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Mozart – Don
Giovanni
Since its first performance in 1947 – The
Bartered Bride by Smetana till now, the Varna Opera has
produced more than 220 productions. Active participant
in the cultural life of Varna, the Opera has
successfully appeared on the national music stage with
the productions of Turandot at the Salon of Arts (2003),
Carmina Burana at the New Year Music Festival (2004),
Aida at the Open-air Stage Festival in Sofia and Salon
of Arts 2005 . The opera team has toured in many
European countries, Egypt, the USA.
The Varna Opera was awarded the Varna Prize for the
productions of Le nozze di Figaro, Macbeth, Don Carlos,
Carmina Burana. At the National Contests in Stara
Zagora, Prince Igor, Der fliegende Holländer and Simon
Boccanegra were awarded. In 1995 the first stage
production of the oratorio-opera Oedipus Rex by I.
Stravinsky won the prize for the best premiere of the
year by Allegro Vivace at the Bulgarian National Radio.
In 2004 the Varna Opera-Philharmonic Society was awarded
Crystal Lyre Prize by the Union of Music and Dance
Figures in Bulgaria and National Center of Music and
Dance.
Varna Opera celebrates the 250th Mozart’s anniversary
with the performance of Don Giovanni, which premiere was
within the Varna Summer International Music Festival
2005. This is the recent production of Mozart’s work in
the repertoire of the Varna Opera after Entführung aus
dem Serail (1952, 1973), Cosi fan tutte (1960– first
production in Bulgaria, and 1996), Die Zauberflöte
(1966, 1989), Le nozze di Figaro (1974). |
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