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Photo: “Валкюра” © Софийска опера и балет / “Walküre” © Sofia Opera & Ballet House 29 Nov 2025 / simskultur.eu The fact that one of the most renowned Wagner festivals in Europe takes place in the heart of the Bulgarian … Continue reading →

21 Nov 2025 / Sofia Opera and Ballet Reviews of the Sofia Opera’s tour in Zagreb Last night, the Croatian National television broadcasted review footage on the Third international opera festival which took place from the 9th to the 20th … Continue reading →

20 Nov 2025 / Sofia Opera and Ballet An unforgettable evening at the Sofia Opera Asmik Grigoryan shone with six arias and an encore under the conductorship of maestro Daniel Oren: just a day after she was awarded with the … Continue reading →

onlinemerker.com / Klaus Billand, Rio de Janeiro, 30. September 2025   Kommentare zur Bestellung des Regisseurs für den Bayreuther „Ring des Nibelungen“ 2028  Wieder Regisseurstheater Vor kurzem verkündete die Festspielleitung der Bayreuther Festspiele, dass der russische Regisseur Vasily Alexeevich Barkhatov den neuen „Ring“ … Continue reading →

28 Sep 2025Sofia Opera and Ballet A ten-minute applause and a grand opening of the season at the Sofia Opera, a wave of exalted “Bravo!” shouts for all participants After the Sofia Opera’s triumphant tours in Japan and the wild … Continue reading →

  28 Sep 2025Sofia Opera and Ballet A grand opening of the new season at the Sofia Opera ✨ A wave of exalted “Bravo!” shouts greeted all participants in the “Tosca” performance by Giacomo Puccini under the directorship of Plamen … Continue reading →

27 Sep 2025BNT, report by Miglena Stoycheva World-famous opera artists open the new season in Sofia: a coverage by Miglena Stoicheva Miglena Stoicheva, BNT After the Sofia Opera opened its new season abroad with its participation at the international opera … Continue reading →

26 Sep 2025BNT, report by Miglena Stoycheva The opera “Tosca” on the 26th and 28th of September at the Sofia Opera and Ballet: a coverage by Miglena Stoicheva Miglena Stoicheva, BNT The Sofia Opera opens its new season today with … Continue reading →

  23 Sep 2025 Sofia Opera and Ballet Today at club “Opera”, a press conference was held regarding the new season 2025/26 at the Sofia Opera and Ballet Present was acad. Plamen Kartaloff, director of the Sofia Opera; Marta Petkova, … Continue reading →

15 Sep 2025BNT, report by Miglena Stoycheva The Bulgarian “Die Walküre” enchanted the stage at the Croatian national theater: a coverage by Miglena Stoicheva This night, the Croatian national theater raises the curtains on the visiting Bulgarian production of “Die … Continue reading →

14 Sep 2025Sofia Opera and Ballet The Sofia Opera tours the opera festival in Zagreb, Croatia with “Die Walküre” by Richard Wagner   On the 15th of September, 6pm, Plamen Kartaloff’s production will be performed on the Croatian national theater … Continue reading →

  14 Sep 2025BNT, Miglena Stoycheva The Sofia Opera opens its season abroad with a visit to the international opera festival in Zagreb: a coverage from Zagreb by Miglena Stoicheva, BNT A coverage from Zagreb by Miglena Stoicheva, BNT   … Continue reading →

02 May 2025BNT “The Bolshoi Direction”: A film on the Sofia Opera’s tour On the 4th of May, at 22:30, on BNT 2, the premiere of the documentary “The Bolshoi Direction” will take place: it follows the Sofia Opera’s tour … Continue reading →

01 May 2025 BNT  “The Bolshoi Direction” A movie on the Sofia Opera’s tour at the Bolshoi theater in Moscow The Sofia Opera and Ballet visited the Bolshoi theater in Moscow: one of the most prestigious music stages in the … Continue reading →

  30 Apr 2025Sofia Opera and Ballet Video: A huge success for the Sofia Opera in Poland Last night, on the 29th of April, the Sofia Opera presented “Elektra” by Richard Strauss at the 31st International opera festival in Bydgoszcz, … Continue reading →

  30 Apr 2025Sofia Opera and Ballet A huge success for the Sofia Opera in Poland Last night, on the 29th of April, the Sofia Opera presented “Elektra” by Richard Strauss at the 31st International opera festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland. … Continue reading →

29 Apr 2025Sofia Opera and Ballet31st Opera festival at Bydgoszcz, Poland On the 29th of April, the Sofia Opera will present “Elektra” by Richard Strauss at the 31st opera festival in Bydgoszcz. Production: Plamen Kartaloff. Conductor: Evan-Alexis Christ. Starring: Gergana … Continue reading →

29 Apr 2025Sofia Opera and Ballet On the 29th of April, the Sofia Opera will present “Elektra” by Richard Strauss at the 31st opera festival in Bydgoszcz. Production: Plamen Kartaloff. Conductor: Evan-Alexis Christ. Starring: Gergana Rusekova (Clytemnestra), Lilia Kehayova (Elektra), … Continue reading →

Photo: Софийска опера и балет Published on 31.03.22 at 16:16 Bulgarian National Radio Author: Rositsa Kavaldzhieva For three years – from 2017 to 2019, I was following the opera festival “Bartók Plus” in the Hungarian city of Miskolc, where each … Continue reading →

28 Mar 2022 – Bulgarian Telegraph Agency / Daniel Stoyanov The Sofia Opera presents on 1 and 3 April “Parsifal” – the last opera written by Wagner, which is considered the best. In this mythological drama of the musical genius, … Continue reading →

Calendar 26 Mar 2022 Sofia Opera and Ballet I would say that every work that Acad. Plamen Kartaloff stages has always been an event for me. “Chatterers” differs from other events with exceptional attractiveness and relevance at the same time. … Continue reading →

04 Mar 2022Lupa.bg   Author: Marina Chertova In Plamen Kartaloff’s prophetic and original spectacle, the characters reveal the eternal Bulgarian crossroads The contemporary quarrels between the big countries in the world were interweaved in an original way in the opera … Continue reading →

Calendar Photo: А пътят към Бога е в ремонт. 06 Mar 2022, Trud newspaper Author: Angela Dimcheva See gallery Premiere at the Sofia Opera and Ballet “Nepotism” goes behind the frames of everyday life, beyond the time cliché of the … Continue reading →

On the eve of the National Holiday of Bulgaria, the Sofia Opera presented the premiere of the opera satire “Chatterers” by Lazar Nikolov based on Ivan Vazov’s novel of the same name! Full hall, unceasing applause for the soloists, the … Continue reading →

14 Feb 2022Lupa.bg / Marina Chertova The Director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet Acad. Plamen Kartaloff was part of the prestigious jury of the Competizione dell’opera International Singing Competition, which this year was held at the Bolshoi Theatre in … Continue reading →

15 Feb 2022 BTA Georgi Gospodinov is part of the team of the upcoming premiere spectacle “Chatterers” at Sofia Opera, reported the Director Plamen Kartaloff. “I am happy that he accepted to take part with a short additional text, which … Continue reading →

    Today, 15 February at 11 h, at the Sofia Opera and Ballet took place a press conference, dedicated to the premiere of the opera-satire “Chatterers” by Lazar Nikolov.At the press conference were present journalists from different medias, the … Continue reading →

The whole interview with Acad. Plamen Kartaloff you can hear from the sound file: 16 Feb 2022 BNR, “Horizont” Acad. Plamen Kartaloff The opera “Chatterers” by the composer Lazar Nikolov after the short novel of the same name by Ivan … Continue reading →

Eurocom TV, 15.02.2022, Zlatina Petkova Hardly seven years after the Liberation, the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature Ivan Vazov looked back to the past years, in order to tell, through laughter, the being of his fellow-citizens from Sopot, inhabiting still captive … Continue reading →

23 Feb 2022EUROCOM, Video report Eurocom TV, 15.02.2022, Zlatina Petkova Hardly seven years after the Liberation, the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature Ivan Vazov looked back to the past years, in order to tell, through laughter, the being of his fellow-citizens … Continue reading →

 lupa.bg, Author: Marina Chertova Ivan Vazov’s colourful characters from his humoristic short novel “Chatterers” change the Dzhakovoto café with a luxury sanatorium. This is part of the director’s concept of Acad. Plamen Kartaloff, who stages at Sofia Opera the music … Continue reading →

Bulgaria ON AIR Upcoming is a world premiere of the opera “Chatterers” by Lazar Nikolov based on Vazov’s famous short novel. “We had to stage “Chatterers” in the 80’s. 10 years after its composition at that time, I wonder if … Continue reading →

SOFIA Götterdämmerung 22. Mai Es ist geschafft. Pünktlich am 200. Geburtstag von Richard Wagner am 22. Mai kam der letzte Teil der „Ring“-Tetralogie in Sofia zur Aufführung – eine bewundernswerte und hoch zu lobende Leistung des Opernhauses. Die dortige Wagner-Tradition … Continue reading →

04 JAN 2021 GRADAT Magazine Acad. Plamen Kartaloff, Director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet: The Sofia Opera at the age of 130 Maestro Kartaloff, we congratulate you for the impressive development of the Sofia Opera and Ballet in the … Continue reading →

Сряда, 18 юли 2018 The beloved jukebox musical is heading to Bulgaria! Under the direction of Plamen Kartalov, Mamma Mia! heads to the Sofia Opera and Ballet tonight, July 18, 2018, and close at the Sofia Opera and Ballet on … Continue reading →

21./22. Juli 2017 Die Belogradchik Peaks, also die Felsen von Belogradchik im äußersten Nordwesten Bulgariens, sind turmartige Felsformationen, die sich hier seit dem Perm vor ungefähr 230 Millionen Jahren durch tektonische Bewegungen und anschließende Erosion formten und die verschiedensten Felsfiguren … Continue reading →

Monday, 27 November 2017 Alexandrina Pendatchanska will sing Tosca for the first time The world-known opera singer Alexandrina Pendatchanska will perform for the first time in her star career the role of Floria Tosca on the stage of the Sofia … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Tuesday, 21 November 2017 The soprano Tanya Ivanova: “I am happy that I will sing the role of Floria Tosca in Plamen Kartaloff’s staging, which evoked the ovations of the Japanese audience in 2012” The music critique wrote about the … Continue reading →

Monday, 20 November 2017 On the fifth tour of the Sofia Opera and Ballet in Japan, from 30 October to 21 November 2012, was presented the new production of the opera “Tosca” by Academician Plamen Kartaloff, and also “Cavalleria rusticana” … Continue reading →

Friday, 17 November 2017 The famous far behind the Bulgarian borders tenor Kamen Chanev will be guest as Mario Cavaradossi in “Tosca” by Puccini on 8 December at 19.00 h and on 10 December at 16.00 h. Kamen Chanev was … Continue reading →

Friday, 17 November 2017 The world-known opera prima Alexandrina Pendatchanska will sing again on the stage of the Sofia Opera and Ballet. On 8 and 10 December she will be Floria Tosca in Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Tosca”. Her partner will … Continue reading →

Wednesday, 15 November 2017 Please expect at the Sofia Opera “Tosca”, а spectacle, which conquered Japan On the fifth tour of the Sofia Opera and Ballet in Japan, from 30 October to 21 November 2012, was presented the new production … Continue reading →

Wednesday, 15 November 2017 Alexandrina Pendatchanska will sing Tosca at the Sofia Opera on 8 and 10 December The world-known prima Alexandrina Pendatchanska will sing again at the Sofia Opera and Ballet – on 8 and 10 December she will … Continue reading →

Thursday, 09 November 2017 Interview with the conductor Keitaro Harada – Mr. Harada, what are your first impressions from the meeting with the Sofia Opera, with its atmosphere, with our singers, orchestra and chorus? This is my first time in … Continue reading →

Monday, 06 November 2017 For the 21st year in succession the Union of Bulgarian Musicians and Dancers and Classic FM Radio organized an official ceremony, at which were handed out the national awards for music and dance art “Crystal Lyre … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 07 November 2017 The breaking off the social and folk-style pictures makes the opera close to the people of today The audience has long awaited “Carmen” on the stage of our first opera theatre. Not because according to the … Continue reading →

Sunday, 29 October 2017 A FEELING OF THE MISSION OF CULTURE AND SPIRITUALITY He is not only one of the young conductors, who win many prizes and are appreciated highly for their professionalism and artistic abilities. He has a feeling … Continue reading →

Thursday, 26 October 2017

Tuesday, 24 October 2017 The famous love story is like an ancient tragedy With “Carmen” the company will be guest-performer next year in Japan. On 3 November the Sofia Opera and Ballet will present the premiere of the opera “Carmen” … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 24 October 2017 Plamen Kartaloff presents “Carmen” of the Sofia Opera in Japan The upcoming on 3 November premiere of “Carmen” of the Sofia Opera and Ballet will be presented in October 2018 on a tour in Japan, together … Continue reading →

Sunday, 22 October 2017 THE WORLD-KNOWN MEZZO-SOPRANO WILL ACT IN PLAMEN KARTALOFF’S NEW PRODUCTION After the opening of the season of the Sofia Opera with “Parsifal” by Richard Wagner, the beginning of the new season offers to the audience one … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 17 October 2017 Riccardo Zanellato was born in Contarina, in the province of Rovigo, Italy. He graduated in guitar at the Conservatory of Adria in 1994. Passion for singing was born in him in the period of his military … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 17 October 2017 Music, text and theatre of movement are the basic trinity of the principles of the classical Greek tragedy. All genres of the arts in the epoch of Renaissance were irrevocably resurrected from it. In our new … Continue reading →

Thursday, 12 October 2017 In the beginning of November, on 3 November at 19:00 h, at the Sofia Opera is upcoming the premiere of the opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet. The next premieres will be on 4, 5, 9, 11 … Continue reading →

Monday, 09 October 2017 the great Maestro, friend and co-creator of one of the most audacious, courageous and successful artistic projects of the Sofia Opera – Wagner’s tetralogy “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, “Tristan und Isolde” and “Parsifal”. THEY CAME TRUE … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 03 October 2017 The Japanese Keitaro Harada will conduct the premiere of “Carmen” on 3 November at the Sofia Opera The conductor Keitaro Harada will conduct the premiere of the opera “Carmen” on 3 November at the Sofia Opera … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 26 September 2017 Richard Wagner’s famous opera “Parsifal” will open the season at the Sofia Opera on 1 October. The choice wasn’t made by chance. Wagner’s last opera was shown for the first time in Bulgaria in July and … Continue reading →

Monday, 25 September 2017 Parsifal” is the last music drama by Richard Wagner, presented for the first time on stage on 26 July 1882, at the Bayreuth Festival, production of Hermann Levy, but presented for the first time at European … Continue reading →

Monday, 18 September 2017 Isn’t it an act of heroism to forge the ring of great art, when the streets are a real barricade? When cries are deafening the music, when in front of the temple of the opera the … Continue reading →

Sunday, 17 September 2017 NEWSPAPER “TELEGRAPH”, 12.08.2017, page 13 The Director of the Sofia Opera Plamen Kartaloff”: WAGNER ALSO BROUGHT US WORLD RECOGNITION – Acad. Kartaloff, by a huge interest of the audience from the entire country and abroad finished … Continue reading →

Sunday, 17 September 2017 Academician Plamen Kartaloff is the first Bulgarian opera director, invited to make his own production in the frames of the prestigious Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Italy. At that the Foundation, which organized the music … Continue reading →

Wednesday, 13 September 2017

Monday, 11 September 2017

Monday, 11 September 2017

Monday, 11 September 2017 Bulgarian National Radio – Two new productions of Bulgarian works presents the Sofia Opera and Ballet The Director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet Academician Plamen Kartaloff presented in front of the audience of broadcasting “Horizont” … Continue reading →

Thursday, 17 August 2017 Die Belogradchik Peaks, also die Felsen von Belogradchik im äußersten Nordwesten Bulgariens, sind turmartige Felsformationen, die sich hier seit dem Perm vor ungefähr 230 Millionen Jahren durch tektonische Bewegungen und anschließende Erosion formten und die verschiedensten … Continue reading →

Thursday, 17 August 2017 On 8 July this year a special event was held in Sofia for two reasons: the first performances of Richard Wgner’s opera Parsifal in Bulgaria happened to coincide with the presentation of the Bulgarian edition of … Continue reading →

Thursday, 17 August 2017 Die Belogradchik Peaks, also die Felsen von Belogradchik im äußersten Nordwesten Bulgariens, sind turmartige Felsformationen, die sich hier seit dem Perm vor ungefähr 230 Millionen Jahren durch tektonische Bewegungen und anschließende Erosion formten und die verschiedensten … Continue reading →

Saturday, 29 July 2017 Wohl kein Ort zur Aufführung einer Oper bzw. Veranstaltung eines Opernfestivals ist dem Intendanten der Sofia Oper und Ballett, Acad. Plamen Kartaloff, exotisch genug, um es nicht einmal damit zu versuchen – und er hat dabei … Continue reading →

Monday, 24 July 2017

Sunday, 16 July 2017 programata.bg – Opera of the Peaks is by the Belogradchik Rocks The world didn’t choose them for one of its new seven wonders, but the director Plamen Kartaloff voted trust to the painting in the Belogradchik … Continue reading →

Sunday, 16 July 2017 BGNES – Acad. Plamen Kartaloff: The 180th Anniversary of the Apostle – with the almost forgotten “Oratorio-Requiem “Vasil Levski” by Boyan Ikonomov I set myself a task to discover one work from Bulgarian composer, who wrote … Continue reading →

Sunday, 16 July 2017 Parsifal / Staatsoper Sofia: Premiere 4. Juli und Derniere 10. Juli 2017 (P. Reichl, dzt. Sofia) Auch 134 Jahre nach dem Tod Richard Wagners gibt es noch bemerkenswerte weisse Flecken auf den Landkarten seiner Rezeption, und … Continue reading →

Friday, 14 July 2017 Firma la regia dello spettacolo Plamen Kartaloff che così definisce la partitura ”la musica brucia di emozione, passione, ironia, seduzione in ogni battuta e in ogni segno della partitura” Sul podio Beatrice Venezi alla guida di … Continue reading →

Sunday, 09 July 2017 Haidouk Velko, Adam and Eva, the Madonna and the monks. The thousand years old scenery of the Belogradchik Rocks was stage of battles and revolts, of happy celebrations and fairs, it saw the apogee and the … Continue reading →

Sunday, 09 July 2017 Haidouk Velko, Adam and Eva, the Madonna and the monks. The thousand years old scenery of the Belogradchik Rocks was stage of battles and revolts, of happy celebrations and fairs, it saw the apogee and the … Continue reading →

Sunday, 09 July 2017 With admiration music lovers from the country and such, who have arrived specially from abroad, welcomed the first Bulgarian production of Wagner’s mystery “Parsifal”, which gave a possibility of our first opera theatre to prove, that … Continue reading →

Sunday, 09 July 2017 Meanwhile the National Opera Sofia has made itself an international name with its worth seeing important works by Richard Wagner, always as Bulgarian first performances. At that great value was and is placed on a substantial … Continue reading →

Saturday, 08 July 2017 The Wagnerians enjoy the spectacles on 6, 8 and 10 July at 18 h The Sofia Opera and Ballet creates a triumph in succession – the unique spectacle “Parsifal”. Richard Wagner’s masterpiece is an international event … Continue reading →

Saturday, 08 July 2017

Wednesday, 05 July 2017 Bildergebnis für sofia opera and ballet Yesterday evening Wagner‘s sacred festival drama “Parsifal” celebrated its considerable first performance in Bulgaria at the Sofia Opera and Ballet, which – as here one often reports – appeared during … Continue reading →

Wednesday, 05 July 2017

Sunday, 02 July 2017 The Sofia Opera and Ballet with two festivals in Belogradchik and in Vidin in the end of July and in the beginning of August. The innovative idea of the director Plamen Kartaloff – “Opera of the … Continue reading →

Sunday, 02 July 2017 The work by Maestro G. Atanasov marked the beginning of the celebrations at the occasion of 830 years of the Lovech peace With endless applauses citizens and guests of Lovech saw off the performance of the … Continue reading →

Sunday, 02 July 2017

Sunday, 18 June 2017

Saturday, 17 June 2017 With the famous opera “Borislav” by Maestro Georgi Atanasov, the Sofia Opera opens the celebrations for the 830th Anniversary of the signing of the Lovech peace – beginning of the Second Bulgarian state With the production … Continue reading →

Friday, 16 June 2017 The three pupils of the National School of Fine Arts “Ilia Petrov” will be present at the premiere of Wagner’s last opera Unusually started the press conference at the Sofia Opera, dedicated to the upcoming premiere … Continue reading →

Friday, 16 June 2017 As an event, accompanying the premiere of “Parsifal” by Richard Wagner, on 8 July, Saturday, 2017 at 11.00 h in the Marble Foyer of the Sofia Opera and Ballet after the invitation of the Antroposophical Society … Continue reading →

Friday, 09 June 2017

Monday, 05 June 2017 On three stages will be the Summer Festival of the Sofia Opera and Ballet “Fortress of the Ages”, which will be held in August in Vidin. The spectacles will be on a barge in the Danube … Continue reading →

Friday, 19 May 2017 The well-known Bulgarian musician Georgi Dimitrov will conduct both spectacles of “Rigoletto” by G. Verdi at the Sofia Opera on 19 and 20 May at 19:00 h His musical education began by the well-known violin pedagogue … Continue reading →

Friday, 12 May 2017 10.05.2017 /17:13 | Author: Iveta Balevska | Source: Union of Bulgarian Journalists / Sofia Opera For a second year the Sofia Opera and ballet starts a project, directed to the uniting and the popularization of the … Continue reading →

Friday, 12 May 2017 Open rehearsal of “Parsifal” for the upcoming premiere Dozens most enthusiastic Wagnerians with impatience waited till the next unique experience at the Sofia Opera. This time – under the form of the first open director’s rehearsal … Continue reading →

Monday, 08 May 2017

Wednesday, 19 April 2017

Monday, 10 April 2017 On the bright holiday, artists will present the concert “Masterpieces of the Musical Treasury for Children” On 8 April, at 10:30 h, at the Sofia Opera and ballet is upcoming the opening of the new Chamber … Continue reading →

Monday, 10 April 2017