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"Sing again, with your dear voice revealing
A tone
Of some world far from ours,
Where music and moonlight and feeling
Are one."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley,
To Jane - The Keen Stars Were Twinkling

He's handsome, with big dark eyes that are
sometimes clouded with concern, but can
crinkle into the warmest of smiles....

He has a big, strong, reverberant bass
voice - that sort of rarity most often found
among Slavic men. It has drawn the attention
of Gian Carlo Menotti, who held an audition
in Peytchinov's native Sofia, and after hearing
the young man sing only a few bars, demanded,
"what are you doing for this voice?!"