Adelaide Yakimova-Furnadjieva was born in Ruse.

Adelaida Yakimova -Furnadjieva was born in Ruse. A versatile creative person with a wide list of interests, Adelaida Yakimova graduates from Rousse National School of Arts "Prof.Vesselin Stoyanov" with three majors - Piano, Classical Singing, and Choral Conducting. In 1980, she graduates Classical Singing at the National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov”. Even as a very young performer, she became a laureate of the "Svetoslav Obretenov" competition. After years as an intern on the stage of the Sofia Opera (1980-1983), the young singer chose to continue her path in the world of opera on the stage of the Ruse Opera, where for 18 creative seasons she works as a soloist-artist, and later she becomes an assistant director, and she is doing both for a while. In 2005, Adelaida Yakimova gets her master's degree in Music and Stage Direction at the National Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov", and in 2008 she was awarded the degree of "Doctor" for her dissertation in the field of music and stage direction: "Psycho-physical preparation of the opera singer-actor - an important point of his musical and stage development. Alternative Principles and Techniques". During this period, Adelaida Yakimova is a part-time teacher at the "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" Academy of Arts and works as a freelance opera director. Adelaida Yakimova-Furnadjieva has dozens of roles as an opera artist. As a stage director, her repertoire includes the operas "Rigoletto", "La Traviata", "Macbeth", "Aida", "Don Juan", "That's what all women do", "La Serve Padrona", "Tosca", "The Deceived Caddy" (Gluck ), "The Telephone" (Menotti), the author's performance - an operatic metamorphosis based on Mozart and Shakespeare "Bastien and Bastienne and their Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Nose" (Shostakovich), as well as the operettas "Die Csárdásfürstin" and "The Bat" (Die Fledermaus). She is an award winner of the "Crystal Lyre" of the Union for Music and Dance Art in 2012 for the staging of Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "The Nose", presented on the stage of the Ruse Opera House which was a premiere for Bulgaria. Adelaida Yakimova-Furnadjieva indefatigable develops her scientific activity in the field of music and performing arts. She is the author of books and scientific publications - "Psycho-physical preparation of the actor for work. Alternative principles and techniques" (2006), "My life with Mozart" ("Brod", 2011), as well as many popular articles and materials in professional publications dedicated to the art of music. Her new book "Symphony for the mirror world "What is above, this is and below; as what is below, is above” (a hermeneutical study of the secret knowledge and its musical reflections). Since the beginning of the 2017-2018 season, Adelaida Yakimova-Furnadjieva has been working as a director in the creative team of the State Opera-Ruse.

Even as a very young performer she became a laureate of the Svetoslav Obretenov Competition. After her apprenticeship years on the stage of the Sofia Opera (1980-1983), the young singer chose to continue her path in the world of opera on the stage of the Rousse Opera, where for 18 creative seasons she worked as a soloist-artist and later, in parallel - as an assistant director.

In 2005 Adelaide Yakimova defended her Master's degree in Music and Stage Direction at the National Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov", and in 2008 she was awarded the degree of Doctor for her dissertation in the field of music and stage direction "Psycho-physical training of the opera singer-actor - an important stage of his musical and stage development. Alternative principles and techniques". In the same period Adelaide Yakimova was a lecturer at the National Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" and worked as a freelance opera director.

Adelaide Yakimova-Furnadjieva has dozens of roles as an opera artist. As a director-producer her repertoire includes the operas Rigoletto, La Traviata, Macbeth, Aida, Don Giovanni, Thus Do All Women, The Servant Mistress, Tosca, The Deceitful Caddie (Gluck), "The Telephone" (Menotti), the author's performance - an operatic metamorphosis based on Mozart and Shakespeare "Bastien and Bastienne and Their Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Cape" (Shostakovich), as well as the operettas "The Queen of Chardash" and "The Bat". She was awarded the Crystal Lyre Prize of the Union of Music and Dance Artists in 2012 for her production of Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Cape, presented on the stage of the Rousse Opera for the first time in Bulgaria.

Adelaide Yakimova-Furnadjieva is also tirelessly developing her scientific activity in the field of music and performing arts. She is the author of books and scientific publications - "Psycho-physical preparation of the actor for work. Alternative Principles and Techniques" (2006), "My Life with Mozart" ("Brod", 2011), as well as numerous popular articles and materials in professional publications devoted to musical art. Her new book, Symphony for the Mirror World, What's Above, What's Below; What's Below, What's Above (a hermeneutic study of secret knowledge and its musical reflections), is in press.

Since the beginning of the 2017-2018 season Adelaide Yakimova-Furnadjieva works as a director in the creative team of the State Opera-Ruse.