Opera Singer. A bass of wide repertoire, he is probably best remembered as the title villain of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Boris Godunov". The child of a musical family, he was raised in the northern city of Pavlikeni and studied painting at Sofia's Academy of Fine Arts before switching his focus to music. After winning a 1959 vocal competition he made his 1960 professional bow with the National Opera of Sofia as Timur from Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot". Gradually taking-on new roles and refining his skills, he joined his company on a 1965 European tour and on December 29th of that year bowed at the Metropolitan Opera as Ramfis of Verdi's "Aida". During his two years in the Big Apple, Ghiuselev sang a variety of parts including Czar Boris, Raimondo in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor", the tragic King Philip II from Verdi's "Don Carlos", the Commendatore who comes back from Hell to to take custody of the title anti-hero of Mozart's "Don Giovanni", and Colline from Puccini's "La Boheme". Over his career he headlined at numerous major venues including London's Covent Garden, the Berlin State Opera, the Paris Opera, Teatro San Carlo of Naples, Buenos Aires' Teatro Colon, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Houston Grand Opera, the Arena di Verona, the Vienna State Opera, and La Scala Milano, numbering among his other roles Enrico of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena", Mephistopheles from Gounod's "Faust" as well as the Devil in the works of Boito and Berlioz, Giacopo Fiesco of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra", the bullfighter Escamillo in Bizet's "Carmen", Leporello from "Don Giovanni", the evil Baron Scarpia in Puccini's "Tosca", Banquo from Verdi's "Macbeth", Pimen of "Boris Godunov", the hilarious Don Basilio from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville", and Prince Gremin in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin". Gradually retiring from the stage, he lived out his days in his country's capital. At his death a portion of his recorded legacy was available.