Daniela Dyakova and Ventseslav Anastassov...
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Daniela Dyakova and Ventseslav Anastasov guest in the premiere performances of the opera "Il Trovatore" at the Stara Zagora Opera House
The premiere performances of the opera "Il Trovatore" by Giuseppe Verdi will be presented on 22 and 25 May on the stage of the Stara Zagora Opera. The opera "Il Trovatore" is one of the most beloved and popular works of the great Italian composer. This is mainly due to the beautiful, melodious and evocative music. "Il Trovatore is also one of the most popular opera titles for the Stara Zagora audience. The new production is distinguished by a combination of debuts and participation of established soloists of the Stara Zagora Opera and star guest performers. For the first time, the chief conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic, Martin Panteleev, conducts the opera Troubadour. The performance is the directorial debut of tenor Georgi Dinev. The young soloists Gergana Rusekova and Boris Taskov will make their debut in the roles of Azucena and Manrico. The leading soloist of the Stara Zagora Opera Elena Barumova will play the role of Leonora, Ivan Kabamitov will be seen as Count Di Luna and the bass Alexander Marulev will play the role of Ferrando.
Daniela Dyakova will guest in the role of Azucena. In recent years Daniela Dyakova has established herself as one of the most preferred mezzo-soprano performers in all Bulgarian theatres and a number of European opera houses. And the role of Azucena has brought her high praise from the audience and professional critics at home and abroad for her exceptional interpretation of the tragic image of the gypsy. Audiences will be able to enjoy her art on 22 May, at 19.00. In the other main roles she will be partnered by Elena Barumova /Leonora/, Boris Taskov /Manrico/, Ivan Kabamitov /Graf Di Luna/, Alexander Marulev /Ferando/.
Baritone Ventseslav Anastasov as Count Di Luna is the next expected guest in the opera's production of Il Trovatore. An artist with incredible talent and permanent engagements in all opera houses in Bulgaria and a number of prestigious opera houses abroad. Ventseslav Anastasov will perform on 25 May, at 19.00 for the first time in front of the Stara Zagora audience in the role of Count Di Luna. He comes from his hometown of Ruse, where on 22 May he performed for the first time in front of Ruthenians the role of Don Giovanni from Mozart's opera of the same name. He will perform in Il trovatore together with his colleagues from the Stara Zagora Opera Elena Barumova, Boris Taskov, Gergana Rusekova and Alexander Marulev.
The two premiere performances also feature the soloists Emilia Djurova, Ivaylo Yovchev, Evgeni Surmiyevich, Sasho Stoykov and others, the choir and orchestra of the Stara Zagora State Opera. Conductor of the choir Mladen Stanev. The stage adaptation is by Dimo Kostadinov. In three of the battle scenes in the performance are joined by representatives of the Pre-Bulgarian Survival School "Baga-Tur".
DANIELA DIAKOVA (mezzo-soprano) graduated in opera singing at the Music Academy "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" in Sofia in the class of prof. Russko Ruskov and Christina Angelakova. She participated in the Master Classes of Luca Gorla at the "Scuola Civica di Musica" in Milan, Italy and of Caroline Diouma in Sozopol. She specialized in opera singing with Sergio Segalini at the Accademia D'Arte Lirica in Osimo, Italy. Daniela Dyakova has received several awards from prestigious singing competitions, including First Prize from the international opera competition "Hope, Talents, Masters" /Dobrich/, First Prize from the competition "Young Opera Singers" - Sofia, Second Prize at the international opera competition "Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin" - Sofia and First Prize from the competition "Tsvetana Dyakovich".
In her repertoire are the roles of Adalgidza from "Norma", Amneris from "Aida", Azucena from "Il Trovatore", Princess Eboli from "Don Carlos", Fenena from "Nabucco", Carmen from the opera of the same name, Rosina from "The Barber of Seville", Dorabella from "So Do They All", Delilah from Masne's "Samson and Delilah" and others. She has toured to prestigious opera houses in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, China, Taiwan, Japan under the baton of Naiden Todorov, Diyan Chobanov, Grigor Palikarov, Bareza, Oren, Lorenzo Ramos, Alessandro San Giorgi, Gerardo Vera, José Cabaye, Javier Sarano, Aydar Toribayev, Pyotr Vandilovsky.
In parallel with her artistic performances at home and abroad, she has also managed to cope ably as Artistic Director of the Sliven Symphony Orchestra.
VENTSESLAV ANASTASOV was born in Ruse into the family of the famous Bulgarian opera singers Maria Ventsislavova and Anastas Anastasov. He graduated from the music school in Ruse and the State Music Academy "Prof. She graduated from the school of Pancho Vladigerov, Sofia. His repertoire includes more than 45 central baritone parts. Among them are the operas "La Boheme", "Madame Butterfly", "Turandot" by Puccini, "The Pearl Fishers", "Carmen" by Bizet, "The Village Honour" by Mascagni, "Faust" by Gounod, "Elixir of Love", "Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, La Traviata, Don Carlos, Hernani, Attila, Verdi's Otello, Giordano's Andre Chenier, etc.
Ventseslav Anastasov has toured in Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, England, France, Spain, Italy, Greece. He has worked with some of the biggest names in the world of opera such as Lorin Maazel and Zubin Mehta. He has sung at the Metropolitan Opera in Iphigenia in Tauris and with Plácido Domingo at the Teatro Palau de Las Arts in Valencia. His career has taken him through the "Gran Teatro de Liceo" in Barcelona, the Monte Carlo Opera, the Solothurn Festival, among others. Particularly dear to the singer are his appearances in partnership with his brother Orlin Anastasov - the two sang at the premiere of the opera Don Carlos at the Palau de las Arts Valencia with Maestro Lorin Maazel conducting. After that the talented Russians performed together many times at home and abroad.