She has performed in all the major opera houses in Great Britain, significantly with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and English National Opera, London, and with all the leading British orchestras and conductor in concert, recordings and at the BBC Proms. In 1974, Bulgarian Television dedicated a film to her entitled The Seasons of Raina Kabaivanska.Scottish mezzo soprano Linda Finnie came to full international recognition after her studies in her home country by winning the Kathleen Ferrier Prize at the IVC in 1977 and the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award London, (jury included, Dame Janet Baker and Gerald Moore). Kabaivanska has been awarded with many accolades throughout her career, including the Premio Bellini (1965) for her interpretation of Beatrice di Tenda, the Viotti d'oro (1970), the Premio Puccini (1978), the Premio Illica (1979), Premio Monteverdi (1980), and the Premio Lorenzo il Magnifico from the Medici Academy for the Arts in Florence (1990). Her 1975 Paris debut was as Leonore in Verdi's Il trovatore, and for her Salzburg debut, she interpreted the role of Mrs.
At her Covent Garden debut in 1962, she sang Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, and for New York's Metropolitan she sang Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. But Kabaivanska's most important debut was in the role of Agnese in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda at Milan's La Scala in 1961.
She made her debut at the Sofia National Opera in 1957 in the role of Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
In 1958, she moved to Italy and further developed her technique with Zita Fumagalli. Renowned for her interpretations of the roles of Tosca, Manon, Francesca da Rimini, and Madame Butterfly, this internationally famous soprano has earned the nickname "the Heroine of Melodrama." Kabaivanska accomplished her advanced vocal and piano studies at the Bulgarian State Conservatory in Sofia.
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