Boris Trajanov

Boris Trajanov (Macedonian: Борис Трајанов, born in Ljubljana, 1959) is Macedonian operatic baritone.

At the beginning, he studied singing with his father Goga Trajanov in Skopje. He continued his studies with Biserka Cvejic in Belgrade and Pier Miranda Ferraro in Milano. He made his stage debut in 1986 in the operetta "The Gypsy Baron". The same year followed his operatic debut as Enrico Ashton in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lamermoor".

In his career of over 20 years, he sang in more than 550 theatres and opera houses in the world, appearing in more than 35 roles. His is widely regarded as one of the best interpreters of the role of Scarpia in Puccini's "Tosca". His wide repertoire contains the most important roles from Verdi's operas, such as Nabucco, Conte di luna, Rigoletto, Rodrigo Posa, Macbeth, Ezio, Renato, Iago, Don Carlo, Georges Germont. He appeared also as Don Pizarro in "Fidelio", Guglielmo in "Maria Stuarda", Escamillo in "Carmen", Prince Yeletsky in "The Queen of Spades", Sharpless in "Madama Butterfly", Gerard in "Andrea Chénier", Alfio in "Cavalleria Rusticana".

In 2005 Boris Trajanov became an UNESCO Artist for Peace.Boris Trajanov has launched an initiative to plant 2 million trees throughout the country's mountains, one for each citizen of Macedonia. About 200 seedlings were already planted earlier this year at Breznica, near Skopje, an area ravaged by a large forest fire last summer.

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* [http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=25698&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Nomination of Boris Trajanov as UNESCO Artist for Peace]