Awe, wild applause and “Bravo!” shouts filled the hall of the “Kemal Ataturk” cultural center after the finale of the opera “Elektra” by Richard Strauss which the Sofia Opera was invited to perform at the Istanbul opera and ballet festival on the 29th of May.
Conductor Evan-Alexis Christ, director Plamen Kartaloff and lead singers Liliya Kehayova (Elektra), Tsvetana Bandalovska (Hrisotemis), Gergana Rusekova (Clytemnestra), Atanas Mladenov (Orest), Daniel Ostretsov (Egist) as well as Petar Buchkov, Stanislava Momekova, Diana Vasileva, Rosen Nenchev, Stefan Vladimirov, Silvana Pravcheva, Vesela Yaneva, Violeta Radomirska, Alexandrina Stoyanova-Andreeva, Ina Petrova, Maria Pavlova as well as the Sofia Opera orchestra were called back to the stage multiple times for an encore.
“This new invitation for the Istanbul opera and ballet festival shows that music is the fastest and easiest way for people to come closer no matter where they are”, Plamen Kartaloff, director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet, said.
Present at the performance were N. Pr. Angel Cholakov, Bulgarian ambassador in Ankara, Tan Sağtürk, artistic director of the Turkish national opera and ballet and Dzhaner Akgun, artistic director of the Istanbul national opera and ballet.
