Newspaper Kultura - To make out the signs of the native black earth - Yana’s Nine brothers by Lyubomir Pipkov at the Sofia Opera

When Paul Dukas, Lyubomir Pipkov’s teacher, pronounced the famous phrase “You excavate out of the earth а style”, he hardly suggested the immeasurable depths of...

The Sofia Opera is a host of the International forum “Opera Europa” from 22 to 24 March.

The forum will gather at the Opera 87 Directors and different representatives of big opera theatres from Europe, America and Canada.   Nicholas Payne, Direc...

Newspaper 24 chasa – “La Dame aux camélias” – again on the stage of the Sofia Opera and Ballet, on 17 February

The last production of the spectacle in Bulgaria was 10 years ago. The ballet “La Dame aux camélias” is to music by G. Verdi – S. Onsoff, Choreographer and Sta...

The tenor Kamen Chanev will be guest-performer in “Turandot”. The bass Giorgi Kirof will be guest in the role of Timur in Puccini’s famous opera

The renowned tenor Kamen Chanev, who presented during the past months to the audience many participations of his on the stage of the Sofia Opera and Ballet, wil...

Penka Momchilova, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency – “Yana’s Nine Brothers” sounds like a dark clang of a bell for a national tragedy, according to Plamen Kartaloff

Lyubomir Pipkov’s masterpiece “Yana’s Nine Brothers”, the most Bulgarian opera according to connoisseurs, will have its premiere at the Sofia Opera and Ballet o...

Newspaper “Zemya” - Krassimira Stoyanova and Kamen Chanev will sing in Verdi’s “Requiem”

Music, which elevates the spirit and strengthens the faith In the eve of the brightest Orthodox Holiday, Eastern, on 12 March, the Sofia Opera will witness wit...

Newspaper “Zemya” - The coming back of “Lakmé” on Sofia stage – one opera masterpiece

Diana Vasileva will be guest-performer at the Sofia Opera and Ballet “Lakmé” by Léo Delibes is a fairy-tale about love, a vision from the world of exotics, tol...

TIRANA, Jan 22 /ATA/ By Sonila Mehmeti - Ramona Tullumani, favourite Violetta of Sofia’s Opera House

The Albanian soprano, Ramona Tullumani, received on Sunday evening a standing ovation from the audience in Sofia’s state Opera House. The celebrated soprano ha...

About “Carmen Suite” and about “Rhapsody in Blue” – two masterpieces again on our stage

The ballet of the Sofia Opera presents on 28 JANUARY, at 16:00 h, the famous ballets “Carmen Suite” and “Rhapsody in Blue” – two one act ballets, which are dema...

Beatrice Venezi will be guest at the Sofia Opera

The young lady will conduct the concert “Puccini’s women” on 20 January Few young people can make the following confession: “I grew up with bread and Puccini”,...

SYNOPSIS - LA CENERENTOLA - Opera by Gioachino Rossini

Act I In a hall of Don Magnifico’s castle, his vain daughters Clorinda and Tisbe are primping. Their stepsister, Cinderella, consoles herself with a song about...

Synopsis - THE NUTCRACKER Ballet by Tchaikovsky

The story is about a little girl. When the curtain rises, we see the Stahlbaum family prepare for Christmas Eve. Marie, her younger brother, Fritz, the mother...

Newspaper “Jivotat dnes”, Petar Galev – the opera and the ballet are the convertible currency of Bulgaria

At the occasion of the newest premiere of the Sofia Opera and Ballet – “Le corsaire” I became aware that when someone looks at the repertoire of our National Ba...

Marta Petkova and Nikola Hadjitanev opened a festival in Russia

The premier soloists of the Sofia Opera and Ballet Marta Petkova and Nikola Hadjitanev performed Wednesday evening the main roles in the ballet “Sleeping Beauty...

The ballet company of the Sofia Opera – awarded with the highest distinction “Golden Lyre”

The ballet company of the Sofia Opera was awarded at the premiere of the ballet “Le corsaire” on 24.11 with the distinction “Golden Lyre” by the President of th...