A festive concert of the vocal studio "Kara" with vocal teacher Margarita Karagyozova is offered by the State Opera Stara Zagora on 19 December at 16.00 in the foyer of the Opera House. Beautiful and beloved arias and ensembles by Mozart, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Catalani, Boito, Gounod, Glinka, Tchaikovsky, popular and beloved songs by Caccini, Cesar Franck, De Failla, Schubert, Ramirez, Gounod, etc. They will be performed by Kamelia Stoycheva, Kremena Raicheva, Maria Koleva, Neli Necheva, Prolet Pencheva, Ralitsa Vassileva, Doichin Pervazov, Evgeny Surmiyevich, Ivan Kolev, Ilko Kamenov, Nikola Marulev, Peter Yankulov, Margarita Karagyozova. Piano accompanist Svetlana Deneva.
In 1996 Margarita Karagyozova opened a private school Lirica KARA in Genoa, where she teaches vocal technique to this day. Many of her students have won competitions and have been engaged in the operas of Genoa, Bologna, Bari, Venice, Nice, Palermo, Paris, Turin, etc.
Since 1 September 2014 she has been a vocal consultant and since this year a full-time vocal teacher at the State Opera-Stara Zagora. Margarita Karagyozova is the initiator of a NEW music education project - The Young and the Classical in Music.
Margarita Karagyozova was born in Stara Zagora into a family of musicians. She started as a pop singer at the age of 16. In 1984 she graduated from the Vocal Faculty of the Bulgarian State Conservatory with a specialty in opera singing in the class of Kostantsa Vachkova. She perfected her vocal technique with Reni Penkova - mezzo-soprano, then soloist at the Sofia National Opera.
In 1986 she went to Italy, where she works and lives to this day. In the country of BELCANTO she perfected her singing with Arigo Pola and Maestro Campogalliani. He attended the master classes of Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Magda Olivero and Gena Dimitrova. Winner of a competition for young talents, she made her debut in the roles of Madalena and Suzuki, under the protection of Il palcoscenico Scena impresario in Bari.
The singer's repertoire includes the roles of Ulrica /"Masked Ball"/, Emilia /"Otello"/, Madalena /"Rigoletto"/, Miss Quikli /"Falstaff"/ by Verdi, Suzuki /"Madame Butterfly" by Puccini/, Lola, Mamma Lucia /"Village Honour" by Mascagni/, Carmen, Mercedes /"Carmen" by Bizet/, Checca /"Gioconda" by Ponchielli/, Madlon /"André Chenier" by Giordano/, Countess /"Dame of Spades" by Tchaikovsky/, Olga /"Euget Onegin" by Tchaikovsky/, etc.
He has given numerous concerts throughout Europe, in Turkey and some Arab countries /Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia/. He performs chamber and church music, oratorios, ancient arias and ethnic music, Italian canzonetti by the following composers Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, De Failla, Ravel, Stradella, Monteverdi, Gluck, Prony, Tosti, De Curtis, Tchaikovsky, P. Khadzhiev, I. Marinov, D. Hristov, Prokofiev, etc.
She has sung with world-famous singers of the rank of Renato Bruzon, Luciana Serra, Mario Malanini, Carmela Apolonio, Francesca Franchi, Elena Andrea, Chevrian, LoJarro, Servile, M. Armiliato, etc.
She has worked with conductors and directors such as M Oren, M Franchi, M Anisimov, M Castriota, M Marvulli, C Visco, M Samale, Beppe de Tomasi, Cennaro, Fagioni, Colonello, etc.
Stara Zagora State Opera
19 December, Saturday, 16.00, Foyer-Opera Hall,
Concert of the Kara Vocal Studio
vocal teacher Margarita Karagyozova
Piano accompanist Svetlana Deneva
Programme
1. P.I. Tchaikovsky - Aria of Prince Gremin from op. "Eugene Onegin"
performed by Peter Yankulov
2. Carl Maria von Weber - Aria of Fatima from op. "Oberon"
performed by Lili Hodjeva
3. Caesar Franck - Panis Angelicus
performed by Doichin Pervazov
4. Camille Saint-Saëns - Aria of Delilah from op. "Samson and Delilah"
performed by Ralitsa Vassileva
5. Bellini - Aria of Rodolfo from op. "Somnambula"
performed by Nikola Marulev
6. G. Rossini - Aria of Berta from op. "The Barber of Seville"
performed by Kremena Raicheva
7. Ariel Ramirez - Misa Criolla
performed by Ivan Kolev
8. J. Caccini - Ave Maria
performed by Prolet Pencheva
9. M.I. Glinka - Aria of Susanin from the opera of the same name
performed by Evgeny Surmiyevich
10. S. Rachmaninoff - "Don't sing, beautiful, to me"
performed by Neli Necheva
11. W.A.Mozart - Ottavio's aria from op. "Don Giovanni"
performed by Ilko Kamenov
12. Charles Gounod - Ave Maria
performed by choir
13. Alfredo Catalani - Aria of Vali from the opera of the same name
performed by Kamelia Stoycheva
14. Arrigo Boito - Margarita's aria from op. "Faust"
performed by Prolet Pencheva
15. M. de Faija - "Nana" - Lullaby from the cycle 7 Spanish Folk Songs
performed by Margarita Karagyozova
16. Schubert - Ave Maria
performed by Nelly Necheva and choir