“I wish all my colleagues good health, inspiration, energy, love for the stage and many wonderful shared moments!
Dear audience, we’re eagerly awaiting you!
Good luck!”
This is what Marta Petkova, artistic director of the Sofia Opera ballet, wrote on social media.
The Sofia Opera ballet season will open on 8, 10 and 11.10 with “Romeo and Juliet” by Sergei Prokofiev, with Kaloyan Boyadzhiev’s choreography. After its Sofia Opera premiere in 2024, one of the greatest ballet masterpieces of the 20th century enjoys a huge interest.
Starring: Boryana Petrova, Vyara Ivancheva, Marta Petkova, Emil Yordanov, Nikola Hadzhitanev, Frederico Pinto, Georgi Banchev, Simeon Atanasov, Vincenzo Karuana, the Sofia Opera lead ballet dancers and corps de ballet; conductor: Grigor Palikarov.
Earlier, on 2.10, a “Ballet Gala” will take place in Stara Zagora featuring fragments from “Romeo and Juliet”, “La Bayadere”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “Don Quixote” and “Zorba the Greek”.
Ballet fans will also be able to see “Swan Lake”, “Zorba the Greek”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “Anna Karenina”, “Giselle”, “Le Corsaire”, “Don Quixote” as well as the traditional and much awaited Christmas and New Year performances of “The Nutcracker”.
This season, a new ballet piece will premiere on the 4th of March: “Three Faces” gathers the artistic inspiration of the great contemporary choreographers George Balanchine, Jiří Kylián and Gareth Smit.
Tickets for all performances till the end of the year are already on sale.
