Krassimira Stoyanova was born in Bulgaria and studied singing and violin at the Plodiv Music Academy and violin at the Conservatory Russe.

Mrs. Stoyanova made her professional debut in 1995 at the Opera National de Sofia, where she sang a wide range of repertory: Rigoletto (Gilda), Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna), Il Guarany (Cecilia), and Antonio Carlo Gomes' I Fosca (Delila), La Juive (Rachel), La Clemenza di Tito (Vitellia) and Idomeneo (Ilia).

Her international career developed rapidly and took her – among others -  to the following opera houses: Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (Violetta),  Carnegie Hall: Les Huguenots (Valentine), La Battaglia di Lignano (Lida), Hamburgische Staatsoper. La Traviata (Violetta), Royal Opera House Covent Garden: La Bohème (Mimi),  Ravenna Festival: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Riccardo Muti, Opernhaus Zürich: La Traviata (Violetta), Deutsche Oper Berlin: Idomeneo (Elettra), Le Nozze di Figaro (Gräfin), Konzerthaus Berlin: Rossini's Stabat Mater conducted by Maestro Marcus Creed with CD-recording,Bayerische Staatsoper München: Carmen (Micaela), Salzburger Festspiele Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Antonia), Teatro Reggio di Torino: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Myung-Whung Chung.

Since 1998 Krassimira Stoyanova has been engaged at the Wiener Staatsoper and in October 2009 she is awarded with the title “Kammersängerin der Wiener Staatsoper”.

The artist works with conductors like Myung-Whun Chung, Marcus Creed, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Fedoseev, Daniele Gatti, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Christian Thielemann, to mention only a few.

Among her important role and house debuts during the last seasons are to mention: Il trovatore (Leonora) at Washington’s Opera House, Falstaff (Alice), Le Villi (Anna), Otello (Desdemona) at Vienna’s State Opera, all season opening productions, Luisa Miller at Munich’s State Opera, Iphigenie en Tauride at Hamburg’s State Opera (conductor: Simone Young) Iphigenie en Aulide (Opera Roma –conductor: Riccardo Muti), Simone Boccanegra (Amelia) at Ginevra’s Opera House, Rusalka at Zurich Opera House.

Future projects from the Season 2010/11 on: her house debut at the Opera Bastille in Paris with Luisa Miller, debut at Amsterdam’s Opera House with Eugen Onegin (Tatjana-debut), Don Carlos with her debut as Elisabetta at Vienna’s State Opera, debut of the role of Marguerite/Faust at the Liceu in Barcelona, debut of La Wally at Ginevra’s Opera House. She will sing  Amelia/Simone Boccanegra, new productions in Chicago and in Munich.
Krassimira Stoyanova is also a very demanded concert singer. Some exampels of recent concerts: Missa Solemnis at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre with M° Fedosseev, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the Vatican with M° Jansons, a Mendelssohn concert with M° de Billy at Vienna’s Musikverein, Requiem by Brahms in Munich and Luzern with M° Jansons, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Münchner Philharmoniker (M° Thielemann), Missa Solemnis with the Dresden Staatskapelle (M° Thielemann), 9th Beethoven with Sir Colin Davis at the Gstaad Festival, concert and recording of Maria di Rohan with Marc Elder, debut of the Requiem by Verdi with Mariss Jansons and the Berliner Philharmoniker in Berlin and Salzburg, a duo recital with Vesselina Kasaravo during the Munich Festival in July 2010.

Among her future concert projects are to mention: Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis, Verdi’s Requiem with M° Gatti in Paris and Vienna, Rossini’s Stabat Mater with M° Muti in Vienna, Te Deum  by Bruckner with M° Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, concerts in Moscow with M° Fedoseev, Verdi’s Requiem with M° Temirkanoff at Rome’s Santa Cecilia, a concert of Otello with M° Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as well as Verdi’s Reqiem with M° Muti at the Salzburg Festival.

In 2008 her first solo cd recording has been released: “I palpiti d’amor” which is awarded with “Le Diamant d’Opéra”, label: Orfeo.