World tenor Zoran Todorovic for the first time in Bulgaria
News публикувана на: 21.08.2017
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World tenor Zoran Todorovic for the first time in Bulgaria
On 26 August at 21.00 the Stara Zagora Opera will present two of its finest productions at the Summer Season of the Bulgarian Opera Theatres "Stage of the Ages" 2017: the opera "Village Honour" by Mascagni and the ballet "The Delvata" to music by Alfredo Casella. Veliko Tarnovo's citizens and guests will have the opportunity to applaud on the open stage of the historic Tsarevets Hill in Veliko Tarnovo the world tenor Zoran Todorovic in the role of Turidu in the opera "Village Honour". The great Serbian singer is visiting Bulgaria for the first time at the invitation of the artistic director of the Stara Zagora Opera opera prima Veselina Katsarova. In the performance of the opera "Rural Honour" he will be partnered by the star soloists Elena Barumova /in the role of Santuzza/, Ivaylo Djurov - Alfio, Petya Petrova - Lola, Evdokia Zdravkova-Khorozova will be Mamma Lucia. The choir and orchestra of the State Opera-Stara Zagora will participate. Conductor Ivaylo Krinchev, director Ignazio Occhipinti /Italy/. The author of the set and the costumes is the world-renowned Italian artist Salvatore Russo. Conductor of the choir Mladen Stanev.
Born in Belgrade, Serbia, ZORAN TODOROVIC received international acclaim after his debut as the Duke of Mantua at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, followed immediately by engagements at various prestigious opera houses. He performed the title role in The Mercy of Titus in Madrid and the role of Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly in Vienna and Berlin, Alfred in La Traviata in Hamburg and Lensky in Eugene Onegin in Brussels, Frankfurt, Nice and Tokyo. He has made numerous guest appearances at leading opera houses such as the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper-Berlin, Théâtre Royal la Monnaie in Brussels, Vienna State Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Capitole Theatre in Toulouse, Marseille Opera, Saxon State Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, as well as the Bregenz Festival and the National Theatre in Tokyo.
His extensive repertoire includes most of the landmark roles for the dramatic tenor, and in 2009 he added his first Wagnerian role, the title role in Lohengrin at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, to great acclaim. Zoran Todorovic began the 2010/2011 season with his debut as André Chenier from Giordano's opera of the same name at the Marseille Opera. He returns to Teatro Massimo in Palermo as Dick Johnson from Puccini's The Girl from the Golden West, then sings the part of John for the first time in Masne's Herodias, a production of the Flemish Opera in Ghent and Antwerp. Todorovic made a guest appearance at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in the role of Pollione in Norma, where he sang with Edith Gruberova. They are also partners in Roberto Devereux in concert in Warsaw.
Zoran Todorovic also performed the roles of Ishmael in concert performances of Nabucco in Brussels and Pinkerton from Madame Butterfly in Tokyo.
In September 2011, he was appointed the director of the Polish National Theatre. Todorovic returns to the Geneva Opera, where he had previously achieved great success as Manrico in Il trovatore in 2009, for a new production of André Chenier.
He then made his debut at the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris as Don Alvaro in Verdi's The Power of Destiny. His engagements also included his debut at the Gran Teatro Liceo in Barcelona in the same role and in performances of the operas The Girl of the Golden West and Francesca da Rimini for the Opéra de Monte Carlo. Todorovic has also guest-starred in the roles of Thuridu in The Village Honour and Canio in Pagliacci at the Zurich Opera.
In 2013, he added new Wagner and new Verdi roles to his repertoire: Ramades in Aida in Marseille and Parsifal from Wagner's opera of the same name at the Flemish Opera.
In the following seasons (2014/2015) he sang Fidelio from Beethoven's opera of the same name in Liège, Otello in concert in Antwerp/Ghent, The Tragedy of Florence in Turin and at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo with Maestro Pinka Steinberg.
Todorovic also performed the role of Dick Johnson in the new production of The Girl of the Golden West at the Zurich Opera House with Maestro Marco Armiliato, Pagliacci in Moscow and Düsseldorf, Don José in Carmen and Calaf in the new production of Turandot at the Deutsche Oper Rhein-Düsseldorf, "The Swallow in Tel Aviv with Angela Georgiou (with whom he sang at a gala concert in Baden-Baden), and The Power of Destiny in Tokyo, as well as in the new production of King Arthur at the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris with Maestro Filipe Jordan. In the following seasons (2016/2017) he will have his stage debut in the new production of Otello at the Deutsche Oper Rhein.
Zoran Todorovic - Turidu's aria from the opera Village Honour - video
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