CHRISTMAS CONCERT on 23 December at the Opera House
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"THE CHILDREN OF OLD ZAGORA ON THE STAGES OF EUROPE"
CHRISTMAS CONCERT on 23 December at the Opera House
The festive December programme of the State Opera Stara Zagora continues with a Christmas concert. On 23 December at 19.00 on the stage of the Opera will be heard Christmas songs, choruses, arias and duets, selected fragments of works by Handel, Bach, Gluck, Vardi, Puccini, Smetana, Bourne and others.
Special guest of the Christmas concert of the State Opera-Stara Zagora is the young flautist Desislava Dobreva, born in Stara Zagora and already with a successful career in Europe. Pierre Calabria from Italy will stand at the conductor's podium. His was the musical direction of the first concert of the series "The Children of Stara Zagora on the Stages of Europe" on 24 November at the Opera House with the young violinist Valerie Draganova as soloist.
The Christmas concert also featured soloists Elena Barumova, Mihaela Berova, Neli Necheva, the Stara Zagora State Opera Choir and Orchestra.
Desislava Dobreva will be the soloist in Brilliant Fantasy Carmen by François Bourne and Dance of the Blessed Spirits from the opera Orfeo et Eurydice by Gluck.
DESISLAVA DOBREVA was born in Stara Zagora, graduated from the NUMSY "Christina Morfova" in 2005. In 2012 she graduated with honors in the Master's degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, in the flute class of Professor Barbara Gisler-Haze. She studied for one semester at the Paris Conservatoire under Vincent Lucca /solo flutist of the Orchestre de Paris/ in the Erasmus Programme. In the years 2012-2014 he was in the flute class of Karl-Heinz Schutz /solo flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/. He has participated and won numerous prizes in international competitions and performed in many European countries as well as in Japan and China. He actively participates in concerts of the Live Music Nau Foundation, founded by Sir Yehudi Menuhin. She has attended masterclasses with Philippe Bernold, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Andras Adorian, Felix Rengli, Patrick Galois and others. She is a recipient of the Werner Tripp Foundation, Tokyo Foundation and Weffelscheid Foundation.
Currently, Desislava Dobreva teaches flute at the Allegro Vivace Private Music School in Vienna and at the J.G. Albrechtsberger State Music School in Klosterneuburg. She is the founder of the "1,2,Trio" /flute, cello and piano/ with which in 2013 they were finalists and prize winners of the Fidelio Competition in Vienna.
Her passion for chamber music has also brought her together with the wind quintet "qWINDett", with whom she has made numerous appearances, including at the prestigious Salzburg Festival under the direction of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and they have also given a recital at the Musikverein.
She has played in orchestras including the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna National Opera, the Klagenfurt National Theatre, the Baden Symphony Orchestra, the Mozart Orchestra, the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Baden National Theatre.
Names of conductors she has worked with include Franz-Welser Most, Philipp Jordan, Christoph Eschenbach, Ingo Metzmacher, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Eschwe, Antonello Manacorda.