theatre Krefeld/Mönchengladbach. He enjoyed huge successes as RADAMES and CAVARADOSSI at the Varna Summer Festival , where he also sang a Gala Concert with Sonya Yoncgeva and he portrayed ISMAELE in “Nabucco” at the Plovdiv Amphitheatre.

The tenor’s most-sung roles include DON JOSE, which he sang in the season 2021/22 at the Nuremberg State Opera, the Tirana National Opera and in the season 2020/21 in a new production of “Carmen” at the Kassel State Theatre. In summer 2022 he can be seen in this very role in an open-air concert with the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra.

Further engagements brought him recently as GUSTAVO in “Un Ballo in maschera” to the Tirana National Opera, as DON JOSE to the Coburg Theatre, as the PRINCE in “Rusalka” to the Opera House Halle and as OFFICER in “Cardillac” to the Hagen Theatre.

Milen Bozhkov studied singing at the Sofia Music Academy and completed his studies at the University of Musik in Graz with KS Prof. Joanna Borowska. Milen Bozhkov completed his musical education with KS Krassimira Stoyanova, who still regularly teaches him.

From 2011 until 2013 he was engaged at the Coburg Theatre. Here, he sang a broad repertoire with such roles as NADIR ( „Les Pêcheurs de perles“), ALFREDO („La Traviata“) TEBALDO („ I Capuleti e i Montecchi“), PINKERTON („Madama Butterfly“) , LENSKI („Eugen Onegin“), RICCARDO („ Un Ballo in Maschera“), RODOLFO („La Boheme“), POLLIONE („ Norma“) , SINGER ( „Der Rosenkavalier“), GERALD ( „Lakmè“ ) and the DUKE OF MANTOVA („Rigoletto“).

Afterwards, the Bulgarian tenor returned as guest to the Coburg Theatre in roles such as CAVARADOSSI („Tosca“), PRINCE SOU CHONG („Das Land des Lächelns“) and the PRINCE („Rusalka“).

Besides he was invited to sing numerous guest performances including PINKERTON at the Darmstadt State Theatre, and the Sofia National Opera, RODOLFO at the NUremberg State Theatre and the Detmold Theatre, the DUCA DI MANTOVA at the Schenkenberg Festival and the Aalto Theatre Essen , DON JOSÉ at the Schenkenberg Festival and at the Stara Zagora State Opera.

Other Concert performances brought him to Japan, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Latvia and Bulgaria. In summer 2022 he sang Gounod’s CECILIA MASS at the Lucerne Concert House.