Statement of Acad. Prof. Plamen Kartaloff, Director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet, at the 6th annual meeting of the National Board of Tourism, 23 April 2019 at the Hilton hotel, Sofia

Acad. Prof. Plamen Kartaloff, Director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet, was present at the 6th annual meeting of the National Board of Tourism, which was organize...

Nadia Krasteva, mezzo-soprano, in front of Anastasia Guseva, www.belcanto.ru: “Requiem” by Giuseppe Verdi

On Maundy Thursday, 25 April, Nadia Krasteva will take part in Verdi’s “Requiem” on the stage of the Sofia Opera. The mezzo-soprano shared what means for her th...

PHOTOS FROM THE FIRST PREMIERE SPECTACLE OF “DON GIOVANNI” BY MOZART

A golden ticket will be given for Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem “Requiem” at the Opera – impressio.dir.bg

One person from the audience at the Sofia Opera will win a “golden ticket”. The gold will be in the form of investment gold ingot (1 gram) The admirers of the...

Nadia Krasteva: Let the beauty of music reach the depths of the soul of everyone, let it bring joy, blessing, goodness – by Olia Al-Ahmed, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency

Sofia, 18 April /by Olia Al-Ahmed, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency/ The music in Verdi’s Requiem passes through the soul, it shakes, purifies, said in an interview...

REQUIEM by Giuseppe Verdi – a sacred work which sounds on the opera stage

The Messa da Requiem was first performed on 22 May 1874 and only three days later it was the first opus of this genre performed on an opera stage and that at La...

Mozart heals – voices, and bodies, and souls – Violeta Tsvetkova, Economist Magazine – 12.04.2019

The young people of today need opera and we, the people of my generation, make it so that in the light of the requirements of the modern world to be felt the fa...

After 16 years “Don Giovanni” again at the Sofia Opera – http://въпреки.com

“We need Mozart the same way we need breakfast and every morning, to start the day, we need a shower. Mozart is exceptionally important for the orchestra, a...

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...