28 january 2025 Yordan Dafov Will Concuct The Symphony Concert On Friday

The first event of this year and the next one on the calendar of the State Opera – Burgas for the 2024/2025 Season, is a concert that deserves the attention of symphonic music fans. Under the baton of the distinguished conductor Yordan Dafov, a diverse concert program, selected with flair and taste, will be presented at the Symphony Concert on January 31, Friday, at 7 p.m. in the hall of the Burgas Opera. The doyen of the Bulgarian cultural space, Maestro Dafov, winner of the "Golden Age" award of the Ministry of Culture. The talented and respected Burgas conductor was distinguished for his contribution to the development of culture and the affirmation of national identity. Yordan Dafov is charged with inexhaustible creative energy and continues to be a benchmark for the class. Every musical event under his baton becomes an unforgettable aesthetic experience. The Easter concert under his conducting - at the beginning of May this year, in which over 100 performers took part on stage - soloists, orchestra, and choir, filled the hall of the Opera with an emotional audience and had a wide public response. Yordan Dafov manages to give every event an aura of dedication to the mystery of high art and the spiritual dimensions of the path to Perfection. He also conducted the Christmas concert of the Burgas Cultural Institute at the end of December 2024 to a full house. , which also passed with great success.

Under the baton of Maestro Dafov, soloist of the Burgas Opera Orchestra /with concertmaster Vanya Zlateva/, the 23-year-old violinist Viktor Trenev, winner of numerous international awards and has played on some prestigious stages, will perform Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Opus 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven. According to information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, together with Viktor Mitsev, viola, on October 25, 2024, Viktor Trenev took part as a soloist in the annual charity concert of the Japan Association for Cultural and Musical Exchange at the invitation of Maestro Mitsuyoshi Oikawa and the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Tokyo. The concert took place in the prestigious Kioi Hall concert hall in Tokyo. The program included works for piano and orchestra by Chopin and Mozart for viola and violin. The charity concert is organized annually by the Japan Association for Cultural and Musical Exchange, whose chairman is the famous Japanese conductor Mitsuyoshi Oikawa.

In addition to Beethoven's Violin Concerto, on Friday the Opera Hall will also feature the iconic "A Little Night Music" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose 269th birthday the music world celebrated a few days ago - on January 27. One of Mozart's most recognizable works (1756 - 1761) was written at the time when the genius was composing his opera "Don Giovanni". "A Little Night Music" remained unpublished for 40 years. It was only when Mozart's widow - Constanze - sold the work to a publisher, along with other unknown works of his, that it gained popularity. Today, this serenade is one of the most performed works from the treasury of world classics, the main themes are favorites of listeners, as they contain a life-affirming charge.

The last work that will be performed at the Symphony Concert on November 1 is Symphony No. 5 in B flat major D. 485 by Franz Schubert, created in October 1816, which is quite chamber and in scale. In this Schubert symphony, the influence of the Viennese classics and, above all, Mozart is still felt. At the time when he composed the symphony, Schubert was deeply obsessed with the genius of his predecessor and in his diary on June 13, 1816, he wrote: “O Mozart! Immortal Mozart! What countless impressions of a brighter, better life you have left on our souls!”