"La Traviata" at the Burgas Opera

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46th Festival of Opera and Ballet Art-Stara Zagora`2015

Day Four

The eternal "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi in an original and provocative performance of the Burgas Opera

Thanks to the different staging and stage vision, the Stara Zagora audience will see on November 26, at 19.00 on the stage of the Stara Zagora Opera a familiar story of love, but with a much stronger charge. The performance is directed by the director of the State Opera Burgas Alexander Tekeliev, and the sets and costumes are the work of the famous Romanian set designer Catalin Arbore. The premiere of "La Traviata" took place with deserved spectacular success on June 19 this year at the Burgas Opera. In Stara Zagora , the Burgas "La Traviata" will visit with its premiere soloists, chorus, ballet and orchestra of the State Opera Burgas. In the roles of the roadless Violetta and her beloved Alfred we will see Veselina Vassileva and Daniel Damyanov. Georges Germont, Alfred's father, will be portrayed by Marjan Jovanoski. Maestro Ivan Kozhuharov is the conductor of the performance, Nevena Mihailova is the choirmaster. Concertmaster is Yordan Kovachev. The choreography is by the prima ballerina of the Opera Galina Kalcheva.

The story of the beautiful courtesan Violetta Valery and her lover Alfred Germont comes to life amid mirrored sets. Thanks to the mirrored cube in which the action takes place, the pictures unfold before the audience's eyes, as in a book. An integral part of the set are 300 white camellias scattered across the stage. They remind the audience that the opera La Traviata was inspired by the work of Alexandre Dumas Jr. In the last act, the flowers turn into crumpled and unsent letters to Alfred, except for one that symbolizes Violetta's love...

The image of Violetta Valéry will be recreated by soprano Veselina Vassileva.

Vesselina Vassileva graduated from DMA "Pancho Vladigerov" in the class of Assoc. Irena Brumbarova, the same year she made her debut on the stage of the Burgas Opera in the role of Pamina from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. She began her solo career at the Rousse Opera (1996) as Violetta Valeri in Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata. To this day this remains her crown role, which she performs with particular finesse and for which she has been invited to many opera houses. Veselina Vassileva was also Violetta Valerie in the latest production of La Traviata by the Sofia Opera. This year she also made her stunning debut in the role of Leila from Bizet's opera The Pearl Fishers, and her Gilda from Verdi's Rigoletto left the discerning Sofia audience breathless. The singer's repertoire also includes the main soprano roles from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Mimi and Musetta from La Boheme, Liu from Puccini's Turandot, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Xenia in Boris Godunov, Violetta in La Traviata, Neda in Pagliacci, Micaela in Carmen, etc. She has a rich cantata-oratorio repertoire.

The tenor Daniel Damyanov graduated in Orthodox Theology at the University of Sts. He studied opera singing as a private student, worked as a soloist of the Ruse Opera, the Sofia Opera, the Burgas Opera, and was a guest of all Bulgarian opera houses. His repertoire includes the parts of: Cavaradossi in Tosca, Calaf in Turandot, De Greio in Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Don Alvaro in The Power of Fate, The Duke in Rigoletto, Radames in Aida, Macduff in Macbeth, Foresto in Attila, Manrico in Verdi's Il Trovatore, Don José in Bizet's Carmen, Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, etc.

Marjan Jovanoski /baritone/ was born in Prilep, Macedonia. He studied at the Music School in Bitola /Macedonia/ and graduated as a cellist in 1995. In 1998 he was admitted to the Music Academy "Prof. He graduated in 2002 as a student of prof. Ivanka Ninova. He took his first steps on the professional stage in his homeland - in 2002 he made his successful debut in the role of Mazetto in the opera Don Giovanni by V. А. Mozart on the stage of the Macedonian National Opera, Skopje. In 2003 and 2004 he lived and worked in Vienna, Austria. For the next two years he was a soloist at the Macedonian National Opera and made his debut in the roles of Georges Germont in Verdi's La Traviata and Sharpless in Puccini's Madame Butterfly. He returned to Bulgaria to study and work with Nikola Guzelev. Since May 2007 Marjan Jovanoski is a soloist of the State Opera Burgas. He has toured in Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Daytona Beach and New York (USA).

Marjan Jovanoski's repertoire includes the roles of Renato from "Masked Ball", Amonasro from "Aida", Marquis Posa from "Don Carlos", Nabucco from the opera of the same nameDon Carlos from Verdi's "The Power of Destiny"; Marcel from "La Boheme", Sharpless from "Madame Butterfly", Scarpia from Puccivi's "Tosca"; Tonio from Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci"; Alfio from Mascagni's "La Homme"; Escamillo from Bizet's "Carmen", etc.

Marjan Jovanoski was awarded Second Prize at the International Competition for Young Opera Singers "Gena Dimitrova" in Pleven.

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