22 may 2024 Teodor Tsakov With The Burgas Municipality Award For May 24

In the late afternoon of May 22, in the exquisite open space of the "Flora" Exhibition Center, at the traditional festive cocktail for the cultural figures of the city, organized by the mayor of Burgas Municipality - Mr. Dimitar Nikolov, with an award on the occasion of May 24 - Day of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and Slavic literature, was awarded to Teodor Tsakov - soloist of the ballet troupe of the State Opera - Burgas. The prestigious prize, presented by Diana Savateva, deputy mayor of the department "Culture and Religions" at the Municipality of Burgas, is on the occasion of his wonderful performance in the leading male role in the Swan Lake ballet tour in nine Bulgarian cities.
After the exceptional success during the tour with the staging of the "ballet of ballets", as they call it in cultural circles, "Swan Lake" to music by P. I. Tchaikovsky and directed by Prof. Hikmet Mehmedov, with the assistant director - Vesa Tonova, in Shumen, Razgrad, and Dobrich - in the city of November 2023, in February, March, and April 2024, there were performances at fire halls in Sliven, Haskovo, Vratsa, Blagoevgrad, and Pernik and Botevgrad.
The audience had the privilege to admire the high mastery of the soloist of the ballet company of the State Opera - Burgas Theodor Tsakov - in the main role of Siegfried, in a brilliant stage tandem with the prima ballerina of the Burgas Opera Daniela Turtumanova-Stoyanova, as well as all the other soloists and artists from the ensemble, with tutor Galina Kalcheva.
The large audiences in each of the cities, where tickets for the performances were sold in advance, became empathetic to an event of the highest class. The reviews after each of the performances - for Teodor Tsakov and his colleagues, were enthusiastic. The role of Siegfried is his debut and is considered one of the most technically complex in ballet circles. In the past year 2023, the soloist of the ballet company made his remarkable debut in the role of Mama Simone in the comic ballet "The Badly Protected Girl", he participated in all ballet performances in the Season 2022/2023 and Season 2023/2024. A new tour of Theodore is coming up Tsakov with "Swan Lake" as well as other ballet titles.

In the syncretic stage of art, teamwork in the State Opera-Burgas has always been an indispensable part of the process of achieving the high artistic level of the cultural institute. In this respect, Teodor Tsakov possesses remarkable personal qualities of a leader, generator of ideas, mediator, and unifier, with a high level of ethics and culture. The work of every professional of the Opera team has always been the focus of attention, valued, and awarded with the necessary respect for the invested creative energy in the name of the messages contained in the meaning of art and the process of its creation and addressed to the public, which is the chief criterion and judge. It is in this connection that the management of the Burgas Opera believes that Teodor Tsakov fully deserves the prestigious prize of the Municipality of Burgas and will justify the credit of trust given to him in the future.
Teodor Tsakov was born in Sofia in 1992.
In 2011, she graduated from the National School of Dance Art - Sofia, majoring in classical dance under teacher Petar Koldamov. In 2008, he received a scholarship from the "Peter Iliev" dance workshop and studied in Chicago with Daniel Duel and Patricia Blair. In 2010, he finished in third place in the Anastas Petrov National Ballet Competition in Dobrich. Toured as part of the ensemble and soloist with Bulgarian, French, and Ukrainian troupes in Europe, Asia, and America with the performances of "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "The Nutcracker", "Don Quixote" and others. From 2014 to 2015, he worked at the State Opera - Ruse. He made his debut as a soloist in the performances "Sleeping Beauty", "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake". He made his debut there as a choreographer with the performance "Stranger Squad". In parallel with his work in the city of Ruse, he performed soloist roles for the State Opera - Plovdiv. From 2015 to 2016, he went to Ukraine, where he worked at the Kharkiv National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet named after N.V. Lysenko, participating in the entire repertoire of the theater. At the end of 2016, he started working at the State Opera - Burgas, while at the same time studying and obtaining a bachelor's degree with a major in pedagogy at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in the city of Plovdiv.
With the troupe of the State Opera - Burgas, he played leading roles in: "Swan Lake" /Siegfried and Rothbart/, "The Badly Protected Girl" - Mama Simone, "Pahita", "Giselle" /Hans/ and others.
The host of the ceremony was the beloved singer Stefan Ilchev, who performed several songs - as part of the excellently assembled program and then attended the performance of RIGOLETTO / RIGOLETTO in the Opera hall.
Congratulations on the great and well-deserved recognition of Teodor Tsakov and the success of the premiere of the ballet CORSAIRE – PREMIERA / LE CORSAIRE – PREMIERE - on June 8 of this year on the stage of the Burgas State Opera!
Congratulations to all other artists - from various cultural institutes and formations, for theirs