Kaludi Kaludov was born on the 15th of March 1953
in Karavelovo. He studied at the State Academy of Music as a student of Mme. Jablenska.
Kaludi won prizes in singing competitions in Sofia, Genoa, Athens and Moscow.
Between 1978 and 1989, in addition to being
first tenor with the Sofia National Opera, he appeared at many important European opera
houses. He worked with the conductors
Claudio Abbado, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, appearing in Attila at
La Scala, Ballo in maschera in Genoa and Aida in Tel Aviv.
His appearances in the United States as Grigorij in Boris Godunov took him to Chicago and
Houston.
Additional international appearances followed in Buenos Aires, Berlin, Dresden, Rome,
Hamburg, Chile, France, Amsterdam,
Philadelphia and Finland.
In 1997/98, he toured Japan with the Slovak National Theater.
Concert engagements took the singer to San Francisco,
Trieste, Paris, Leipzig, Berlin and Geneva.
Roles in his repertoire included Alfredo,
Don Carlo, Radames, Manrico, Lenskij, Grigorij, Nemorino,
Edgardo and Duca.
