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18
JULY
Since its first performance in 1947 – The Bartered Bride
by Smetana till now, the
Varna Opera
has staged 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. The opera
team has toured in many European countries, Egypt, the
USA. The great merit for the success of the Varna Opera
during the last 22 years has been the Ass. Prof. Hristo
Ignatov, conductor and Opera’s director of many years
and since 1999 director of the Opera Philharmonic
Society – Varna.
The Varna Opera was awarded with 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 also 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 Opera-Philharmonic Society – Varna was
awarded with the Crystal Lyre Prize – one of the most
prestigious music prizes in Bulgaria.
For the first time in its 60-year long history the Varna
Opera stages the Verdi’s Attila.
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