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Festival dedicated to Richard Wagner at the Sofia Opera

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Six operas - Wagner’s tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung, Parsifal, and Tristan and Isolde will be presented, from 8 to 25 July, on the stage of the National Opera under the baton of conductor Constantin Trinks.

The operas are part of the summer Wagner Festival, which will close with the Flying Dutchman on Lake Pancharevo in Sofia on 29 and 30 July, conducted by Rossen Gergov. They will be in German with Bulgarian and English subtitles. This major project, by the director of the National Opera Plamen Kartalov, is dedicated to Richard Wagner's 210th birth anniversary.



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