FESTIVE GALA CONCERT
of the Sofia Opera and Ballet
In this difficult period of social isolation, the Sofia Opera Pearls Streams continues with a Spring Concert, after the bright Easter holidays and on the eve of St. George's Day, which includes special video adresses and short musical greetings by some of the biggest names in the opera world. Among them are Raina Kabaivanska, Maria Guleghina, Catherine Foster, Nadia Krasteva, Tsvetana Bandalovska, Kostadin Andreev, director Filippo Tonon, conductors Constantin Trinks, Erich Wächter, Pavel Klinichev, music critic Klaus Billand.
The online concert is another gift for our audience and will be broadcast on the site of the Sofia Opera – www.operasofia.bg, its Facebook profile and Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/operasofia/.
In the programme:
RICHARD WAGNER
PARSIFAL
Overture
Performed by the Sofia Opera Orchestra
Conductor – CONSTANTIN TRINKS
GIACOMO PUCCINI
TOSCA
Aria of Flora Tosca
Performed by RAINA KABAIVANSKA
Conductor – BRUNO BARTOLETTI
Director – GIANFRANCO DE BOSIO
GIUSEPPE VERDI
IL TROVATORE
Gypsy Chorus
Performed by Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra of the Sofia Opera
Conductor LAURENT CAMPELLONE
Director FILIPPO TONON
Chorus Master VIOLETA DIMITROVA
Choreography RIOLINA TOPALOVA
GIUSEPPE VERDI
AIDA
Duet of Amneris and Radamès
Performed by ALEXANDRINA MILCHEVA and NIKOLA NIKOLOV
Conductor IVAN MARINOV
Orchestra of the Sofia Opera
GIUSEPPE VERDI
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Aria of Amelia
Performed by MARIA GULEGHINA
Conductor BORIS SPASOV
Director PLAMEN KARTALOFF
ALEXANDER BORODIN
PRINCE IGOR
Performed by the SOFIA OPERA BALLET
Soloists VESA TONOVA and STOIMEN TODOROV
Conductor GEORGI NOTEV
Director PLAMEN KARTALOFF
Choreography ASEN GAVRILOV
Recorded in 1999 in Alexander Battenberg Square
GEORGES BIZET
CARMEN
Aria of Micaëla
Performed by TSVETANA BANDALOVSKA
Conductor ZHORZH DIMITROV
Director PLAMEN KARTALOFF
Scenography MIODRAG TABACKI
Costumes HRISTIYANA MIHALEVA-ZORBALIEVA
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
SAMSON ET DALILA
Aria of Dalila from the finale of Act 1
Performed by NADIA KRASTEVA
Soloists ENDRIK WOTTRICH and ANGEL HRISTOV and Ballet of the Sofia Opera
Conductor DIDIER TALPIN
Director, scenography and costumes HUGO DE ANA
LUDWIG MINKUS
HINDU DANCE – LA BAYADÈRE
Soloists: KRISTINA CHOCHANOVA, GEORGI ASPARUHOV, JOHN ABENANTY Ballet of the Sofia Opera
Choreography MARIUS PETIPA
Conductor PAVEL KLINICHEV
GIACOMO PUCCINI
TURANDOT
Aria of Turandot
Performed by CATHERINE FOSTER
Conductor GIORGIO PROIETTI
Director PLAMEN KARTALOFF
Scenography and Costumes IOANNA MANOLEDAKI
GIUSEPPE VERDI
REQUIEM
GERGANA RUSEKOVA mezzo-soprano
GABRIELA GEORGIEVA soprano
KAMEN CHANEV tenor
SAMI LUTTINEN bass
Conductor ERICH WÄCHTER
Chorus Master VIOLETA DIMITROVA
RICHARD WAGNER
PARSIFAL
Performed by KOSTADIN ANDREEV
Conductor CONSTANTIN TRINKS
Director PLAMEN KARTALOFF
LYUBOMIR PIPKOV
YANA’S NINE BROTHERS
Fragments
Performed by – Chorus of the Sofia Opera
Conductor ZHORZH DIMITROV
Director PLAMEN KARTALOFF
Chorus Master VIOLETA DIMITROVA
Scenography SVEN JONKE
Greeting by
KLAUS BILLAND – music critic
RICHARD WAGNER
DIE WALKÜRE
The Valkyries Ride
Performed by
Helmwige MILENA GYUROVA
Ortlinde IRINA ZHEKOVA
Gerhilde LYUBOV METODIEVA
Waltraute DIMITRINKA RAYCHEVA
Roßweiße TSVETA SARAMBELIEVA
Siegrune MARIELA ALEXANDROVA
Grimgerde MARGARITA DAMYANOVA
Schwertleite BLAGOVESTA MEKKI-TSVETKOVA
Ballet men’s ensemble of the Sofia Opera
Conductor PAVEL BALEV
Director PLAMEN KARTALOFF
Set/Costumes NIKOLAY PANAYOTOV
Multimedia GEORGI HRISTOV
Soloists, chorus, ballet and orchestra of the Sofia Opera
FINALE
Be embraced, you millions!
This kiss is for the whole world!
Brothers, above the canopy of stars
must dwell a loving father.
Do you bow down before Him, you millions?
Do you sense your Creator, O world?
Seek Him above the canopy of stars!
He must dwell beyond the stars.
From “To Joy” by Friedrich Schiller
VIDEO
TV1
Personal Archive
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Ivalina Vasileva
CAMERA
Peter Kostov and Chavdar Zhirov
EDITING
Miroslav Andreev, Peter Kostov and Chavdar Zhirov
Subtitles translation
Vladimir Gorchakov and Dimitar Bardarsky
Artistic Coordinator
Vera Beleva.
Director
Vera Petrova