The forthcoming spectacle of the opera "Die Walküre", with which the Sofia Opera and Ballet is a guest at the "May Opera Evenings", was presented at the event.
At the press conference were Vaso Ristov – Director of the Skopje National Opera and Ballet, the artistic director Orce Itskovski, Antonia Veleva – Director of the Cultural Information Centre of the Republic of Bulgaria in the Republic of North Macedonia, Acad. Plamen Kartaloff – Director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet and conductor Evan-Alexis Christ.
"The opera "Die Walküre" on Saturday – the first spectacular edition of Wagner" – notes "RACIN.mk".
"The grand epic musical drama "Die Walküre" by the famous German composer Richard Wagner, produced by the Sofia Opera and Ballet, is a guest at the 52nd May Opera Nights on Saturday. This will be an opportunity for the Macedonian audience to hear and see for the first time on the stage of our National Opera and Ballet, a complete work by Wagner," reported Sotir Trajkov on Telma TV.
"The best opera singers from the Sofia Opera and Ballet, the entire orchestra and the entire technical team are coming to Skopje for the performance of the opera "Valkyrie"" - adds the information the website "Sakam da Kazam".
"Wagner will be heard for the first time in Northern Macedonia – "Die Walküre" with premieres by the Sofia Opera and Ballet at the May Opera Nights. The German composer was the most influential musician of his era after Beethoven, reinventing opera and paving the way for musical modernism," wrote the newspaper "Nezavisim".
"Within the framework of the 52nd edition of May Opera Nights, the grand opera "Die Walküre" by Richard Wagner will be performed for the first time on an opera stage in RS Macedonia by the soloists, orchestra, chourus and ballet of the Sofia Opera and Ballet" – "Tribuna.mk" informed its readers.
The director of the National Opera and Ballet in Skopje, Vaso Ristov, pointed out at the press conference that the visit of the Sofia Opera and Ballet had been arranged last year and announced that there was great audience interest in the spectacle.
"For this guest-performance Maestro Kartaloff and I started preparations last year, during the 51st edition of May Opera Nights, when he was my guest. We came up with the idea of Sofia Opera and Ballet participating in the 52nd May Opera Nights. Well, it happened. These days they are visiting us, and on Saturday we will have a great spectacle, which has had extraordinary interest from the audience, and I think the tickets are already running out," Ristov added.
"I would like to say that it is a great pleasure and honour for us to receive the guests from Sofia. To hear Wagner for the first time in North Macedonia is a privilege for all of us, especially for the audience, as there has never been a complete Wagner performance in the country before and this will be a spectacular edition for our May Opera Nights," said Orce Itskovski, Artistic Director of the National Opera and Ballet in Skopje.
