MY FAIR LADY
August 2, 2024, 9:00 p.m., Burgas Summer Theater - Official page
BURGA MUSICAL HOLIDAYS "EMIL CHAKAROV" '24
BURGAS MUNICIPALITY AND STATE OPERA - BURGAS PRESENT
MY FAIR LADY MY FAIR LADY
A MUSICAL BY FREDERICK LOWE
Conductor - Ivan Kozhuharov
Director – Alexander Tekeliev
Scenography – Ivan Tokadzhiev
Costumes – Yana Dvoretska
Choir conductor - Alexander Chepanov
Choreography - Anna Pampoulova
Multimedia and 3D mapping - Ani Tokadjieva, State Opera - Burgas
Assistant director - Lina Peeva
Concertmasters: Vanya Zlateva and Hristo Belchev
Accompanist - Mira Iskarova
Makeup and wigs - Kalina Popova
Soloists:
Iliza Doolittle - Ilina Mihaylova Ilina Mihaylova
Henry Higgins - Marcho Apostolov
Colonel Pickering - Petar Tiholov
Alfred Doolittle - Diman Panchev
Freddie Hill – Andreya Mirchev
Mrs. Pierce - Irina Dobrovolskaya
Harry - Georgi Bozveliev
Jamie - Miroslav Dimitrov
Innkeeper - Emil Peychev
Mrs. Higgins – Stefka Hristozova
Mrs. Hill - Shmilena Sultanova
Severnyak - Milen Georgiev
Yuzhnyak - Bozhidar Kmetov
Westerner - Milen Dinolov Milen Dinolov
Mrs. Hopkins - Darina Zapryanova
Orchestra, choir, and ballet of the State Opera - Burgas
About the work:
Pygmalion is a stage play by George Bernard Shaw based on the ancient Greek myth of Pygmalion. In 1938, the work came to the big screen, and on March 15, 1956, a musical based on the film and the play, titled My Fair Lady, premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theater - New York. The theatrical version of the play won nine Tony Awards, achieving great success and universal acclaim.
My Fair Lady is a classic in which a grown man takes a clumsy and primal girl under his wing and molds him so that he eventually falls in love with her. The musical presents an old story about the transformative power of love, in which the main character is the exotic street flower girl with a colorful London dialect - Eliza Doolittle. Henry Higgins, professor of phonetics, is outraged by her pronunciation and makes a bet with his friend Pickering that in six months he will turn Eliza into a real lady by teaching her to speak correctly. She agrees to this challenge because she strongly dreams of a better job and it would help her. Comic adventures ensue, in which the unadulterated heroine both infuriates and charms her teacher by reincarnating herself in the role the professor has assigned her. As time goes on, Higgins and Doolittle grow closer, but she rejects his attempts at training, stays true to herself, and announces that she will marry Freddie Eynsford-Hill, a poor young gentleman. In the end, the professor wins the bet but realizes that a person's beauty is not visible on the surface, but lies deep within their soul.