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.
The 51 st Sofia International Book Fair opens today at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia. The forum, which will be on until 15 December, is organized by the Bulgarian Book association. 160 publishing houses are taking part in the forum..
"Through his plays, Jean-Pierre Martinez strives to restore the prestige of comedy as a mirror held out to society" - the playwright's website states. Martinez is the author of 101 comedies performed all over the world, which are studied in French schools..
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov is one of twelve writers from around the world invited to become international members of the British Royal Society of Literature, the organisation announced on its website . The writers were selected by a committee..
The Natalia Simeonova Foundation has filed documents for registration of a community center that will be named after the legend of Bulgarian rock music..
"Thank you to Petar Angelov, Michaela Velichkova, Sonia Chakarova and all the members of the representative folklore ensemble Shevitsa for the..
After the state-run record company Balkanton was closed down in 1994, no gramophone records have been manufactured in Bulgaria. This is going to change..
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