“Yes, yes, yes! I will always say it … looking to the future with loyalty and wisdom, living in the present with passion and love! And the past will smile at us with its mysterious eyes. Happy 7th anniversary, my Latino! “Yoncheva wrote on social media on the occasion of the holiday.” This was the only sunny date this month, “Hindoyan replied.
The covenant day is July 25, the year – 2014. In other words – this is about six months from the beginning of their relationship. However, their first meeting dates back five years. It happened before the Bulgarian woman graduated from Geneva. Hindoyan was tasked with seeing and working with all the graduating students at the Conservatory.
“I imagined a professor of such a respectable age who agreed to show me all his knowledge in this exam and we will work very, very hard,” the Plovdiv-born opera prima recalls. Despite the inner attitude, the conductor notes that Yoncheva did not go to any of the rehearsals. The reason – at that time she was engaged in a performance in Madrid. That is why the two had to meet separately – in a park near the Conservatory. “The meeting was great, and then the concert,” he recalls. his 41-year-old Venezuelan. Wow, that’s what his future wife said.
Although their paths diverge for five years, at their next meeting, Hindoyan notes that he will marry the soprano in 15 days. And although there is a slight deviation in the calculations, he is right that he will soon say the coveted “yes” to his beloved, which happens half a year later.
Both Yoncheva and Hindoyan are citizens of the world. Moreover, before the pandemic, the Metropolitan Opera star explained that he spent about 90% of the year on the road.
After all, the family mentions Switzerland as their home. For years, the two have lived in a house by Lake Geneva. Situated on a small hill, it offers a view of the water. It is full of vineyards. “It’s so quiet you can even hear the buzzing of insects. The house has many windows that flood all the rooms, even in winter. The interior is all white – my black Steinway piano is the only furniture in a different color,” she says. Yoncheva.
The fact that COVID-19 temporarily piles up the event industry, the family accepts the principle of the half-full glass. She accepts it as a gift, thanks to which the focus shifts entirely to the relationship and the children.
Both Yoncheva and Hindoyan burn in the world of opera. However, they do not become a kind of connected vessels in the guild. On the contrary, they avoid working together. “We try to build our career and development independently, with the possible exception of special occasions such as Christmas. That is, although I support my husband in every possible way,” Placido Domingo’s favorite told opera-online.com.
On several occasions these “special occasions” took place in our country, in 2015 they bowed in the “Bulgaria” hall, in 2017 – in the National Palace of Culture. Very soon – on August 31, Sonya Yoncheva will return – and triumphantly – to the Bulgarian audience. She turns her concert in front of the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral into a real celebration, and the great tenor Placido Domingo will stand next to her on the stage. fans.
Whether her family, Hindoyan and their two children, will travel with her remains to be seen. However, combining professional commitments with time for loved ones will not be a novelty for the star of “Tosca”. The son of our pride in the opera world cried for the first time only a few months after the wedding – in October 2014. Five years later Mateo became the proud father of a girl whom the family christened Sofia. The stage is memorable – only six weeks after the birth she gave concerts in Hamburg, Moscow and Sofia, Monitor writes.
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