The glitter of sequins, jazz, a waterfall of champagne, dollars and flowers, the aroma of cigars and Coco Chanel. The year is 1925. Francis Stockt Fitzgerald paid cash with "The Great Gatsby"'s money to ransom and transport midnight Paris, with its artists, street performers, and doomed lovers, to New York, and turn it, for some 250 pages, into a never-ending feast or vanity fair.

Nearly 100 years later, "The Great Gatsby" is no longer a book, a movie or a performance, but an era. It is the one in which the staff of the Sofia Opera chooses to transport us through the premiere of the ballet, named after the American novel and choreographed by Leo Mujić.

The premiere of "The Great Gatsby" is on 12 April at the Sofia Opera and Ballet. There are only seven performances – 12, 13, 14, 25, 26, 27 and 28 April.