CONDUCTORS NIGHT AT THE SOFIA OPERA
19 November 2016 ● 10.00-22.00 h
Ambassadors in the Theatres Night: Gabriela Georgieva (soprano) and Atanas Mladenov (baritone)
PROGRAMME
10.00-16.00 h Tours “Get to know the Opera”. An account about the theatre behind the curtains, in the dressing rooms and the rehearsal halls. Make-up demonstration.
10.30 – Big hall – Meeting with the conductor Francesco Rosa and with the director Pier Francesco Maestrini, Italy
11.00-14.00 – Big hall – Connecting rehearsal of “La forza del destino” by Giuseppe Verdi
12.00 – Chamber hall – Workshop performance with the participation of the conductor Zhorzh Dimitrov and musicians from the orchestra
14.00 – Big hall – Meeting with the conductor Grigor Palikarov
PHOTO EXHIBITIONS
Central foyer – “Great opera conductors” – author: Hristo Yuskeseliev Symbolic personalities behind the conductor’s stand of the Sofia Opera.
Marble foyer – Photo exhibition “Opera” – author: Evgeniy Stanimirov “Norma”, “Eugene Onegin”, “Nabucco”, “Don Carlo” and “Das Rheingold”.
In front of the Anastas Petrov Ballet hall – “Ballet moments” – author: Svetoslav Nikolov Moments of the ballets “Giselle”, “La Bayadère” and “Sleeping Beauty”.
CITY MARK CENTRE
(former Levski Cinema, 30, Y. Sakazov Blvd.)
17.30 – “Path in the years” – film about the conductor Borislav Ivanov – on the occasion of his 85th Anniversary
19.00 – “L’ítaliana in Algeri” by G. Rossini – recording of the guest-performance of the Sofia Opera at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1981 on the occasion of 1300 Years Bulgaria. Director: Vili Tsankov. Conductor: Mihail Angelov. With the participation of: Asen Selimski, Stefka Mineva, Pavel Gerdzhikov, Mincho Popov 
Gabriela Georgieva is a graduate of the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music. She specialized opera singing at the Boris Christoff Bulgarian Academy of Art in Rome. She took part in master classes of Caroline Dumas, Peter Dvorsky and Anna Tomowa-Sintow.
Since 2000, she has been working with Ghena Dimitrova, and later also with Kaludi Kaludov, who played a main role in her formation as a singer. Her career began in Varna in 2002 as Leonora from Verdi’s “Il trovatore”. In 2003, she made her debut at the Sofia Opera as Amelia from “Un ballo in maschera” by Verdi. Among her roles are Norma, Manon Lescaut, Macbeth, Aida. She has a rich opera and concert repertoire, recordings and international participations.
Atanas Mladenov graduated from the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music. He specialized Rossini’s music in Barcelona and opera singing at the Boris Christoff Bulgarian Academy of Art in Rome. He studied also at the G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. He took part in master classes of Raúl Giménez, Elena Filipova, Evgenia Dundekova.
He started working at the Sofia Opera and Ballet in 2012. He has sung in “Rigoletto” and “Il barbiere di Siviglia” in France, “La scala di seta” by Rossini in Pesaro, “Il matrimonio segreto” by Cimarosa in Cesena, Italy. In his repertoire are roles from “L’elisir d’amore”, “Lakmé”, “Rita”, “The Golden Apple” by P. Hadzhiev, Albert from ”Werther” by Massenet and Gunter in ”Götterdämmerung” by R. Wagner on the stage of the Sofia Opera and Ballet. Among his last roles are Dandini from “La cenerentola”, Ping in “Turandot”, Kurwenal in “Tristan und Isolde” and Eugene Onegin.