Rousse State Opera
Contents |
[edit] History
Founded in 1949, the Rousse (or Ruse) Opera Theatre is the inheritor of the Rousse Opera Society (created in 1914), which makes it one of the oldest state cultural institutions in Bulgaria. The staff of schooled singers, the monolithic choir, the ballet, and the instrumental culture of the orchestra have a professional interpretative maturity in different styles. The house repertoire ranges from the classics — Mozart through Verdi and Puccini — to Stravinsky and Shostakovich, and in all encompasses 195 different works for the stage, some of them having received their Bulgarian premieres in Ruse.
Over the years numerous famous singers have sung on the Ruse opera stage: Elena Nikolai, Todor Mazarov, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Raina Kabaivanska, Nicola Giuselev, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Ghena Dimitrova, Stefka Evstatieva, Orlin Anastassov, Valerie Popova, Gloria Lind, Alexandrina Milcheva, Vladimir Atlantov, Stefan Dimitrov, Ivan Konsulov, Ava Cooper, Peter Glossop, Zinaida Pali, Silvia Shash, Kaludi Kaludov, Mariana Zvetkova, Nicolae Herlia and many others. Since 1956, the company has toured in Romania and Italy, Spain, Holland, France, Ukraine, Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Cyprus and Rhodes islands. Rousse Opera Theatre has also recorded a number of performances for Bulgarian Radio and for separate CD compilations.
[edit] Repertoire
- Rossini - La Gazza Ladra
- Rossini - L`Italiana in Algeri
- Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
- Puccini - Tosca
- Puccini - La Bohème
- Puccini - Madama Butterfly
- Puccini - Turandot
- Verdi - Aida
- Verdi - Ottelo
- Verdi - Nabucco
- Verdi - Rigoletto
- Verdi - Stiffelio
- Verdi - Il Trovatore
- Verdi - La Traviata
- Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
- Gounod - Faust
- Bizet - Carmen
- Beethoven - Fidelio
- Glinka - Ivan Sussanin
- Mozart - Don Giovanni
- Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
- Mozart - Bastien and Bastiena
- Mozart - Magic Flute
- Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana
- Moussorgski - Boris Godunoff
- Tschaikowski - Eugeni Onegin
- Smetana - Prodana Nevesta
- Gershwin - Blue Monday
- Gershwin - Porghi and Bess
- Saint-Saens - Samson & Dalila
- Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
[edit] Ballet
Choreographers, such as Asen Gavrilov, Asen Manolov, Peter Loukanov, Mercedes Pavelich, Kalina Bogoeva, Antal Fodor, Giancarlo Vantagio, Alain Bernard, Oleg Danovski, Kalina Bogoeva worked here.
[edit] Opera & Philharmonic Society
Opera & Philharmonic Society Rousse was established in 1999 joining the Rousse Opera Theatre and Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra. It presents opera, ballet as well as symphony works.
The Opera & Philharmonic Society has at its disposal two halls – a concert one equipped with a record studio and an Opera House. Both halls have more than 600 seats each. The Opera & Philharmonic Society possesses technical means for producing theatrical sceneries.
[edit] General Music Director
The General Music Director of the Rousse Opera Theatre and the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra Nayden Todorov studied with Karl Osterreicher and Uros Lajovic in Vienna. He conducted major orchestras across Europe and America, as well as in Israel. Maestro Todorov was a resident conductor of the Israel Northern Symphony in Haifa. In 1997 he organized the First festival "Thracia Summer". Nayden Todorov has recorded over a hundred compact discs for Naxos Records, Balkanton, RENT Music, MMO, Danacord, IMI and Hungaroton and has also created several music productions for various radio and TV stations. In addition he is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra.
[edit] External links
Coordinates: 43°50′53″N 25°57′24″E / 43.84806°N 25.95667°E
