/CROSS/ It will be officially opened on 9 October 2020 with the opera “Yana’s Nine Brothers” by the composer Lyubomir Pipkov, author of the libretto is Nikola Veselinov. With the most Bulgarian opera, as defined by the music critics in Bulgaria and in the world, will be set the beginning of a season, which will pass under the sign of marking the 130th Anniversary of the Sofia Opera and Ballet.
“Yana’s Nine Brothers” is an opera, revealing the eternal problems of our being – goodness, talent, striving for creation of beauty, envy and spite, betrayal, destruction of the created beauty. This is a spectacle, saturated with the meaning of national culture and with elements of the impulsiveness of the modern world with a plot, telling about the events from the 14th century during the time of the Ottoman domination in Bulgaria. All this inspired Lyubomir Pipkov to write his opera, when he was student in Paris.
“I wanted to see the past of my people from contemporary positions, to reveal the right of a life, full with wisdom, experience and faith in the future”, shared Lyubomir Pipkov about his work of art.
Having produced the opera “Yana’s Nine Brothers” in 1984 in Ruse, 34 years later the spectacle’s stage director – Academician Plamen Kartaloff input in it new ideas, which the audience will have the possibility to see – like the one about the cosmic role of the tree – symbol of life, keeper of values, family memory and traditions. Maestro Kartaloff marked that the included in a part of the production authentic costumes and mummer’s and babuger’s masks are interpreted as symbols and images of the people’s fate and the fight with the historical evil.
The opera “Yana’s Nine Brothers” was performed with great success on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, during the guest-performances of the Sofia Opera and Ballet in Moscow in 2018, and at the opening of the First summer festival “Portal of the Two Worlds” in August this year at the antique Tsari Mali Grad Fortress in the Samokov Region.
Stage director is Academician Plamen Kartaloff, conductor – Zhorzh Dimitrov, set designer –Sven Jonke, costume designer – Stanka Vauda, choreographer – Riolina Topalova, chorus master – Violeta Dimitrova.
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