27 march 2024 The Beautiful Vera Girginova Shines In "La Traviata" on Saturday

One of the most performed opera titles - Verdi's "La Traviata", will be the glamorous coda of the March program of the State Opera - Burgas. Under the baton of the famous maestro Slavil Dimitrov - a guest, an honored and welcome guest behind the conductor's desk at significant events in the calendar of the Burgas Opera, the charismatic soprano Vera Girginova /guest/ - will appear on the stage on March 30, Saturday, at 7 p.m. - in the role of Violetta Valerie. Vera Girginova is a soloist of the State Opera - Plovdiv. An interesting fact about the complex professional qualities of the talented singer, possessor of a unique charm, is that in addition to her education at the National Academy of Music, she is a certified architect. Vera Girginova is a laureate of several competitions, among which: the competition for young opera singers "Gena Dimitrova" (2009), the competition "European Community" in Spoleto, Italy (2010), and the International Singing Competition "Elena Nikolay" ( 2013). She developed her vocal technique with some of the biggest Bulgarian and Italian opera names: /Renata Scotto, Fiorenza Cosotto, Raina Kabaivanska, Anna Tomova-Sintova, Darina Takova, Stefka Evstatieva, Ana Vandi, Mirela Paruto, etc./. She specialized in Italy: as a scholarship holder of the "Boris Hristov" Academy in Rome, as well as at the "Kijana" Academy in Siena, with a scholarship from the "Rayna Kabaivanska" Fund, and in the period 2010-2012 she became a scholarship holder of the prestigious Opera studio at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, where he studied under the famous Renata Scotto.

The versatile artistic role of the beautiful singer will be presented in the emblematic role of Violetta Valeri for every soprano, torn by dramatic passions with a tragic undertone.

To tell the eternally tragic story of love's pitfalls and fateful challenges, on March 30, magnificent artists take to the stage of the Opera House. The role of Alfred Germont is played by the young soloist of the Burgas Opera, Andreya Mirchev. He made his memorable debut in the recreation of the image during the performance of "La Traviata" in February 2023, when he participated in a stage partnership with laureates of the First Competition for Young Opera Singers "Stoyan Popov" 2021. Andreya Mirchev succeeded in building the heavy tenor part not only with ease in the interpretation of Verdi's music, full of dramatic clashes, but also as a strong acting argument.

Alexander Krunev, the famous baritone who has extensive stage experience in roles of different styles and temperaments, will appear on the Burgas stage as Georges Germont on Saturday. The charming mezzo-soprano Joana Cadijska will be in the role of Flora Bervois, a friend of Violetta Valerie, with whom they shine in the social circles of Paris in the middle of the 19th century. Darina Zapryanova enters the image of Violetta Valerie's faithful maid - Anina, bass Kostadin Mechkov will play the role of Baron Dufault, baritone Branimir Nedkov - Marquis d'Aubigny, Milen Dinolov - Vicomte Gaston de Lettorier, Diman Panchev - Doctor Grenville, Miroslav Dimitrov – Joseph and Nikolai Nikolov – Servant of Flora.

The magnificent direction of "La Traviata" is by Associate Professor Dr. Alexander Tekeliev and combines original concepts and a non-standard approach to the construction of images in the dramatic plot based on the novel "La Dame aux Camélias" by Alexandre Dumas - son "La Dame aux Camélias". The scenography of Catalin Arbore /Romania/ is attractive and contains an allegorical charge, in which mirror images are used - as a symbol of the metamorphoses in the human soul and the unity of the light and dark beginning in the overall appearance of the personality. Arbore is also the author of the beautiful stage costumes of the La Traviata production. The scenography, in which the mirror images are used, is attractive and contains an allegorical charge - a magnificent fusion between music, dramatic messages, and mirror effects of the original scenographic solutions, which seem to reflect the inner world and contradictions in the plane of different perspectives, revealing unsuspected truths - about people, relationships and interdependencies. The visual-semantic leitmotif of camellias, in sync with the literary source, runs through the whole action - as a symbol of worldly luxury and frivolity, as well as the lost hopes crushed by the decisions of Fate - in the form of those thrown on the mirror under unsent letters to the beloved.

The conductor of the choir, which is assigned an important role in the overall development of the plot, is Alexander Chepanov, the concertmaster is Hristo Belchev. The attractive choreography is the work of Galina Kalcheva, the assistant director of the production is Lina Peeva, tutor of the ballet ensemble is Marina Zmeeva-Markova.

The artistic ensembles of the orchestra, choir, and ballet of the State Opera-Burgas take part in the large-scale stage project with impressive visual effects.

"La Traviata" is an opera that every music lover should have seen in several stage versions - to find, through his own taste and artistic sensibility, the one that impresses his criteria - both as an aesthetic and as a vision, and as a way of conveying the timeless messages of the classics in an up-to-date form that resonates with the current issues of today. The production of the Burgas Opera is a gauntlet of challenge, thrown to the routine and scholasticism in the interpretation of the eternal theme of love, not subject to preconceived notions and the pressure of the conjuncture, the failures of the soul, the search for comfort in reciprocity. And above all – an apotheosis of Beauty, in its most exalted dimensions. And a unifier of all the messages of "La Traviata" - the eternal music of the genius Giuseppe Verdi.