Spanish Soprano, born in Bulgaria. She studied her Music Degree at Sofia Royal School of Music, majoring in Piano and Singing with top scores in both disciplines.

She debuted at Sofia Theatre with “Die lustigen weiber von Windsor” by Otto Nicolai. Since then, she has performed in theatres all over Europa, as Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austrian or Spain, as well as in South Africa and South America.

She got a grant from the Drama & Singing School of the “Teatro alla Scala di Milano” where she made her debut with the world premiere of Giacomo Manzoni’s opera “Doctor Faust” conducted by Gary Bertini.

After her success in the “Toti Dal Monte” International Singing Context in Treviso where she won the First Prize, she debuted in many other important theatres along with well-known singers and conductors. With the unforgettable Peter Maag, she sang the role of Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, and toured around Italy performing some of the most difficult Mozart’s Concert Arias for soprano. She has also performed many times with Theodor Guschlbauer and the Strasbourg Philarmonic Orchestra.

She also won the Context “Voci Nuove Puccini e il Suo Tempo” and toured Germany performing the main role of “Lucia di Lammermoor”. In Frankfurt she sang Verdi’s Requiem and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, conducted by Yuri Ahronovich.

Her intense activity in opera theatres is combined with many liederabend and sacred music performances (Munich, Frankfurt, Monaco, París, Hamburgo...).

Later, Krasteva was awarded with the second prize at the “Mario del Monaco Context” and was finalist at the Philadelphia “Luciano Pavarotti Context”. That year, she returned to Teatro alla Scala di Milano to perform “Iphigenie in Tauride”, conducted by Riccardo Muti, recently published in DVD format.

The great Peruvian tenor Luigi Alva invited M. Krasteva to sing Faust, Otello, La traviata, Lucia, Falstaff, Rigoletto or Turandot (Liu) in the opera seasons of Lima (Peru) for about ten years, conducted by Marco Armiliato, among others. In 1996, she performed Mimi (La Bohème) at the Cape Town Theatre, in South Africa, conducted by  Renato Palumbo, amongst others. Later she sang a concert in Montevideo with tenor Luis Lima. Due to her success, the following season she was invited to sang Desdemona opposite Luis Lima in Verdi`s Otello.

In following years, she played a key role in Madrid, Teatro Calderón’s opera seasons, singing main roles in Rigoletto, L`elisir d`amore, La traviata, I pagliacci, Carmen, La bohème, Otello, Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) and Lucia di Lammermoor. Some of these performances are commercially available in DVD format.

Krasteva is a frequent guest of different European, American and Spanish theatres. She lives in Spain from 2000. In July 2004, following her success in the principal role of Spanish opera Arrieta’s Marina, she reappeared at Gijón, Teatro Jovellanos as the main role of Lucia di Lammermoor, in an integral version broadcasted on television. She has performed La bohème also broadcasted by TV. In September 2005, she was Micaela at a Carmen Production set up in Madrid, with Mario Malagnini, Denyce Graves and Elena Zaremba.

After this, her career takes off definitively singing La bohème (Mimi) in the Municipal Theater of Lima (Peru), Quito (Ecuador), Guadalajara (Mexico) and Malta; Micaela (Carmen) in South Korea (Seoul); Szymanovski’s Stabat Mater and Verdi’s Requiem in Madrid National Auditorium, Sofia, Russe (Bulgaria), Gijón and San Sebastián, these last two accompanied by the prestigious Orfeón Donostiarra. After that, Mozart’s Requiem in San Sebastián; John Rutter’s “Mass of Children” (Spanish premiere in Bilbao, Teatro Euskalduna); Violetta (La traviata) in Karlsruhe (Germany) and Elvira (I Puritani) in Linz. She made her debuts as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) in Sofia (Bulgaria) and Lima, and Die Zauberflöte (Pamina) in Lima and Quito.

In 2006 she sings the 250th anniversary of Mozart`s birth Concert at Barcelona, Gran Teatro del Liceo. In May 2008 she debuts in Sevilla Teatro de la Maestranza, as Donna Anna opposite Erwin Schrott’s Don Giovanni conducted by Antoni Ros Marbá. In January 2010 she performs Verdi’s Requiem with the prestigious choir Orfeón Donostiarra recorded in DVD.

In 2011 she sings in Madrid, Teatro Real’s production of Elektra with Semion Bychkov. In March 2013 she performs the soprano role (Alba) at the world premiere of “L`indovina” opera by the Valencian composer Salvador Giner at Valencia, Palacio de la Música.  In September 2013 returns to Lima in Otello, and the Gala tribute to the 200th anniversary of Verdi's birth singing arias of Ernani, Il Trovatore, La Forza del Destino and Aida.

Later he has sung with the main Spanish orchestras, among others: Szymanovski’s "Stabat Mater" and other works with Christoph Koenig and the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid,  "Die Fledermaus" with Vassily Petrenko and the Orquesta de Castilla y León, Mendelssohn’s "Ellijah" with Rossen Milanov and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA), and Dvorak’s Requiem with Carlos Kalmar and the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Televisión Española (OSRTVE).

She has toured Romania and Bulgaria with "Suspiros de España", a concert-show of Spanish music and zarzuela, and has also toured South America with "From Thracian to Al Andalus", a show with Bulgarian and Spanish music. In the last two seasons she has sung the “2017 Christmas concert” and the role of Rosa in Amadeo Vives’s Maruxa at Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela.

In recent years she has added roles such as Manon Lescaut, Sour Angelica, Amelia Boccanegra, Tatiana and Elisabetta di Valois into her repertoire. Among other, she has recorded several records for Bongiovanni including Verdi’s Rèquiem in Switzerland, Luigi Boccherini’s Symphony n° 27, Tomaso Traetta’s Stabat Mater, Nicola Persiani’s Inés de Castro. She has also recorded John Rütter’s "Mass of the Children", Verdi’s Rèquiem with the Orfeón Donostiarra, and Gluck’s “Iphigenie in Tauride” with Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Ricardo Muti, for the Sony Classical label.

Next commitments include concerts of Spanish music in Bulgaria; "From Thracian to Al Andalus" Spain tour; Goudnod’s “Faust” (Margheritte) and the leading role of Puccini’s "Manon Lescaut" in Lima, Peru; Verdi’s "Falstaff" (Alice Ford) in Catalonia; and Boito’s "Mefistofele" (Margarita) and Verdi’s “Don Carlo” (Elisabetta) in Bulgaria.