“Opera at the Square”: “St. Alexander Nevsky” square
“Opera at the Square” continues:
“Cavalleria Rusticana” by Pietro Mascagni and “Pagliacci” by Ruggiero Leoncavallo: the 15th and 17th of July, 20:00. Conductor: Daniel Oren. Starring:
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Pietro Mascagni)
Santuzza – Gergana Rusekova
Turiddu – Jorge de Leon
Mama Lucia – Vesela Yaneva
Alfio – Roman Burdenko
Lola – Tsveta Sarambelieva
PAGLIACCI (Ruggiero Leoncavallo)
Canio – Jorge de Leon
Nedda – Nino Machaidze
Tonio – Roman Burdenko
Beppe – Giuseppe Infantino
Silvio – Atanas Mladenov
“Mamma Mia!”, score by Benny Andersson and script by Björn Ulvaeus: 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th of July, 20:00. Conductor: Svetoslav Lazarov. Starring: Vesela Delcheva (Sophie), Edelina Kaneva and Lyudmila Kozareva (Donna); also starring Vladimir Mihaylov, Alexandar Georgiev, Nikolay Pavlov, Simeon Vladov, Vesela Yaneva, Silvana Pravcheva, Radoslav Vladimirov, Georgi Arsov and others.
“The Hermit of Rila” by Father Kiril Popov: 1st of August, 21:00; conductor: Zhorzh Dimitrov. Starring Atanas Mladenov, Dobrin Dosev, Angel Hristov, Veselin Mihaylov, Biser Georgiev, Nikolay Petrov and others.
“Turandot” by Giacomo Puccini: 9th of August, 20:00; conductor: Daniel Oren. Starring Ekaterina Semenchuk (Turandot), Jorge de Leon (Kalaf), Carolina Lopez Moreno (Liu) as well as their Bulgarian colleagues Svetozar Rangelov, Krasimir Dinev, Atanas Mladenov, Rosen Nenchev, Daniel Ostretsov, Veselin Mihaylov.
Productions director: Plamen Kartaloff
Tickets for the upcoming productions on the festival’s repertoire: https://www.operasofia.bg/repertoire/995