13 june 2024 Nostalgic Beauty&Wonderful Music At "I'm Waiting For You"

On June 16, Sunday, at 8 p.m. in Hall No. 4 /Mirror/ of the "Flora" Exhibition Center - Burgas, connoisseurs of chamber music will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the unique atmosphere of romance - through music, poems, and fine art. syncretically combined their messages into a single suggestion. The soprano Maria Tsvetkova-Madjarova, the bass Diman Panchev, and the pianist Iliana Todorova will give those present moments of contact with the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mikhail Glinka, poems by Sergey Yesenin and the paintings of Russian artists.

This is what Maria Tsvetkova-Madjarova, soloist of the State Opera - Burgas, tells about the upcoming chamber performance:

"On June 16 at 8 p.m. in Hall 4 of the Flora Exhibition Center, you can be transported to the fabulous world of the Russian treasury of music and paintings. This is another thematic concert of the opera theater, which exposes the souls of the artists. Meters from the audience, in an absolute acoustic environment without microphones and "chemistry", you will hear rarely performed songs from the Eastern opus of Rimsky-Korsakov, songs by Glinka and Rachmaninov and, of course, Tchaikovsky. Interestingly, the concert was decided as a walk in a museum and gallery. Spectators will enjoy paintings by Vrubel, Shishkin, Repin, Vosnetsov, and others. The paintings are selected for each romance and aria and will be projected onto a screen with real resolution and colors. This is taken care of by the young artist and designer Diana Avelova, who is the person who shaped the vision of the concert and selected thematic paintings by Aivazov, Repin, Vosnetsov, etc., which correspond to the mood and era of the songs, for which we thank her! Diana Avelova is a textile and costume design student at the world-renowned Duperré School of Design in Paris. In 2023, he worked as an assistant costume designer on the latest film of the Cannes Film Festival award-winning director, Samuel Tess. Since the end of 2023, she has been working in the costume department of the Vienna Opera, being appointed assistant costume supervisor in the new production of the contemporary opera "Elektrische Fische". She is also the artist of another project, "Time Travel" - with baroque music, which was received with great interest and continues to be performed.

The music will sound under the delicate fingers of the pianist Iliana Todorova, and the vocal parts are divided between Maria Tsvetkova-Madjarova - soprano and Diman Panchev - bass. For the "I'm waiting for you" project, there will also be spectacular lighting that will transport you to the East and the Taiga... In Russian culture, the important parts are precisely for these voices - the mystical and angelic, soporific and gentle of the soprano and that deeply sad and at the same time passionate sound of the bass… Are you curious?”

At the concert on Sunday, the audience will have the privilege to hear and experience the wonderful performances of the two soloists, as well as pianist Iliana Todorova, who is completely impressed with the melody and emotional references of their voices.

Art presented through the music of great composers, poems, and paintings of famous artists will be presented to the audience in a wonderful way - exciting and at the same time - with a tangible dose of respect and reverence for eternal messages - such as ethics, aesthetics, and spiritual class. The aesthetically designed and conceptually sound stage, thematic multimedia, and carefully selected lighting will be an additional plus in the overall appearance of the music project.

The concert will have one important participant "behind the scenes" - the young artist Diana Avelova, curator of the artistic part of the project.

The atmosphere at the "I'm Waiting for You" concert on Sunday will be fabulous. The two performers will present themselves comprehensively - both as a presence, and as a vision, and as timbres, and as the elegance of the sound, and as a created atmosphere of something fragile, extremely valuable, and infinitely beautiful. The pianist Iliana Todorova, as always, will be an equal partner of the two opera singers, soloists of the State Opera - Burgas - with magnificent technique, a singing sound, a beautiful line of phrases - as if sung, achieved a muted-nostalgic sound of the grand piano - with gentle caressing shades of the overtone scale.

The program of "I'm waiting for you" will sound like:

"I'm Waiting for you", "I bless you, Forest", "Here it is good", "Dream", "Syren", "Don't Sing, Beauty" by Sergei Rachmaninoff; "During a Noisy ball", "Forget it so soon", "Is she in the field, so there is no travushka byla", "Nights of madness" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; "Nochenka" - Russian song; "Doubt" by Mikhail Glinka; "Melnik" and "Old Corporal, Titular Councilor" by Alexander Dargomyzhsky; "Evreyskaya", "Captured Rose, Nightingale", "Zuleika", "Nymph Rimsky" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and others.

Tickets for the "I'm waiting for you" concert can be purchased at the Opera's box office, the "Chasovnik" box office /in front of the "Bulgaria" hotel/, on the Grabo network - https://grabo.bg/burgas/vokalen-kontzert-0ub5d, as well as on-site - before the event.