On 10 April, at 11 h, at the Sofia Opera and Ballet took place the press conference, dedicated to the premiere of the ballet “Tango” by the Argentinian musician Astor Piazzolla. At the press conference was present H.E. Alfredo Néstor Atanasof, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in Bulgaria. The ballet “Tango” is dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of Astor Piazzolla and it is produed under the patronage of H.E. Alfredo Néstor Atanasof.
About his work and about their roles at the press conference told Marta Petkova, Nikola Hadzhitanev, Boryana Petrova and others. The Artistic director of the ballet of the Sofia Opera, Sara-Nora Krysteva, revealed that this production will be most exactly magic, which would transfer the spectators in Argentina and would attract them for a long time to the tango dance.
Acad. Plamen Kartaloff with H.E. Alfredo Néstor Atanasof, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in Bulgaria
The choreographer of the ballet “Tango”, Svetlin Ivelinov pointed out the most characteristic for the production:
“A sudden, unexpected, touching impulse: passion, power, love. A love, stirring up expectations, opening a way – unsuspected and unknown. Events follow, evoked by desires for resistance and irreconcilability, inevitably influenced by real and supernatural images, interweaved into the web of life.”
H.E. Alfredo Néstor Atanasof, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in Bulgaria, shared about the production of “Tango”:
“In the attitude of the Bulgarian audience I feel great interest in Argentinean culture and more specially in tango. In Bulgaria there are a lot of schools, in which is taught tango, and there are musicians, who play tango. This is why I think that the ballet TANGO will be a real cultural event, and we, Argentinians, shall be forever grateful that so far away from our motherland you will pay honour to a composer of the importance of Astor Piazzolla.”
In “Tango” take part:
Marta Petkova, Kristina-Chochanova-Ivanova, Nikola Hadzhitanev, John Abenanty, Boryana Petrova, Venera Hristova, Emil Yordanov, Tsetso Ivanov, Aleksandar Aleksandrov, Kristian Manev, Nikola Arnaudov, Sofia Tsutsakova-Abenanty, Vyara Ivancheva, Milena Todorova, Elena Petrova, Mina-Vasilia Stoyanova, Teodor Vodenicharov, Georgi Asparuhov, Georgi Banchev.
Artistic Director of the Ballet: Sara=Nora Krysteva
Production team:
Assistant Choreographer – Antoaneta Aleksieva, Set Designer – Boris Stoynev, Costume Designer – Hristiana Mihaleva-Zorbalieva, Repetiteurs – Maria Ilieva, Yasen Valchanov, Trifon Mitev