"Stars of the Future"
News публикувана на: 31.03.2016
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Maria Klincheva presents Gergana Rusekova
In the new matinee of Stara Zagora Opera "The Stars of the Future"
On April 2, 2016 a star in the sky will officially bear the names of two earth stars - Maria Klincheva and Gergana Rusekova. The former is a long-standing Prima of the Stara Zagora Opera from its recent past. The second - a young, very talented and promising opera mezzo-soprano. The right to the name of the star is owned by the Stara Zagora State Opera and is confirmed by an official Certificate, an international model approved by the Chairman of the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics. A star in the sky will receive the names of two very beautiful and very talented ladies of Stara Zagora Opera.
The new edition of the popular Saturday matinees at the Opera House is called "Stars of the Future" and starts on April 2 at 11 am in the Opera House lobby. Maria Klincheva will present her young colleague and new hope of the Opera - Gergana Rusekova. You will hear performances by Gergana and guest Ekaterina Stancheva, accompanied by pianist Denitsa Petrova. More surprises await you, as can always be expected from the stars, because they are both predictable and unpredictable.
On 23 April /Saturday/ at 11 am in the second edition of the matinee "The Stars of the Future" the opera prima Christina Angelakova will present Rusalina Mochukova - a soloist with an exceptional voice and radiance, the pride of Stara Zagora Opera.
A little about the big stars Maria Klincheva and Gergana Rusekova:
On November 7 last year Maria Klincheva was presented in the Saturday matinee "Emotion and Love at the Opera. Maria Klincheva NMA "Prof. She is a graduate of the Pancho Vladigerov Academy of Music in Siena, Italy and the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. She has performed over 40 roles from European and Bulgarian classics at the Stara Zagora Opera. For her high artistic achievements in 2013 she deservedly received the Stara Zagora Award.
Gergana Rusekova /mezzo-soprano/ was first introduced to the Stara Zagora audience on 17 March 2015, when she participated in a piano concert in the foyer of the Opera House. In May 2015 Gergana made her successful debut in the role of Azucena in Verdi's opera Il Trovatore on the stage of the Stara Zagora Opera. For the first time, the audience saw her on 30 October 2015 on the stage of the Opera in the role of Carmen from Georges Bizet's opera of the same name. For the first time in a comic role, Gergana took part in the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro by W.A. Mozart on 23 January this year in the role of Marcellina.
The singer's repertoire also includes leading roles from Verdi's Don Carlos, Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, and Bizet's Carmen from the opera of the same name, as well as the solo parts from Mozart and Verdi's Requiem, Rossini's Little Sunny Mass and Little Solemn Mass, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Haydn's Nelson Mass, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, etc.
"She is a deeply soulful performer, the power of her voice is part of the psychological construction of the image. Gergana sings with the ease of a well-trained performer who has "apprenticed" not accidentally with great names of the operatic art. She is charming and wins the audience's sympathies with her behaviour," writes Donka Iotova in the National Business Mail.
GERGANA RUSEKOVA was born in Pazardzhik. In 2005 she graduated in opera singing at the National Academy of Music "Prof. G. Rousseva". She graduated in 2005 from Pancho Vladigerov Opera School in Sofia. She has been working with Associate Professor Konstantsa Vachkova (from 2006 until now). She specialized in the master classes of prof. Jeffrey Gaul - first countertenor of the Metropolitan Opera, teacher at Curtis, Philadelphia, Valery Rifkin /conductor at Los Angeles Opera/ and singers.
In 2006, Gergana Rusekova was a graduate student at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, under the direction of Claudia Pinza, Genko Geshev, Susanna Lemberskaya and Jonathan Lawson. She was awarded a special prize and a scholarship to study in the USA at the 2005 Puldin International Competition for Young Opera Singers. In 2006 she was a prize-winner at the Hristo Brumbarov Competition. In 2007 he won a scholarship to the Ezio Pinza International Summer Academy for Young Opera Singers EPCASO 2007 and worked with conductor Maurizio Arena, Maria Chiara /soprano/, Enza Ferrari /principal accompanist of Teatro "La Scalla"/, Gianni Cappelletto /principal accompanist of Teatro Lirico-Treviso/ and Maria Pavan /co-repétiteur of Teatro "La Scalla"- Milan/. In May 2009 he won the Grand Prize of the European Competition for Young Classical Music Performers "The Crown of Tarnovgrad"-V.Tarnovo and the award of the Bulgarian National Radio, namely recordings and concerts with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra. In June 2009 he won the third prize at the National Competition for Young Opera Singers "Gena Dimitrova"-Pleven. In October 2009 she won third prize at the International Competition of Young Opera Singers "Ritorna Vincitor"- Ercolano, Italy and the special prize of the competition - participation in the production of "Tosca" in the role of Tosca.
In 2010, she toured Spain and France in the roles of Santuzza from Mascagni's "Village Honor" and Salud from De Faye's "Short Life". In the 2011-2012 season, she made her debut on the stage of the Sofia Opera and Ballet in the role of Tosca from Puccini's opera of the same name and in the role of Santuzza from Mascagni's opera The Village Honour. In November 2012 she took part in the traditional tour of Sofia Opera in Japan with performances of Puccini's Tosca and Mascagni's La Homage rustica. In the same season he made studio recordings at the Bulgarian National Radio. In the 2013-2014 season she made her debut in the role of Amneris from Verdi's opera Aida, a production by the world-famous Argentine artist and director Hugo De Ana, co-produced by Sofia Opera and Arena di Verona, Italy.