17 november 2025 "Sleeping Beauty" Brings Magic and Beauty to the Opera House

For ballet fans, an exciting encounter with the classical masterpiece "The Sleeping Beauty" to the brilliant music of P. I. Tchaikovsky and the brilliant direction of Prof. Hikmet Mehmedov is ahead. On the evening of November 18, the hall of the State Opera - Burgas will be subject to the magic of ballet. The enchanting spectacle will bring an atmosphere of fairy-tale charm, style, and incomparable class to the stage of the Burgas Cultural Institute.

Grace, worship of the classical source, high performing class, springing beauty, and enchanting movements - in sync with the music and dramaturgy - the whole brilliant symbiosis will charge those attending the spectacle with a feeling of contact with the highest sample of art. It is expected again that the performers from the ballet troupe of the Burgas Opera, with repetiteur Galina Kalcheva, will maximize their capacity and perform with brilliance, mood, and confidence. In July of this year, the performance of "The Sleeping Beauty" was played with exceptional success on the stage of the Summer Theater, when the numerous international audience applauded the wonderful performers for a long time, both during and after the end of the performance.

Visitors to the Opera House hall on Tuesday will witness the stage presentation of the magical fairy tale, told through the means of the incomparable beauty of ballet art, in an impressive combination of music, grace, exquisite costumes, and stunning sets.

The audience will see the charming Ilina Konstantinova in her debut role of Aurora. The Burgas audience knows the beautiful young ballerina from her roles as Cinderella in the ballet of the same name to music by Sergei Prokofiev, directed by Prof. Hikmet Mehmedov, Gulnara - in "Le Corsaire" directed by Galina Kalcheva, Little Red Riding Hood - in the ballet of the same name, the Fairy - in "Thumbelina" - both productions directed by Maria Tabakova, in the large-scale project "Ballet at the Opera", as well as in other ballet performances of the Burgas Cultural Institute. On November 18, she enters the image of Princess Aurora - enchanted by the evil fairy Carabosse, she falls into a deep, long-term sleep, and is freed from her doom by Prince Desire. Ilina Konstantinova is the winner of the Burgas Municipality Award for the best performing participant from Burgas in the International Ballet Competition “Sara-Nora Prima” 2025, and together with her stage partner, Patrick Gill, who is not participating in the competition program, performed brilliantly at the gala concert. Ilina Konstantinova is expected to perform with the characteristic etherealness in building the image, ease in performing the complex technical elements, and personal charisma for her role.

The role of the Prince is played by the Prime Ballet Master of the Sofia Opera and Ballet, and the Burgas Opera Emil Yordanov. The Burgas audience is well acquainted with the aristocratic, memorable stage presence and excellent overall performance of the Prime Ballet Master, but in tandem with Ilina Mihaylova, they will have the privilege of seeing him for the first time – in the stage couple Princess Aurora – Prince Desire.

Laureates of the International Ballet Competition "Sara-Nora Prima" 2025 will participate in the performance on November 18: the winners of the awards - a guest appearance in a performance at the Burgas State Opera, presented personally by the director of the Opera and host of the competition and the accompanying ballet academy - Prof. Dr. Alexander Tekeliev: Rumelina Dilcheva - a guest appearance in a central role, Valeria Minkova and Bianca Gospodinova - participation in a performance at the Burgas Opera.

The choreography of "The Sleeping Beauty" 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 reign, of movements that embody ideological beauty. The sets, tailored to the requirements of such a scale of the unfolding of the action, are by the scenographer Ivan Tokadzhiev, whose style is often described as close to that of Salvador Dali. The costume designer is Tsvetanka Petkova-Stoynova, who received the award of the Association of Choreographers for her creative work in The Sleeping Beauty. The number of costumes in the production is over eighty. They are made entirely by hand, with the women's dresses being trimmed with thousands of Swarovski crystals, each of them glued by hand to obtain the exquisite overall vision of the fabulous stage costumes. The assistant directors of the production are Petar Tiholov and Lina Peeva.

Rehearsal 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 the Lilac Fairy. On stage on Tuesday, Rumelina Dilcheva, laureate of the International Competition "Sara-Nora Prima" 2025, will take the role.

 

Bright, colorful, with aristocratic brilliance are all the images that will create magic on the stage of the Burgas Opera on Tuesday evening. As Carabosse, the fairy who, through a spell, condemns Princess Aurora to a sleep without memory, Raya Chakarova appears on the stage. Impressive, in terms of technical performance, artistry, and synchronicity, will be the couple Laia Ramon – Kiril Filipov – in the tandem “Blue Bird”. Temperamental and bright will be Rafaela-Maria Küll as Little Red Riding Hood, and Francesco Russo - the Wolf. Julia Letzi and Shun Kavafune will perform with charm and style in the sketch "Puss in Boots".

Charming, enchanting, with a truly fairy-tale appearance, they will be in the images of the other magical creatures: Fairy Tenderness - Rafaela-Maria Küll, Fairy Fertility - Gergana Kozarova, Fairy Generosity - Valeria Minkova /tour/, Fairy Carelessness - Julia Letzi, Fairy Courage - Bianca Gospodinnova /tour/.

The male presence in the ballet "The Sleeping Beauty", filled with fairy tales, is no less colorful. The Cavaliers will be dignified and radiating aristocracy: Teodor Tsakov, Kiril Filipov, Haru Nakagawa, and Stoyan Furtunov. Royal and respectful, respectively, in the role of tender loving parents, will be Maria Gabarova - Queen, and Nayden Naydenov - King Florestan. Patrick Gill will also be memorable in the characteristic comic role of the courtier Catalabut.

In the staged lavish fairy tale, told through the means of ballet art, the overall brilliance of the stage on November 18 is complemented by artists from the corps de ballet of the Burgas Opera. The Suite of the Lilac Fairy will perform: Andrea Sotirova, Kalina Nedelcheva, Bianca-Helen Giovanelli, Anelia Ivanova, and Anna Pasello. Little maids of honor will be: Kalina Nedelcheva, Julia Letsi, Nanako Sato, and Andrea Sotirova. Big maids of honor: Laya Ramon, Gergana Georgieva, Gergana Kozarova, and Rafaela-Maria Küll. As magical Nereids on Tuesday, the following will appear on stage: Gergana Georgieva, Polina Pasha, Bianca-Helen Giovanelli, Anna Pasello, Gergana Kozarova, Kalina Nedelcheva, Julia Letsi, and Andrea Sotirova. The temperamental Mazurka will feature: Gergana Georgieva, Anelia Ivanova, Bianca-Helen Giovanelli, Gergana Kozarova, Haru Nakagawa, and Stoyan Furtunov.

“The 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 witch with a heavy misfortune, 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 is created based on the plot of one of the most popular fairy tales by Charles Perrault, and the brilliant music, which has gained popularity as an independent sound of individual parts of the work, is by P. I. Tchaikovsky. “The Sleeping Beauty” is Tchaikovsky’s longest ballet – its original duration is about four hours. In the interpretation of Prof. Hikmet Mehmedov, the final quadrille is preserved, in which the characters from Perrault’s fairy tales dance – Puss in Boots, the Blue Bird, Little Red Riding Hood, and others.

Tickets for the ballet "Sleeping Beauty": at the Opera box office, "Clock" box office, in the Grabo networks - https://grabo.bg/burgas/balet-po-chaikovski-0f4tzq?fbclid=IwY2xjawOH8NNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBZeFBTejhYcDRiQ2dZaUxsc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MghjYWxsc2l0ZQEyAAEeL5P3YgdjV2Z59E0cfom4N7GZpoJuaiEkR6k3jDid3sylXOQYntt_klqOp34_aem_-P2NwARe3L09dWomxUW7PA, and Eventim - https://www.eventim.bg/bg/bileti/spyashchata-krasavica-burgas-drzh