05 april 2024 Delightful Viva Puccini Opera Gala On Friday

In such moments, when the condensed emotion still lives in the mind and would like to be shared a little more only with the inner peace, to empathize - again, and again, more and more deeply and multidimensionally, words are superfluous.
The worded feeling and subsequent thought come later, when the emotion settles, recedes, and only the feeling of pure beauty remains. Then it could be shared.
And with music, presence and palpable love for the work of Giacomo Puccini, the magnificent soloists, conductor, orchestra and choir made it this evening on the stage of the Burgas State Opera with the opera gala VIVA PUCCINI / VIVA PUCCINI - as a tribute to the genius of the composer, whose soul continues to lives, excites, shakes, purifies and transforms...

A tribute to the music of Puccini, whom we celebrate 165 years after his birth and the 100th anniversary of his death, to the extraordinary dedication of the conductor Dimitar Kosev, who managed to detect the "pulse" of Puccini's messages, so close to every sensitive human soul, to the wonderful soloists: Ioana Zhelezcheva, Maria Tsvetkova-Madjarova, Andreya Mirchev, Valery Georgiev, Yani Nikolov, Valeri Turmanov, Delyan Slavov and Lyubomir Todorov, the musicians from the orchestra - with concertmaster Vanya Zlateva, the artists from the choir with conductor Alexander Chepanov and the specialists from the technical services that provided a quality visual environment with thematically selected and aesthetically designed multimedia and subtitles for the performed arias, duets and ensembles!

All of the more than 100 artists and musicians on stage tonight touched the essence of Puccini's work.
And the audience felt it, sympathized, and appreciated it.
The concert was honored with a gesture by the mayor of Burgas Municipality - Mr. Dimitar Nikolov - with the traditional basket of flowers on the stage.

In the program, it was said:
Duet Tosca and Cavaradossi - from Act, I of the opera "Tosca", performed by Ioana Zhelezcheva, Valery Georgiev; Rodolfo's aria from the opera "Bohemia" was performed by Andreya Mirchev; Mimi's aria from the 1st act of Op. "Bohemia" - performed by Maria Tsvetkova-Madjarova; Duet of Mimi and Rodolfo from Act I of Op. "Bohemia", presented by Maria Tsvetkova-Madjarova and Andreya Mirchev; Pinkerton's Aria from Act III of Op. "Madame Butterfly" - performed by Yanni
Nikolov; Cho-Cho san's aria from Act II of the opera "Madame Butterfly" was performed by Yoana Zhelezcheva; "Coro a bocca chiusa" from Act II of the opera "Madame Butterfly" - performed by
Chorus of the State Opera - Burgas; Ioana Zhelezcheva performed Tosca's aria from the opera of the same name; Finale of Act I from Op. "Turandot" performed by: Maria Tsvetkova (Liu), Valery Georgiev (Kalaf), Delyan Slavov (Timur), Valeri Turmanov (Ping), Lyubomir Todor (Pong), Yani Nikolov (Pang) and the chorus of the State Opera - Burgas; Princess Turandot's aria from the opera of the same name was performed by Joana Zhelezcheva; "La morte di Liu" - Act III of the opera "Turandot" performed by: Maria Tsvetkova-Madjarova (Liu), Valery Georgiev (Kalaf), Delyan Slavov (Timur), Valeri Turmanov (Ping), Lyubomir Todor (Pong ), Yani Nikolov (Pang) and the choir of the State
opera - Burgas and choir of the State Opera - Burgas; Calaf's aria from the opera "Turandot" was performed by: Anderya Mirchev, Valery Georgiev, Yani Nikolov, choir of the State Opera - Burgas.