Sofia

Sofia Opera’s spectacular staging of The Hermit of Rila is a spiritual and visual musical wonder

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BulgariaBulgaria Fr Kiril Popov, The Hermit of Rila: Soloists, Children’s Vocal and Theatre Formation (Dimitar Kostantsaliev, director), Chorus and Orchestra of Sofia Opera / Metropolitan of Stara Zagora Kyprian (conductor). Patriarchal Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky, Sofia, 26.7.2024. (GT)

Sofia Opera’s The Hermit of Rila © Svetoslav Nikolov-Chapi

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Sofia Opera’s revival of Das Rheingold has more colourful visual splendours backed by magnificent singing

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BulgariaBulgaria Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists, ‘Talasumche’ Children’s Vocal and Drama Foundation, Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Evan-Alexis Christ (conductor). Sofia Opera, 15.6.2024. (GT)

Sofia Opera and Ballet’s Das Rheingold

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Bulgaria’s first Lohengrin in forty years sensationally opens the 2024 Wagner Festival at Sofia Opera

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BulgariaBulgaria Wagner, Lohengrin: Soloists, Men’s Chorus of Bulgarian National Radio, Chorus and Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Constantin Trinks (conductor). Sofia Opera, 13.6.2024. (GT)

Sofia Opera’s Lohengrin Kostadin Andreev as Lohengrin and Tsvetana Bandalovska as Elsa [centre]

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Gregor Tassie in conversation with soprano Mariana Zvetkova

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The Bulgarian soprano Mariana Zvetkova talks to Gregor Tassie about her career One of the most outstanding singers from the 2023 Ring cycle in Sofia was the distinguished soprano Mariana Zvetkova. She has enjoyed a major worldwide career over several decades and was cast in the first Sofia Ring cycle in 2013 and was Fricka in Das Rheingold in Plamen Kartaloff’s … Read more