Alida Boneva - "40 years devoted to ballet"
News публикувана на: 26.09.2017
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On October 3, 2017 at 7 p.m. in the hall of Stara Zagora State Opera we will celebrate together the anniversary of the prima ballerina, teacher and long-time leader of the ballet company of the Stara Zagora Opera Alida Boneva. The respectful "40 years devoted to ballet" will be celebrated with the performance of the ballet "Cinderella" to music by Sergei Prokofiev, staged and directed by Alida Boneva. Set and costume design by Teodora Dzhambazova, multimedia by Plamen Asenov, music by Alexander Tumangelov. The production features the Stara Zagora State Opera Ballet and the Children and Youth School of Opera and Ballet "Daisies" under the direction of Radost Mladenova-Arabadjieva.
The fairy tale "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault is one of the most used works for music and stage. Operas by Rossini, Massenet, Wolf-Ferrari, and Naiden Gerov have been based on it. Ballet masterpieces based on this fairy-tale story are not few. Even Tchaikovsky was asked to write a ballet based on Cinderella, but the project remained unfulfilled. Prokofiev began to write the ballet Cinderella in the spring of 1941, commissioned by the S. М. Kirov". World War II and the invasion of Hitler's Russia hampered Prokofiev's work, evacuations and difficult years followed, yet when the invaders were repulsed to the west and Prokofiev returned to Moscow, he managed to finish the ballet's music and the Bolshoi Theatre included it in its poster for the 1944-1945 season with choreographer Rostislav Zakharov. At the first performances, Olga Lepeshinskaya and Galina Ulanova danced the role of Cinderella. Dmitri Shostakovich hailed the ballet's appearance saying, "Cinderella continues and develops worthily the glorious traditions of Russian ballet art."
During her active career as a ballet dancer, Alida Boneva has performed in over 2000 performances in the classical and contemporary ballet repertoire.In the very first years of her ballet career, she was a soloist in the production of Laurencia under the direction of the world-famous Georgian ballet dancer and ballet director Vakhtang Chabukiani. Next came Chabukiani's Don Quixote, Cipollino, The Three-Cornered Hat and Nestinarka directed by prof. Peter Lukanov, "Bolero", "Rhapsody in Blue", "Sailors on the Shore", "My Fair Lady" and "Andalusia" with the director Gerhard Petzold / with whom he later graduated from the Academy of Dance Art Paluka Schule, Dresden /, "Rivals" by Nedelcho Izov, "The Little Things of Life", "Love Magic" and "We Are the World" by Mikhail Motovilov, "The Three Musketeers" by Anelia Yaneva, "Storm" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Irena Inkyova, "Non stop" by Hikmet Mehmedov, "Jamboure" and "Rhapsody in Blue" by Nedko Boshnakov, "Straussiana", "Starry Moment", "Merry Weekend", "Jan Bibiyan", and more, and more.....
One of the next challenges is the participation in the production "Ball in Savoy", where the role is singing and dancing. His performance in "Angara", a production by Igor Chernyshov in 1988, led to a special invitation from him to perform at his 50th anniversary in Kuibyshev the following year.
In 1994 he founded a ballet school at the Centre for Work with Children in Stara Zagora. Under her guidance children won prestigious awards at national competitions for classical and modern ballet. Quite deservedly on May 24, 2000 she was awarded by the Municipality of Stara Zagora as "Teacher of the Year" for her work in the ballet school.
In 1998 she graduated from the Academy of Music and Dance Art - Plovdiv, with the specialties of ballet directing, ballet master-rehearsal and ballet pedagogy.
From 2004 to 2016 he was artistic director of the ballet company of the Stara Zagora Opera. He has realized a number of ballet productions in the opera and operetta repertory, as well as in the Drama Theatre Stara Zagora and Yambol, the Musical Theatre - Sofia. In 2006 she was awarded the Silver Lyre for overall artistic activity by the Union of Musical Artists in Bulgaria.