28 october 2024 "Sleeping Beauty" Brings Finesse And Class To The Opera House

For fans of the ballet, a new exciting encounter awaits with the masterpiece "Sleeping Beauty" to the ingenious music of P. I. Tchaikovsky and the magnificent direction of Prof. Hikmet Mehmedov. After the successful performances of the ballet classics in Balchik and Vratsa a few days ago, on Wednesday evening - October 30, from 7 p.m., the enchanting performance will bring an atmosphere of fairy-tale charm, style, and class to the hall of the State Opera - Burgas. Visitors will witness the stage presentation of the famous magical tale, told through beautiful ballet art - in an incredible combination of music, grace, exquisite costumes, and stunning sets.

The audience will see the wonderful prima ballerina of the State Opera - Burgas, Daniela Turtumanova-Stoyanova, who appears on the stage in the image of Princess Aurora - bewitched by the evil fairy Karabos, she falls into a deep long-term sleep, and Prince Desiree frees her from the abyss. She has been reincarnated in the image several times - both on the Burgas stage and tour - with finesse, technical mastery, and personal charm. The role of the Prince is played by the soloist of the ballet troupe, Theodor Tsakov, winner of the Burgas Municipality Award on May 24, 2024, which is awarded for high achievements in the field of culture. He made his successful debut in the role of the performance in the city of Balchik on October 22 of this year, entering the role and on the stage in Vratsa on October 24. The Burgas audience will see him for the first time in the role of Prince Desire.

"Sleeping Beauty" is a large-scale ballet project, impressive with the creative scope of the directorial decisions of Prof. Hikmet Mehmedov and its complete aesthetic appearance. The performance introduces the world of an enchanted princess, noble fairies, an evil ogre with a severe wound, a handsome prince with a kind and brave heart, magic, an extravaganza of colors, movements, emotions, and beautiful details, sculpting a true fairy tale reality. The ballet was created based on the plot of one of Charles Perrault's most popular fairy tales, the ingenious music, which has gained popularity and as an independent sounding of individual parts of the work, is by PI Tchaikovsky. The Sleeping Beauty is Tchaikovsky's longest ballet - its original duration is about four hours. Prof. Hikmet Mehmedov's interpretation preserves the final quadrille in which the characters from Perrault's fairy tales dance - Puss in Boots, Blue Bird, Little Red Riding Hood, and others.

The "Sleeping Beauty" choreography is by Marius Petipa and Prof. Hikmet Mehmedov. The staging and directing work, the work of Professor Mehmedov, is impressive with its perfectionism in artistic terms and the creative flight of thought, transporting the audience to fabulous dimensions, where aesthetics and exquisite expressiveness rule - movements that embody conceptual beauty. The sets, adapted to the demands of a similar scale of the unfolding of the action, are by set designer Ivan Tokadjiev, whose style is often described as close to that of Salvador Dali. The designer of the costumes is the costume designer Tsvetanka Petkova-Stoinova, who received an award of the "Association of Choreographers" for her creative work in "Sleeping Beauty". The number of costumes in the play is over eighty. They are completely handcrafted, with the ladies' dresses encrusted with thousands of Swarovski crystals, each one hand-applied to create the exquisite overall look of the fabulous stage costumes. The assistant director of the production is Petar Tiholov.

Tutor of the ballet troupe of the State Opera - Burgas - Galina Kalcheva, who was on stage at the premiere, which took place on May 4, 2017, in the role of Feya Lyulyak. Laya Ramon enters the scene on Wednesday.

Bright, colorful, with an aristocratic shine are all the images that will create magic on the stage of the Burgas evening on Monday. Yana Berduta takes the stage as Karabos, the fairy who casts a spell on Princess Aurora to sleep without memory. Shun Kalafune is in the role of the Blue Bird, together with Ilina Konstantinova. Kiril Filipov also plays the role of the Wolf, in partnership with Rafaela-Maria Kuhl /Red Riding Hood/. The Puss in Boots scene features Nanako Sato and Haru Nakagawa.

The rest of the magical creatures also bring gentle fairytale charm to the stage: Fairy Tenderness - Raphaela-Maria Kuhl, Fairy Fertility - Gergana Kozarova, Fairy Generosity - Ilina Konstantinova, Fairy Carefree - Julia Letsi, Fairy Courage - Nanako Sato.

The male presence in the ballet "Sleeping Beauty", filled with fairy tales, is no less colorful. Cavaliers will be: Daniel Tichkov, Kiril Filipov, Haru Nakagawa and Francesco Pio Russo. As the master of ceremonies, Katalabut, Stoyan Furtunov will appear on the stage on Wednesday. Maria Gabarova will play the role of the Queen on the Burgas stage, and Nayden Naydenov will play King Florestan.

In the magnificent stage fairy tale, told through the means of ballet art, the overall splendor of the stage on October 30 is complemented by artists from the ballet ensemble of the State Opera - Burgas.