In the category "Ballet Art" - Collective Award, the Ballet of the State Opera Stara Zagora was awarded the Crystal Lyre for the performance of the ballet "Don Quixote", which premiered on 27 November 2018.
Come on December 17 in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture to see Don Quixote performed by the Stara Zagora Ballet together with outstanding stars Yana Salenko and Marianne Walter!
YANA SALENKO - the prima ballerina of the Staatsballett-Berlin, has danced on the most prestigious stages in the world, including the Staatsoper-Berlin, the Royal Ballet of Great Britain and the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg. She is a popular guest at various festivals, and has won many first prizes in ballet. The ballerina has twice received the Miss Virtuosity Award at the prestigious Dance Open Festival in St. Petersburg. A talented graduate of Vadim Pisarev's Donetsk Ballet School, Yana Salenko first took to the stage as a professional ballerina in 2000. Today, her repertoire includes starring roles in the best classical ballets, as well as neo-classical and contemporary choreography.
MARIANN WALTER is a premier soloist of the Staatsballett-Berlin, winner of ballet competitions in Vienna, Helsinki, Nagoya, winner of the Deutscher Tanzpreis Zukunft Award, nominated for the Benois de la Danse Award.