9 March – first meeting of the Wagner Society in Bulgaria
28 Feb 2019

9 March – first meeting of the Wagner Society in Bulgaria

Dear friends of the Sofia Opera and Ballet,


Dear admirers of Richard Wagner's creative work,

We have the pleasure to invite you to the first meeting of the Wagner Society in Bulgaria for 2019 on 9 March at 11:00 h in the hall of the Sofia Opera and Ballet (big stage).

In the frames of the event, Assoc. Prof. Petar Plamenov will give a lecture on subject “The Pigeon and the Swan. Guilt and Redemption in Richard Wagner’s opera PARSIFAL”.

Besides it, the guests of the event will have the chance to see also an extract from the monumental film series by the director Tony Palmer – WAGNER. The film is with the participation of Richard Burton, Sir Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave and represents a rich panorama of Wagner’s life.

The accent in the programme will be a fragment from a scene of Kundry from the opera “Parsifal”, performed by Gergana Rusekova. Répétiteur Yolanta Smolyanova.

The presentation for the first time in Bulgaria of the tetralogy “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, “Tristan und Isolde” and “Parsifal” turned the Sofia Opera and Ballet into one of the leading theatres, maintaining this repertoire. Plamen Kartaloff’s productions set the beginning of a Wagnerian tradition in our country and imposed a new standard in the interpretation of these titles in world scale. The echo in prestigious international editions about the high artistic value of these large-scale productions and the enormous interest of the Bulgarian and foreign audience assigned for the Sofia Opera the place of one of the main Wagnerian centres.

With the present letter we would like to announce the beginning of a series of events, which will be held regularly till the opening of the SEVENTH WAGNER FESTIVAL.

Every month will be organized meetings of the Wagner Society in Bulgaria, at which you will have the chance to acquaint yourselves with details of the creative work of the great German composer, considered from different aspects with references from philosophy, cinema, aesthetics, music ...

Before the event we kindly invite you to a cup of coffee or tea in the central foyer of the Opera. We are expecting you on 9 March at 11:00 h in the hall of the Sofia Opera and Ballet. Free entrance after preliminary registration on e-mail reservations@operasofia.bg or on telephone + 359 2 8006266, 0879 40 76 43.



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