A huge success for the Sofia Opera in Poland

Last night, on the 29^th of April, the Sofia Opera presented “Elektra” by Richard Strauss at the 31^st International opera festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

After the opera’s finale, the audience was up on its feet and wildly applauded the singers, the orchestra, the conductor and the performance’s director. The frenetic ovations and “Bravo!” shouts kept the artists on stage for a long time.

Starring: Gergana Rusekova (Clytemnestra), Lilia Kehayova (Elektra), Radostina Nikolaeva (Hrisothemis), Daniel Ostretsov (Egoist), Atanas Mladenov (Orest) as well as Angel Hristov, Stanislava Momekova, Diana Vasileva, Rosen Nenchev, Stefan Vladimirov, Silvana Pravcheva, Vesela Yaneva, Violeta Radomirska, Alexandrina Stoyanova-Andreeva, Ina Petrova, Maria Pavlova.

Conductor of the Sofia Opera orchestra: Evan-Alexis Christ. Production: Plamen Kartaloff. Scenography: Sven Jonke. Assistant director: Vera Petrova.

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The Sofia Opera will tour this festival for the third time. In 1997, the opera “Il Guarany” by Antônio Carlos Gomes was performed there and in 2018: “Prince Igor” by Alexander Borodin.

In 2023, the production of “Elektra” by Richard Strauss received the Grand prize at the 20^th International opera festival in Tegu, South Korea.

The Sofia Opera’s production of “Elektra” will once again be performed on one of the most prestigious international stages: at the traditional opera festival at the “Kemal Ataturk” cultural center in Istanbul, Turkey.