Endless applauses of the audience resounded for a long time on Lake Pancharevo in the summer evening on 24 July.

The exclamations “Bravo” of the audience echoed back in the summer evening. It was as if it didn’t want to part from the magic of the witnessed performance, from the suggestion of the fairy production of  “Das Rheingold” from Richard Wagner’s tetralogy “Der Ring des Nibelungen”.

A production, born ten years ago, having stood the test of time, applauded not only in Bulgaria, but also in Germany, on the stage in Füssen and on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.

A production, in which the creator of the Bulgarian Ring, the stage director Acad. Plamen Kartaloff with his far-seeing counted on the young singers. A real feat, which cultivated the Bulgarian Wagner singers, created the new Bulgarian Universe, with the different vocal and artistic suggestion. And they, the young ones were growing more and more each year, together with the whole ensemble. One can say that this is one imposing army, which wins new and new admirers.

Here, on Lake Pancharevo, “Das Rheingold” was granted a new life. A new dimension, a new suggestion was born. The director’s imagination of Plamen Kartaloff embraces the natural environment, it includes it in the plot. Something, which provokes also the artists and adds a new flavour in the actor’s behaviour. I will not comment the complexity of the technical realization, sound making, etc. Something, which remains in the kitchen of the creation, but which has to be known for the exceptional contribution of this part of the unusual army of our first opera theatre, one trained team, having stood the test of time.

For the suggestion of the entire spectacle of great importance is the multimedia, for which is responsible Vera Petrova, as well as the vision of the set and costume designer Nikolay Panayotov.

Inspired and charged with the new energy of the production of “Das Rheingold”, born in the embrace of Lake Pancharevo, each artist imported something new in his or her performance, an emotion, which as if really enchanted the audience.

Lead characters in this event are Martin Tsonev, Biser Georgiev, Daniel Ostretsov, Krasimir Dinev, Svetozar Rangelov, Stefan Vladimirov, Petar Buchkov, Hrisimir Damyanov, Rumyana Petrova, Silvana Pravcheva, Blagovesta Mekki-Tsvetkova, Ayla Dobreva, Ina Petrova, Aleksandrina Stoyanova-Andreeva, together with the orchestra under the baton of Maestro Erich Wächter. They created this exceptional adventure in the programme “Muses of Water”.
The magic, which can experience also the ones, who will be with Sofia Opera and Ballet on 25 July at 21.00 h.

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