25 july 2024 A Concert Dedicated To Love With "Un Amore Grande" On Saturday
On Saturday, July 27, at 8:00 p.m., the refined outdoor space of the Flora Exhibition Center will host another exciting chamber performance from the summer program of the State Opera - Burgas - after the success of "I'm Waiting for You", Concert of the pianists of State Opera - Burgas and "Summertime". For the intelligent audience, always sympathetic to the musical and artistic life of the Burgas Cultural Institute, as well as for the guests of the city and the Southern Black Sea coast, a selected program has been prepared with the concert "Un amore grande", in which wonderful melodies, known and loved, singing love - as a stimulus, hope, hope. The popular vocal works will be performed by the young talented tenor with a velvet timbre Yani Nikolov, soloist of the Burgas Opera. Two weeks ago, he participated in another wonderful project - "Love Story" of Fr. "Saint Anastasia", together with the soprano Nona Krastnikova and the orchestra of the Opera House, under the baton of Deyan Pavlov, in which they performed popular melodies from French classical cinema. And days before the concert in the open sea, the two soloists were also irresistible in the main roles in the operetta "Blood of Vienna" by Johann Strauss-son - on the stage of the Summer Theater in Burgas, also under the baton of maestro Deyan Pavlov. On Saturday evening, the stage at the Flora Exhibition Center of Yani Nikolov will be joined by: the virtuoso pianist Sergey Sultanov, who recently played at the concert "Chardash, wine and Love" in Pomorie and Chernomorets, together with the soloists Lyudmila Mihailova, Yordan Hristozov, and Diman Panchev, as well as his wife - the violinist Nataliya Sultanova, also part of the musical composition of the Burgas Opera, who also played in the concert from the series "The Soloists of the State Opera - Burgas - in April of this year in the lobby of the Opera, when the soloists were: Maria Tsvetkova-Madjarova, Andreya Mirchev and Valeri Turmanov.
The soloist Yani Niklov talked about the idea of the music project: "The program of "Un amore grande" is conceived as a combination of music from different eras, which is united by the theme of love. The popular tunes guarantee a fresh mood, and the predisposing neighborhood of the sea in Primorski Park will be the prerequisites for an exciting event with a touch of summer atmosphere under the sign of the feeling of love."
Yani Nikolov specifies that the idea is to present the concert as an exquisite bouquet of works by various composers, and it will be a kind of beautiful musical gift for lovers of romantic experiences.
In the program of the concert on Saturday, the following will be performed - with talent, attitude, and taste: "Caro mio Ben" /a song about the need for a partner and how his lack is unbearable/ by Giuseppe Giordani; Tosti - "A vuccella" Neapolitan song /poetry dedicated to flowers/; Song by Schubert, "Elegy" by Jules Massenet, Eduardo di Capua - "O, sole mio", Cherubin - "Mama son tanto felice", Parlami d'amore Mariu', Danilo's Aria from the operetta "Countess Maritza" by Imre Kalman, Fred's Song from the Musical "My Fair Lady" by Frederick Lowe, Italian and Spanish Canzonets, etc. An interesting fact is that Yani Nikolov, together with the tenor Andrey Mirchev, is preparing for the role of the young gentleman Fred, who is in love with the flower seller Eliza Doolittle, for the premiere performance on August 2 at 9:00 p.m. on the stage of the Summer Theater in Burgas, and the second performance of the latest production of the State Opera - Burgas - at the official closing of the Burgas Music Festival "Emil Chakarov" - on August 30, also on the stage of the Summer Theater in Primorski Park.
Yani Nikolov adds that in addition to the piano pieces in the program, there is also another surprise - a violin arrangement of the song "Wow, Yano!" by Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin, performed by Natalia Sultanova and Sergey Sultanov, and the piece is a kind of story about their an extraordinary love told through the expressive means of musical art.
On Saturday evening, the concert "Un amore grande" will be a wonderful colorful emotional highlight of the day off. The attendees will give themselves an exciting emotion with the concert – as a musical-aesthetic addition to the mood characteristic of the summer, which is still in full swing.
Tickets for "Un amore grande" - at the box office of the Opera House, the "Chasovnika" box office, on the Grabo networks - https://grabo.bg/burgas/un-amore-grande-0w832bk and Eventim - https://www.eventim .bg/bg/bileti/drzhavna-opera-burgas-flora-exhibitionen-centr-1436211/performance.html, as well as on the spot - before the concert.
For the performers:
Yani Nikolov, tenor:
Graduate of NUMSI "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" city of Burgas majoring in clarinet. Winner of numerous awards in the country and abroad. Since 2009, a student at the National Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" - Sofia, majoring in classical singing, in the class of Maria Belcheva. Even as a student, he was noticed and the first roles were not long in coming. He made his debut on the stage of the Sofia Opera and Ballet, in student projects of the Akd. Plamen Kartalov. Participant in many master classes of world singers and musicians such as Carlo Colombara, Roberto Scanduzzi, Luciana Dintino, Christian Benedict, Richard Barker, Darina Takova, Orlin Anastasov, Emil Ivanov, Katya Borisova, Ivan Konsulov, and others. Participated in opera festivals and concerts in Bulgaria, Greece, Austria, Romania, and Switzerland. The most prestigious among them are Bulgaria Hall with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hall 1 of the NDK with the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra. Guest performer at the European Parliament in Brussels, on the occasion of Bulgaria's national holiday, under the patronage of the Bulgarian government.
Sergey Sultanov – piano:
He was born in 1976 in Tashkent in the family of musicians Faizulhak Sultanov and Natalia Pogorelova. He studied at the republican secondary special music boarding school named after Ouspensky, in the same place where his brother Alexey Sultanov studied. He started in Alexander Shtuko's class and continued his education in Natalia Vasenkina's class. In 1986, the whole family moved to Moscow. In Moscow, he studied in the class of Victor Afanasiev, and then in the class of Lyubov Varsobina. After finishing school, he entered the "Gnesin" school under Irina Naumova. Then he entered the Maimonides Academy under Professor Nahum Starkman. He spent an internship as an assistant in the class of Alexey Scanavi. After completing his assistantship, he focused primarily on teaching and chamber performance. In 2017, he received a master's degree in pedagogy. He played in Japan, Poland, and Kyrgyzstan. He held master classes in Moscow, Saratov, Plovdiv, Istanbul, Bishkek, and Krakow. He was a member of the jury of international competitions. For several months, he has been working as an accompanist at the State Opera - Burgas.
Natalia Sultanova – violin:
She was born in the city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 1992. In 2011, she graduated from the "Murataala Kurenkeev" Music School (Bishkek) majoring in piano and violin. In 2016, he continued his musical education at the Saratov State Conservatory (Academy) "Leonid Sobinov", majoring in violin with Kamila Badalyan and Mesrop Badalyan. In 2018, he received a master's degree - majoring in violin with Prof. Tatiana Razhkova-Dudovova. In 2016, he participated in a master class by Thomas Zettmeier. Participated in "Diaghilev Festival" in Perm, "Student Spring" - Tolyatti, "NewOperaWorld" - in Moscow, and "Golden Mask" - in Moscow. Winner of a scholarship from the President of Kyrgyzstan. Toured in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, the United Arab Emirates, and Bulgaria. He works in various orchestras conducted by Stephen Lorenzo Kremer, Yuri Simonov, Vladimir Ralov, Yuri Kochnev, and Medet Turgumbaev.