The Messa da Requiem was first performed on 22 May 1874 and only three days later it was the first opus of this genre performed on an opera stage and that at La...
The young people of today need opera and we, the people of my generation, make it so that in the light of the requirements of the modern world to be felt the fa...
“We need Mozart the same way we need breakfast and every morning, to start the day, we need a shower. Mozart is exceptionally important for the orchestra, a...
One of the most legendary opera singers of our time José Carreras accepted the invitation of the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music to be awarded...
The opera “Don Giovanni” was ordered after the great success of “Le nozze di Figaro” in Prague.
It is supposed that Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto was based on a...
With all metamorphoses, which Don Juan underwent in works different in genre and plot through the years, he has turned from a character into a motif.
There are...
After her debut in the role of Amelia in 1987 on the stage of La Scala in Milan with Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Guleghina has performed this part dozens of times...
Giuseppe VerdiThe concept of the Requiem relates to the end of 1868; Rossini’s death inspired Verdi to pay homage to the memory of “the most respected Italian c...
Days before the coming of the greatest Christian Eastern holidays, the Sofia Opera and Ballet invites on 25 April 2019 its admirers, in order to get in touch wi...
DON GIOVANNI: Vito Priante, Petar Naydenov DONNA ANNA: Radostina Nikolaeva, Tsvetana Bandalovska DON OTTAVIO: Daniel Ostretsov, Hrisimir Damyanov, Juan Fran...
On 18 April 2019 the Sofia Opera and Ballet invites its admirers to the sixth premiere for the season. The new title in the playbill is the opera “Don Giovanni”...
Vera Nemirova about her meetings with one unusual cat
“Cats have nine lives”. In these words sounds the idea of rebirth or of a second chance in life. It seems...