Opening of the season with DON CARLOS
News публикувана на: 08.10.2017
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Stara Zagora State Opera opens its opera season with "Don Carlos"
Stara Zagora State Opera will open its opera season with the premiere of the opera "Don Carlos" by Giuseppe Verdi. The new performance is based on Giuseppe Verdi's last reworking, made at the end of his creative career /way before he wrote the opera "Falstaff"/. The great Italian composer worked all his life on this title. He edited the opera four times, finally returning the scene to the forest of Fontainebleau so that the main conflict of the opera could be clarified. It is this rarely staged and worldwide full-length version of Verdi's masterpiece that the audience will enjoy on October 19 and 26, at 7 p.m. on the stage of the Stara Zagora Opera House. Conductor Ivaylo Krinchev, director Slavcho Nikolov. Set design Todor Demerov, costume designer Tsvetanka Petkova-Stoynova. Assistant conductor Dimitar Kossev, conductor of the choir Mladen Stanev.
A constellation of operatic voices participated in the two premiere performances.
On 19 October, the tenor Ivan Momirov takes the role of Don Carlos. The role of King Philip will be performed by bass Julian Konstantinov. The young opera singer Velina Bozhilova, born in Stara Zagora, will make her debut in the role of Elizabeth Valois . Miroslava Yordanova will play the role of Princess Eboli. And baritone Alexander Krunev will celebrate his 30th anniversary on stage in the role of the Marquis of Posa.
On 26 October the Stara Zagora audience will see for the second time Veselina Katsarova in an opera performance - after "Carmen" at the Beroe Stadium, this time the opera diva will perform in the role of Princess Eboli. The role of Don Carlos will be played by Kaludi Kaludov, and Elizabeth Valois will be played by Tsvetelina Vassileva. Plamen Kumpikov will make his debut as King Philip II, Dimitar Stanchev as the Grand Inquisitor and French baritone Cyrille Rovery as the Marquis de Pose.
Also taking part are the soloists Alexander Marulev, Yanitsa Nesheva, Desi Stefanova, Ivaylo Yovchev, Milko Mikhailov, Evgeny Arabadzhiev and others, the choir and orchestra of the State Opera-Stara Zagora.