08 august 2023 Music By Rock Legends Sounds At The Open-Air Theater On Friday

Another explosion of emotions and exciting experiences is coming on the stage of the Summer Theater - Burgas on Friday, August 11, at 8:30 p.m., with the concert program "Symphony Melody Rock", under the baton of maestro Svilen Simeonov, an undisputed favorite of the audience. The event is one of the successful sixteenth editions of the Burgas Music Festival "Emil Chakarov" 2023, which is taking place with expected interest from a large audience. The summer music festival is realized by the State Opera - Burgas, in partnership with the Municipality of Burgas.

Fans of rock music, the impact of which does not diminish over the years, will be charged with a high dose of adrenaline during the concert on the open stage. Timeless rock songs continue to be favorites of representatives of all generations. The attractive musical-scenic project is one of the challenges of the conductor Svilen Simeonov, known for his masterful orchestral interpretations of well-known musical themes - in Latin style, Argentine tango, rock, songs from the repertoire of colossi in the musical culture of the 20th century - Beatles, Queen, ABBA, and others. Maestro Simeonov is known for his inherent artistry and direct communication with the audience, with whom he always achieves emotional synchronicity.

With his charismatic presence, maestro Simeonov is not only a conductor and author of the arrangements adapted for symphony orchestras and rock bands but also a skilled presenter of the concert program. As always, on the stage of the Summer Theater on Friday, he will be able to electrify the space around him - with the sweeping emotional wave of eternal rock hits, which will be filled with a mood created by the interaction of the conductor, performers, and audience. The maestro is known for his incomparable casual way of communicating with the audience, conveying the mood, messages, warmth, temperament, and sensual charge of the musical scores. Not every concert can be called an event. And Svilen Simeonov turns the concerts under his baton into a memorable spectacle. At the end of June this year, maestro Simeonov, together with the orchestra and ballet of the Burgas Opera, and the soloist Ralitsa Petkova caused a sensation in the Summer Theater with the concert show "Latino Pulse" - a brilliant combination of temperamental music, dynamics, and passion. And the "Symphony Melody Rock" concert had its glamorous premiere in July 2022, when it gathered over 300 excited audiences on the open stage on the island of St. Anastasia.

On the open stage in the Primorsky Park of Burgas on Friday, August 11 - with the inherent exclusivity and sweeping element of emotions of rock music, the famous hits will sound:

"Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple, "We Will Rock You", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Show Must Go On", "We Are the Champions" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, "Mamma Mia" by "ABBA", "Satisfaction" by "Rolling Stones", "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley, "Another Brick In The Wall" by "Pink Floyd", "The House Of The Rising Sun" by " Animals", "I Love Rock N'Roll" by "Eros", "Stairway To Heaven" and "Kashmir" by "Led Zeppelin", "Can't Buy Me Love" by "Beatles", "Gimme, Gimme" / "A Man After Midnight"/ by "ABBA" and "Sweet Child O'Mine" by "Guns and Roses" and others.

The orchestrations and adaptation of the eternal rock hits for symphony orchestra and rock band are by maestro Svilen Simeonov, concertmaster of the orchestra of the Burgas Opera will be Hristo Belchev. The soloists who will present the popular and beloved rock compositions are the young instrumentalist Ralitsa Petkova - electric and acoustic violin - well known to the Burgas audience with her successful participation in the concert performances "Latino Pulse", "Argentine Tango", "Le grand tango" and other successful projects; Adriana Benova - vocalist, Yana Chakalska - vocalist, known to the general public for her successful participation in the popular musical format "Voice of Bulgaria", and the wonderful professionals from the Jazz formation "Sofia" at the OKI "Nadezhda" - Sofia.

It is guaranteed that at the "Symphony Melody Rock" concert on Friday, as at all musical events under the baton of maestro Simeonov, there will be an exciting evening, combining the emotional charge of rock music, which brings vitality, zest for observing life-affirming maxims, high degree of mood in extreme parameters, worthy of the messages of rock legends, recreated in unforgettable song titles.

This is what maestro Svilen Simeonov says in an interview about the "Symphony Melodies Rock" project: "In 2015, the idea for , a joint project between Symphony Sofia and Dance Formation Sofia with its rock band, was born. We're advertising it as a "Rock Symphony" to cover a wider range of music lovers, but in the arrangement and adaptation from pianoforte to symphony orchestra I give priority to the voicing, and in the orchestration to the symphony orchestra, not so much to the rock band. That is why I have arranged some of the songs only for a symphony orchestra, without a rock band and vocals. In the concert, we will offer an interesting symbiosis between a symphony orchestra, a rock band, and vocals with an electric violin and saxophones. All this will be presented in an attractive and accessible way for the audience, with short explanations from me about the history of the creation of each of the songs, with banter and questions for the audience.

 

Tickets for the concert: at the box office of the Opera House, the "Clock" box office /opens from Monday to Sunday/, on the spot - at the box office of the Summer Theater, after 6:30 p.m. - before the concert, as well as on the Grabo networks - Grabo and Eventim - Eventim