An impressive finale of the premiere performances of the opera “Falstaff” by Giuseppe Verdi
05 Mar 2025Sofia Opera and Ballet

An impressive finale of the premiere performances of the opera “Falstaff” by Giuseppe Verdi

Four evenings in a row, the audience in the overfilled hall long applauded the Sofia Opera artists, orchestra and choir, under the conductorship of Grigor Palikarov.

Starring in the Sunday performance: Lucio Gallo as Sir John Falstaff; Atanas Mladenov as Ford; Milla Mihova as Alice Ford; Maria Pavlova as Nannetta; Rino Matafu as Fenton; Vesela Yaneva as Missis Quickly; Alexandrina Stoyanova-Andreeva as Meg Page; Angel Antonov as Doctor Caius; Plamen Dimov-Grandzhan as Bardolph; Nikolay Voinov as Pistola.

Production director: Marco Gandini; scenography by Italo Grassi; costumes by Anna Biagiotti.

With the participation of the Sofia Opera orchestra and choir; choir conductor: Violeta Dimitrova.

Concertmasters: Maria Evstatieva and Slava Atanasova.

Score tutorship by Pelagia Cherneva, Denitsa Petrova, Stoyan Martinov, Svetlana Ananievska.

Assistant director: Teodor Georgiev; assistant to the director: Stefka Georgieva.