OPERA OPEN 2020 PROGRAM

Tickets: Ticket Office in front of the Municipality of Plovdiv, tourist information center on Roman Stadium Square, ticket office at the Ancient Theatre, at the Boris Hristov City Hall of Culture and all Eventim ticket offices, as well as online at www.eventim.bg

July 3 and 4, 21:00 h. (9 pm)
Accompanying event: Screenings of films from the series "At the Opera with BNT 2" - Roman Stadium, Free entrance

10 and 11.07 (Friday / Saturday), 21:15 h. (9:15 pm)
Gala opening
THE DOORS OF SLEEP 
Multimedia show with works by Bach, Vivaldi, Moore, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Bellini, Chilea, Messian, Orff, Arnaudov
Space gives birth to ideas, acoustics, experiences, memories and prophecies. Space has its dreams. We tried to hear and perceive them - and to interpret them with the means of music, dance, visual arts, through specific locations and masterings of the Ancient Theater. What is the world we dream, and what is the dream we live? The Theater of Dreams will open its gates and invite us ...
The performance has an inverted point of view as the audience is accommodated on the stage of the Ancient Theater and in sectors A and F. The number of seats is limited. The entrance and the exit are only from the Tunnel/SOUTH.

17 and 18.07 (Friday / Saturday), 21:15 h. 
Sometimes I will come in your dream...
THE POETS AND THE MUSIC 
Multimedia performance in Bulgarian classical music and the most beautiful love lyrics by Hristo Fotev, Peyo Yavorov, Dobromir Tonev, Damyan Damyanov, Valeri Petrov, Petya Dubarova and others.
Soloists and Chamber Ensembles of the Plovdiv Opera
A show in which music and speech are combined. Beautiful Bulgarian love poems will sound, dressed in timbres and winged by the sensitivity of today's famous actors - Boyko Krastanov, Vlado Penev, Zahari Baharov, Malin Krastev, Teodora Duhovnikova, Julian Vergov. And the wonderful Antoni Donchev and the musicians from the Plovdiv Opera will tirelessly return this poetry to its musical roots, giving it new strength.
The performance has an inverted point of view as the audience is accommodated on the stage of the Ancient Theater and in sectors A and F. The number of seats is limited. The entrance and the exit are only from the Tunnel/SOUTH.

22.07 (Wednesday), 21:00 h. (9 pm)
Legend on the thumbs of
GISELLE Adam 
International Ballet Troupe and Plovdiv Opera Orchestra
The romantic story of Giselle and her prince, the story of a love so pure and delicate that it breaks under the blows of the rough and real world to triumph the imperishable; this story will be told in sound, light and gesture by the famous ballet of Adam with the participation of the star premier soloists of the Sofia Opera and Ballet Marta Petkova and Nikola Hadjitanev.

25.07 (Saturday), 21:00 h. 
Operettas of Vienna, Budapest and Paris
VIVA L'OPERETTA 
Soloists, Choir, Ballet and Orchestra of the Plovdiv Opera
We invite you to an intoxicating masquerade ball with sparkling humor, crazy adventures and glamorous champagne! Enchanting waltzes, fiery chardash and challenging kan-kan in the Gala performance with the best of the operettas of Strauss, Kalman, Lehar and Offenbach.

20.08 (Thursday), 20:30 h. (8:30 pm)
VESKO ESHKENAZI AND THE SEASONS OF VIVALDI AND PIAZOLA
Plovdiv Opera Orchestra
The prominent Bulgarian violinist Vesko Panteleev-Eshkenazi presents the remarkable musical cycles "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi and "Four Seasons" by Astor Piazzolla. Vivaldi and Piazzolla - bright representatives of different musical cultures give us two different versions of the same theme. Music written in the early 18th century in Italy - exquisite and poetic, which tells about nature, as well as music of passions, light and darkness, love and hate, created in the middle of the 20th century in Argentina.

22.08 (Saturday), 20:30 h.
Music of Peace
LENINGRAD SYMPHONY Shostakovich
"Music of Peace" is an international music project, a dialogue about peaceful coexistence, a celebration of human strength and spirit. The project includes the performance of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony by orchestras in Berlin, Vienna, Plovdiv and Torgau, as well as by the Baltic Sea Symphony Orchestra.
Plovdiv Opera Orchestra
As always with Shostakovich, this Symphony is not dedicated to the city - whatever it is called, not to the event, but to the people. To those who died of starvation, of cold, of shells and bombs ... of despair. There is no politics here: there is a struggle of terrible, banal evil with man. The symphony is rarely played because of its scale, huge composition, difficulty, alas - and because of political prejudices ... And now Plovdiv has the chance to hear it, to feel the thrill of the famous theme of the invasion and to experience the powerful catharsis that music leads to.
Entrance by invitation

25.08 (Tuesday), 20:30 h. 
Sonya Yoncheva
GALA OPERA 
Plovdiv Opera Orchestra
Sonya Yoncheva - the Bulgarian prima who conquered the world, returns to her native Plovdiv for an exciting meeting with the audience of the Ancient Theater. Sonia Yoncheva's star shines on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Scala, the Bavarian Opera, the Berlin Opera, the Vienna and Paris Operas. She has partnered with artists such as Placido Domingo, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Sting, Jonas Kaufman, Thomas Hampson, Antonio Papano. Her rich repertoire spread from the Baroque to works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Puccini. The Bulgarian is the only artist in the history of the Metropolitan Opera, who in one season participated in three performances, each of which was broadcast live in 2000 cinemas around the world.

28.08 (Friday), 20:30 h. 
The whole world is a joke...
FALSTAFF Verdi
Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Plovdiv Opera
"Everything in the world is a joke and the man for a jester is born" - with these words ends the comic opera "Falstaff" - Verdi's latest work on the play "Merry Windsors" by Shakespeare. Immersed in the glaze of la dolce vita, you will learn secrets and intrigues An unforgettable evening with Kiril Manolov - probably the best, colorful and powerful Falstaff among modern opera performers and with the special participation of the prima Mariana Pencheva.

31.08 (Monday), 20:30 h. 
CANCELLED - THE CHOIR AND ITS WORLD VOICES
Plovdiv Opera Orchestra and BNR Children's Choir
Festive gala of three opera stars, who began their musical journey in the Children's Choir of the Bulgarian National Radio, on the occasion of its 60th anniversary. Svetlina Stoyanova, soloist of the Vienna Opera, Maria Radoeva with a career in opera houses in Austria and Italy and Ina Kancheva with performances in opera houses such as Covent Garden and La Scala, gather on the stage of the Ancient Theater with the current children choristers and the orchestra of Opera Plovdiv for an evening with some of the most famous arias and choral scenes from operas.

31.08 (Monday), 20:30 h. 
Music of Peace
LENINGRAD SYMPHONY Shostakovich
(second date)

4.09 (Friday), 20:30 h. 
For a dream...
"MADAM BUTTERFLY" Puccini
Soloists, Choir, Ballet and Orchestra of the Plovdiv Opera
We celebrate the 20th anniversary of the International Master Class of Raina Kabaivanska at NBU with the visit of the star of the opera houses in Rome, Parma, Venice, Genoa and Florence, Ricardo Muti's favorite soprano - Vitoria Yeo, for "Madame Butterfly" in Plovdiv . Raina Kabaivanska will be a special guest of the show, awarded the Plovdiv 2019 prize for multimedia design and scenography.

12.09 (Saturday), 20:00 h. (8 pm)
NINTH SYMPHONY Beethoven /
SURVIVAL FROM WARSAW Schoenberg
250 years since the birth of Beethoven, 75 years since the establishment of the Philharmonic in Plovdiv
Soloists: Stanislava Momekova, Georgi Sultanov, Elena Chavdarova - Isa, Ivaylo Dzhurov
Choir and Orchestra of the Plovdiv Opera
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is probably the most powerful musical utopia known to mankind; the musical testimony "The Survivor of Warsaw" - the most frightening anti-utopia. The gates of Heaven and the wind of an angel's wing - and the doors of the gas chamber. Two choral hymns to the Deity, coming from the very depths of the hearts. The idea to combine these two polar works is the idea to delineate the boundaries of the human today. Let's get excited - Through music and in the name of music.