24 october 2022 Prof. Alexander Tekeliev Celebrates 80 Years On the Burgas Stage

After the success of the first edition of the national competition with international participation "Stoyan Popov", in which 46 young opera singers from 8 states took part, a new large-scale project of the Burgas Opera is coming - the official celebration of the 80th anniversary of the eminent Bulgarian composer and music pedagogue Prof. Alexander Tekeliev. On October 27, Thursday, at 7 p.m., the concert in his honor will be held on the stage of the State Opera - Burgas. Under the baton of the distinguished Bulgarian conductor, chairman of the Bulgarian Choral Union - maestro Slavil Dimitrov, another famous Bulgarian musician - Borislav Yotsov, clarinetoeva" Children's Choir also need no introduction and will once again participate in a project of the Burgas Cultural Institute.

tist, who will be the soloist of the orchestra of the Burgas Opera with concertmaster Hristo Belchev, together with the wonderful young singers from the Children's Choir "Milka Stoeva" with conductor Svetla Stoeva, will present their unique spiritual gift to Prof. Tekeliev, who is the father of the director of the State Opera - Burgas - Assoc. Dr. Alexander Tekeliev.

The concert program will feature the popular works of Prof. Alexander Tekeliev: Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, performed by Borislav Yotsov and the orchestra of Opera Burgas, and "Sea Tale", a poem for children's choir and symphony orchestra, composed in 1987. , performed by the "Milka Stoeva" Children's Choir and the orchestras of the Burgas Opera.

Maestro Slavil Dimitrov is well known to the Burgas audience, this year he conducted with great success the performance of the opera "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi in March of this year on the stage of the Burgas Opera, when the soloists were the wonderful Ilina Mihailova, Mihail Mihailov, Alexander Krunev, Joanna Kadiyska, who won first prize in the "Stoyan Popov" competition, etc. The talented young singers from the "Milka S