Christmas Concert at the Opera House
News публикувана на: 17.12.2015
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Christmas Concert at the Opera House
/musical magic for young and old/
On the eve of the Christmas holidays, on 23 December, at 19.00, the State Opera Stara Zagora will offer its audience a festive concert filled with the most infectious Christmas inspiration.
Overture from the opera "Wilhem Tell" by Rossini, Waltz of the Flowers from the ballet "The Nutcracker", Polonaise from the opera "Eugene Onegin" and Dances from the ballet "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky, The Seasons by Vivaldi, Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony, as well as Hallelujah from Handel's oratorio "Messiah" - are the main part of the program of the Christmas concert. There will also be Christmas carols - traditional and original, with the special participation of the Choir of NUMSI "Hr. Morfova" with conductor Stefka Minkova.
Magic happens to those who expect it!
With this concert the choir and orchestra of the State Opera Stara Zagora present their Christmas gift to all fans of classical music.
Special guest conductor is Shungo Moriyama from Japan.
Shungo Moriyama has been a regular guest conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic since 2006. He made his conducting debut in 1977, his first overseas tour was to Bulgaria as a guest of the Sofia Philharmonic in 1986, followed by numerous tours. From 1990 his contacts with New Zealand began - he conducted the Youth Orchestra and the Christian Church Symphony Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in 1994, and was the first Japanese conductor to be invited for a full season with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. He has specialised in conducting ballets of Russian original choreographic versions with Konstantin Sergeyev, the leading conductor of the Russian Ballet Academy of the Mariinsky Theatre.
He conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the MAV Orchestra - Hungary, with an international choir from Hungary, Poland, Germany, Austria and Japan, during the European Picnic Memorial Ceremony in Sopron (Hungary) in 1997, a concert which was broadcast by the Hungarian Duna TV for all European countries.
After the performance of Swan Lake at the Mussorgsky Theatre, he was invited for four years as principal guest conductor of the St. Petersburg Congress Orchestra. He received the diploma of Honorary Member of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Society in 2000 after the successful performance of the Ninth Symphony in the Great Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, and two years later he was invited to conduct a concert on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Philharmonic Society. He has also conducted performances of the Japanese Ballet at the Alexandria Theatre in St Petersburg, the Drama Theatre in Pskov and the Academic Theatre in Novgorod on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg in 2003.
His performance of the Taketori Story Concerto and the Buddha Symphony by Koichi Kishi in 2002 was a huge success. He became particularly popular with his performance of the Buddha Symphony in front of the statue of the Great Buddha at Todaiji Temple in Nara, in memory of the monk Kokai who restored this world cultural monument.
Since 1997, he has annually organized a concert with Japanese soloists during the Sofia Music Weeks, and since 2004 he has conducted an orchestral workshop with the Sofia Philharmonic.
This year on 31 October Shungo Moriyama conducted the final concert of the winners of the 5th International Competition for Young Violinists "Emil Kamilarov" in Sofia.