24 july 2024 Great Mood With The Premiere Of "My Fair Lady"

The intense summer creative rhythm of the State Opera - Burgas is heading towards its apogee - the long-awaited premiere of one of the most famous and performed musicals "My Fair Lady" by Frederick Lowe. The event is part of the Burgas Music Festival "Emil Chakarov" 2024, successfully organized for the seventeenth year by the Burgas Opera in partnership with the Municipality of Burgas. The long-awaited premiere performance of the Broadway musical is on August 2 at 9:00 p.m. on the stage of the Summer Theater in Burgas.

The Pleiades are the talented artists working on creating the production - the director Assoc. Dr. Alexander Tekeliev, director of the Burgas Opera, the great Bulgarian conductor Ivan Kojuharov, honorary citizen of Burgas; the prominent Bulgarian scenographer Ivan Tokajiev, who recently created the sets for the premiere of the ballet "Corsair" on the Burgas stage and has created several other impressive scenographies for productions of the Burgas Opera House; the young talented costume designer Yana Dvoretska - creator of the wonderful costumes of the ballet "Bad Girl" in the previous creative year 2023, as well as the choreographer Prof. Anna Pampulova, who was among the mentors of the International Ballet Academy "Sara-Nora Prima" 2024, as a side event of the international ballet competition of the same name. The performance "My Fair Lady" will be an intriguing interpretation of the popular work - according to the canons of our time, with a dose of provocation, avant-garde scenography, and impressive costumes - 192 in number. The conductor of the choir, who has an important role in the stage action, is Alexander Chepanov, Ani Tokadzhieva is the author of the 3D mapping, and the assistant director is Lina Peeva.

The plot of one of the most performed musicals in the world is not only funny but also brings a much-needed dose of romance, as well as a life philosophy. A double and triple solo line-up of first-class singers is rehearsing for the main roles - pleasant surprises with guaranteed added aesthetic value await the audience. For more than a month now, soloists, choir and orchestra have been rehearsing hard to present the Burgas public and the guests of the tourist city with a significant cultural experience that will leave a lasting memory with them. The rehearsal process is not only intense - as a schedule, but also as an emotion that the artists share and charge them - to create a real musical-scenic event - lush, fascinating, beautiful, exciting, and emotional.

For the premiere performance on August 2, they are preparing: for the role of the street florist Ilaiza Doolittle - Ilina Mihailova /guest/ and Ioana Kadiyska; for the role of phonetics professor Henry Higgins - Marcho Apostolov /guest/; Colonel Pickering – Petar Tiholov and Yordan Hristozov. Diman Panchev, Kostadin Mechkov, and Valeri Turmanov are rehearsing for the image of Alfred Doolittle, Elaiza's father, an attractive drunkard. Tenors Andreya Mirchev and Yani Nikolov are working on building the image of the young poor gentleman Freddie Hill. Kalina Popova and Irina Dobrovolska are preparing for the role of Mrs. Pierce, Harry will be Georgi Bozveliev, Jamie - Miroslav Dimitrov, Kruchmar - Emil Peychev, Alexander Perperiev; Mrs. Higgins - Stefka Hristozova, Mrs. Hill - Shmilena Sultanova, Severniak - Milen Georgiev; Southerner - Bozhidar Kmetov, Westerner - Milen Dinolov, Mrs. Hopkins - Darina Zapryanova.

In the large-scale musical production, the musicians from the orchestra and the artistic ensembles of the choir and ballet of the State Opera-Burgas take part.

The Burgas Music Festival "Emil Chakarov" will be officially closed with the second performance of the newest production of the Burgas Opera - "My Fair Lady" - on August 30 at 8:00 p.m. on the stage of the Summer Theater.

The latest production of the State Opera - Burgas is copyrighted by Concord Theatricals. MY FAIR LADY is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

About the musical "My Fair Lady":

Pygmalion is a stage play by George Bernard Shaw based on the ancient Greek myth of Pygmalion. In 1938, the work came to the big screen, and on March 15, 1956, a musical based on the film and the play, entitled My Fair Lady, premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theater - New York. The theatrical version of the play won nine Tony Awards, achieving great success and universal acclaim.

My Fair Lady is a classic in which a grown man takes a clumsy and primal girl under his wing and molds him so that he eventually falls in love with her. The musical presents an old story about the transformative power of love, in which the main character is the exotic street flower girl with a colorful London dialect - Eliza Doolittle. Henry Higgins, professor of phonetics, is outraged by her pronunciation and makes a bet with his friend Pickering that in six months he will turn Eliza into a real lady by teaching her to speak correctly. She agrees to this challenge because she strongly dreams of a better job and it would help her. Comic adventures ensue, in which the unadulterated heroine both infuriates and charms her teacher by reincarnating herself in the role the professor has assigned her. As time goes on, Higgins and Doolittle grow closer, but she rejects his attempts at training, stays true to herself, and announces that she will marry Freddie Eynsford-Hill, a poor young gentleman. In the end, the professor wins the bet but realizes that a person's beauty is not visible on the surface, but lies deep within his soul.

Tickets - at the box office of the Opera House, the "Chasovnika" box office, on the Grabo networks - https://grabo.bg/burgas/miuzikal-v-burgas-0wt3bu and Eventim - https://www.eventim.bg/bg/bileti /drzhavna-opera-burgas-leten-teatr-burgas-1428223/performance.html, as well as on the spot - at the box office of the Summer Theater, before the performance.

In previous years, the Burgas Opera staged with great success another well-known Broadway musical - "Kiss Me, Kate!". November 2019. The director of the production was again Assoc. Dr. Alexander Tekeliev, whose creative approach invariably bears the mark of a high aesthetic product, with an invested clear thought, an original concept, a sense of detail allegorical philosophical elements, and intelligent creativity.

The final product of their joint project "My Fair Lady" is worth the creative energy put into the process of creating something new, and exciting, with a clever wink to the audience!

The premiere, which promises to be an event for the cultural life of the city and the region, is on August 2 at 9:00 p.m. on the stage of the Summer Theater - Burgas!