In connection with the closing of the financial 2016 year, the online payments will be suspended till 3 January 2017

Dear spectators and friends,     In connection with the closing of the financial 2016 year, we would like to inform you, that the online payments by bank trans...

Life Today Newspaper – The National Opera with a new gesture to the spectators

Interview by Petar Galev with Hristina Staneva Deputy Director Administrative Issues of the Sofia Opera and Ballet After one very successful year in creative...

/Penka Momchilova, Bulgarian Television Agency/ – The meaning of Christmas remind us with a musical parable for children and adults at the Sofia Opera

The meaning of Christmas remind us with a musical parable for children and adults at the Sofia Opera and Ballet – the opera for children “Amahl and the Night Vi...

About Ludwig II, Richard Wagner and the Golden century of the Bavarian culture

Ludwig II of Bavaria is maybe among the strangest crowned personalities in the world history. Born on 25 August 1845 under the sign of the Virgo in the capital...

THE BULGARIAN WAGNERIANA

Recently the produced “Tristan und Isolde” by Academician Plamen Kartaloff for the first time on home stage, at the Sofia Opera, was an exceptional event in our...

WAGNER AND “PARSIFAL”

“In  “PARSIFAL” – this last work of his, Wagner tried to be less severe and autocratic in his attitude to music. Here we shall not find the exhausting, obtrusiv...

RICHARD WAGNER

22 May 1813, Leipzig – 13 February 1883, Venice Wagner lost his father at an early age and grew up in the home of his second father, the dramatic actor Ludwig...

PLEASE SUPPORT US FOR THE ANNUAL AWARDS OF THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM

Dear friends, The public online voting for defining of the winners in the categories of the Annual Awards in tourism for 2016 of the Ministry of Tourism alread...

PARSIFAL – Opera by Richard Wagner – Characters and synopsis

PARSIFAL A festive stage mystery in three acts Libretto: Richard Wagner after motifs from the poem “Parsifal” by Wolfram von Eschenbach and “Parsifal or the P...

“AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS” – 65 YEARS TRIUMPH ALL OVER THE WORLD

Gian Carlo Menotti wrote the music and the libretto of the moving Christmas story “Amahl and the Night Visitors” – one of the most popular operas for children...

SARA-NORA KRYSTEVA RECEIVED THE “GOLDEN CENTURY” AWARD

The distinction was handed over to her by the Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov At the traditional official ceremony in the month of the National Revival Lea...

Violeta Tsvetkova, AFISH.BG - “La forza del destino” to be unique

“La forza del destino” to be unique Last night’s premiere of Verdi’s work at the Sofia Opera is the next pearl in the crown on the company’s playbill – it’s a...

ACAD. PLAMEN KARTALOFF IS THE WINNER OF THE “ST. PAISIY HILENDARSKI” STATE AWARD FOR 2016

ACAD. PLAMEN KARTALOFF IS THE WINNER OF THE “ST. PAISIY HILENDARSKI” STATE AWARD FOR 2016 The Premier Boyko Borisov handed over the “St. Paisiy Hilendarski” s...

PIER FRANCESCO MAESTRINI: “I LOVE TELLING COMPRIHENSIBLE STORIES“

The Italian director Pier Francesco Maestrini for the first time was a set director in Bulgaria, but he is excellently acquainted with our opera singing glory f...

Students of Raina Kabaivanska are gathering at the Sofia Opera for a spectacle of “Turandot”

Students of Raina Kabaivanska are gathering at the Sofia Opera for a spectacle of “Turandot” The production will be presented in three spectacles in December...