16 november 2023 Nona Krastnikova Аnd Maryan Jovanoski Аt Тhe Concert On Saturday

The third performance of the "Soloists of the State Opera - Burgas" series is coming up on Saturday evening, November 18 at 7 p.m. in the lobby of the Opera House. The program of the vocal concert will feature masterpieces from the operatic classics, performed by soprano Nona Krastnikova, baritone Maryan Jovanoski, Igor Kiriyanov will play the piano, Maya Zhelyazkova - flute will also take part in the concert.

The beginning of the new concert cycle in the repertoire of the Burgas Cultural Institute was set with the vocal concert on October 7 of this year, with soloists: soprano Lyudmila Mihailova and baritone Yordan Hristozov, Daria Krasteva on the piano, and Stefka Hristozova, who joined in the concert program with a flute performance, in a duet with Yordan Hristozov – guitar. This was followed by a concert by the basses of the Burgas Opera - Delyan Slavov, Diman Panchev and Kostadin Mechkov, accompanied by Iliana Todorova on the piano - on November 4.

Nona Krastnikova coped brilliantly on October 25 at the performance of the opera by Giacomo Puccini "Madame Butterfly" - and with the case of a lightning entry into the naturel of a role that she had not performed for a long time, due to the illness of the singer foreseen in the composition, both musically and as an artistic challenge, and as a purely time resource - to recall the difficult party. During the summer season of the Burgas Opera, the soprano made a successful debut in the role of Safi in the operetta by Johann Strauss-son "Gypsy Baron", under the baton of maestro Deyan Pavlov - during the Burgas Music Festival "Emil Chakarov" 2023, on the stage of the Summer theater, as it was a double debut for her – both as a new image building and as a first time participation in an operetta title. The 2023/2024 Season of the State Opera - Burgas was also opened with the operetta by Strauss - again with a full house and an enthusiastic reception from the audience. During the summer season, Nona Krastnikova also participated in the series of concerts with music from the classic French cinema "Love Story" in various cities in Bulgaria, also under the direction of Prof. Deyan Pavlov. The soprano also made her debut in the role of Anna in the opera "Nabucco" by Giuseppe Verdi - on the second night of the "Opera of the Sanctuary" festival in the Thracian megalithic complex Begliktash, with conductor Prof. Ivaylo Krinchev, and participated in the characteristic comic role of Bertha in "The Seville barber" by Gioacchino Rossini - on the stage of the Summer Theater in Burgas, conducted by Ivan Kozhuharov.

The famous baritone Maryan Jovanoski - soloist of the National Opera and Ballet of the Republic of North Macedonia and of the State Opera - Burgas, will perform at the concert on Saturday, together with the soprano Krastnikova. During the summer season of the Burgas Opera, he participated in the opera "Ball with Masks" by Giuseppe Verdi, under the baton of the great Bulgarian conductor Ivan Kojuharov - both during the Burgas Music Festival "Emil Chakarov" 2023 and at the performance of Verdi's title , with which the "Scene of the Centuries" festival was officially opened in Veliko Tarnovo in July of this year. The distinguished opera singer entered the iconic roles of Nabucco in the opera of the same name by Verdi - on the open stage of the Thracian sanctuary Begliktash, as well as Escamilio – in the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. His exciting reincarnation in the image of the Toreador and the performance on November 24 of this year on the stage of the Burgas Opera is coming up. Marjan Jovanoski also performed the role of Count di Luna in "The Troubadour" by Giuseppe Verdi - in the last festival evening of "Sanctuary Opera" 2023.

At the piano on Saturday stands the young pianist from Ukraine Igor Kiriyanov, who recently became an accompanist at the Burgas Opera, and his first stage appearance was during the Second National Competition for Young Opera Singers with International Participation "Stoyan Popov", which took place from 17 to October 21 in the Opera hall. The flutist Maya Zhelyazkova, who has experience in similar chamber vocal performances, will take part in the concert program.

Here is what the soprano Nona Krastnikova reveals before the concert:

"It is an honor for me to sing with Marian Jovanovski in a concert that presents the soloists of Opera Burgas. This is a baritone that has the timbre of the old great masters – soft, deep, very colorful, big! The program we have selected goes through different styles, languages and eras! Happiness and sadness, love and hate, many conflicting emotions and passions are promised by the music of the concert. We will be accompanied by Igor Kiryanov - a virtuoso pianist from Ukraine, and as an elegant and subtle surprise we will present to the audience two flute pieces with the wonderful Maya Zhelyazkova. I invite everyone with great desire, it will be inspiring!”