The celebration of Raina Kabaivanska’s 90th anniversary ended with three performances of “Adriana Lecouvreur” by Francesco Cilea.
On the 17th and 19th of January, singers from Raina Kabaivanska’s school at New Bulgarian University took part in the main roles: Vitoria Leo as Adriana, Veronica Simeoni as Princess de Buillon, Giuseppe Infantino as count Mauricio and He Kang as Michonet; all of them are established singers with an international career.
On the 18th of January we saw Gabriela Georgieva, Gergana Rusekova, Kostadin Andreev, Ventseslav Anastasov and Biser Georgiev. Also starring: Stefan Vladimirov, Petar Buchkov, Angel Hristov, Silvana Pravcheva, Alexandrina Stoyanova-Andreeva, Tsveta Sarambelieva, Angel Antonov. With the participation of the Sofia Opera orchestra, corps de ballet lead dancers and choir (choir conductor: Violeta Dimitrova) under the conductorship of Francesco Rosa.