The children’s Margaritki Opera and Ballet Studio, Stara Zagora Opera House, showed in Sofia the musical A Summer in a Swamp. Biologists Nia Toshkova …
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Le Corsaire (The Pirate), loosely based on the story of Lord Byron’s epic poem The Corsair, first presented by the Ballet of the Académie …
The premiere of the opera Carmen, based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée (librettists: Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy) was a failure in Paris. …
The twelfth edition of Bulgaria Dancing competition was held in the town of Dimitrovgrad, attracting non-professional and professional ballet schools alike such as the …
The company of Sofia Opera House has enjoyed over the recent decade an enviable new crop of soloists and additions to the repertoire of …
In two successive performances held in Pernik and Sofia of a show titled Equilibrium, two Bulgarian companies of street dances––hip-hop and break… …
Launched in May 2017 by Zhiten Klas press, it is a collector’s edition limited to 100 copies. It has been prepared 12 years as …
Following the premiere of Swan Lake ballet, Burgasians had a chance and the pleasure to enjoy the second of Tchaikovsky’s trilogy of ballets, The …
The holdings of the Archive and Research Center for the Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Paul Sacher Foundation based in Basel, a …
The final days (8–9 April 2017) of this year’s edition of Lucerne Festival at Easter were the event’s culmination with the programmes of the …
Ever since its first edition in March 1998, the festival has established itself as a creative lab of contemporary art and has for two …
An interview with the renowned Bulgarian pianist, composer and teacher, Prof. Yovcho Krushev on the occasion of his 60th anniversary …
Children’s operetta The Little Match Girl has been devised as the opening of The Music of Our Time trilogy to include also Ali Baba …
A full-length production of La Bayadère was put on Bulgarian stage for the first time as late as 2012. Until then, only excerpts from …
The 47th edition of the Festival of Opera and Ballet Arts (FOBA) commenced on 28 November 2016 at Stara Zagora Opera House. Mr. Ognian …
The quests to enrich, to upgrade and use dance and its purely physical expression as a therapeutic method eventually end up in the rhythm-plastic …
Sofia Opera and Ballet 2016/17 season opened with two of the most emblematic works by choreographer Mikhail (Michel) Fokine, premiered in Paris, in 1910/11 …
On 16 October 2016, the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFSEM), the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), hosted a public …
I first came in touch with the musical culture of Vietnam back in 2004, when I paid a guest visit to the capital Hanoi …
I believe the 40min series to be a boon to both the management and the concept of the Lucerne Festival, yet another series of …