José Carreras will be awarded а “Doctor Honoris Causa” of the National Academy of Music - Duma Newspaper, 10.04.2019, p. 18

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...

History of the creation of DON GIOVANNI

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...

Don Juan in the course of time

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...

The world-known opera diva Maria Guleghina will be guest-performer on 29 May in “UN BALLO IN MASCHERA” by Giuseppe Verdi on the stage of the Sofia Opera

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...

100 YEARS FROM THE BIRTH OF DIMITAR PETKOV AND RUSLAN RAYCHEV

Creation history of Giuseppe Verdi’s REQUIEM

Creation history of Giuseppe Verdi’s REQUIEM

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...

ABOUT VERDI’S “REQUIEM” ON 25 APRIL AT THE SOFIA OPERA AND BALLET

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 – WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – Characters and performers. Production team.

DON GIOVANNI: Vito Priante, Petar Naydenov DONNA ANNA: Radostina Nikolaeva, Tsvetana Bandalovska DON OTTAVIO: Daniel Ostretsov, Hrisimir Damyanov, Juan Fran...

The Opera “Don Giovanni” by Mozart with premiere spectacles on 18, 19, 20 and 21 April at the Sofia Opera and Ballet

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”...

MARIA GULEGHINA COMES BACK AS AMELIA AT THE SOFIA OPERA ON 29 MAY - Ivan Varbanov, The News BG Reporter

Author © Ivan Varbanov  After her delightful appearance on the stage of the Sofia Opera and Ballet at the end of January as Kundry in Wagner’s “Parsifal”, th...

THE NINE LIVES OF THE CAT IVANKA

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...

LEGEND OF THE LAKE Ballet on music by Pancho Vladigerov - Characters and cast. Production team.

  Libretto, Choreography and Direction Donvena Pandoursky   The Prince: Nikola Hadjitanev, Emil Yordanov, Tsetso Ivanov The Lake Maiden: Marta Petkova,  Kat...

The Sofia Opera and Ballet at an exhibition in Berlin

From 6 to 10 March 2019 the Sofia Opera and Ballet presents itself at the international tourist exhibition ITB Berlin. Our first opera and ballet theatre prese...

A star was born - Author: Maya Filipova , impressio.dir.bg

Vesela Delcheva – “The Bulgarian” Christine from the musical “The Phantom of the Opera” Author: Maya Filipova / 9 February 2019   She is Christine fro...