Nicola Ghiuselev

Nicola Ghiuselev (Bulgarian: Никола Гюзелев) (also "Gyuzelev"; 17 August 1936 – 16 May 2014) was a Bulgarian operatic bass, particularly associated with the Italian and Russian repertories.
Ghiuselev was born in Pavlikeni. He studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Sofia, and later voice at the school of the National Opera of Sofia, with Christo Brambarov. He made his stage debut with that company, as Timur in "Turandot", in 1960. In 1965, with the Sofia Opera, he toured Germany, the Netherlands and France, and made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, as Ramfis in "Aida", quickly followed by King Philip II in "Don Carlo", and the title role in "Boris Godunov". In two seasons with the Met, he sang as Raimondo in "Lucia di Lammermoor", the Commendatore in "Don Giovanni", Colline in "La bohème". 
Important debuts followed at the Berlin State Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Monte Carlo Opera, the Palais Garnier in Paris, the Liceo in Barcelona, the San Carlo in Naples, the Royal Opera House in London, the Verona Arena, the Salzburg Festival, the Holland Festival, he also appeared in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Marseille, Toulouse, Chicago, Houston, among others. 
Other notable roles include; Mephistopheles in "Faust", Creonte in "Medea", Padre Guardiano in "La forza del destino", Banquo in "Macbeth", Zaccaria in "Nabucco", Silva in "Ernani", Enrico in "Anna Bolena", Galitzky in "Prince Igor", the four villains in "The Tales of Hoffmann", Mosè in "Mosè in Egitto", Marcel in "Les Huguenots", Gremin in "Eugene Onegin", etc.
He died on 16 May 2014, aged 77.
Honours.
Mount Ghiuselev on Brabant Island, Antarctica is named after Nicola Ghiuselev.