https://www.24chasa.bg/ojivlenie/article/6504574

Newspaper “24 chasa”, 20.10.2017, page 48

Plamen Kartaloff presents “Carmen” of the Sofia Opera in Japan

The upcoming on 3 November premiere of “Carmen” of the Sofia Opera and Ballet will be presented in October 2018 on a tour in Japan, together with “Turandot”, announced yesterday the stage director of both spectacles and Director of the Opera Plamen Kartaloff. This will be the seventh tour of the Opera in the Land of the Rising Sun.

At the premiere of “Carmen” the leading role will perform the world-known Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Nadia Krasteva, and in the next spectacles will appear Gergana Rusekova and the Serbian opera star Sanja Anastasia. Conductor at the premiere will be the young Japanese Keitaro Harada, who makes career in the USA, and after that the baton will take Grigor Palikarov.