On the eve of June 1, children from the Masha Ilieva Ballet School will present Ariel , a performance inspired by the beloved animated film The Little Mermaid . The performance is on May 29 at 7 pm in the Sofia Opera and Ballet ...
“Nocturnal characters” – this is the title of an exposition dedicated to Bulgarian theatre, which will be presented on 23 March in the historic centre of Rome, Italy. The exhibition is one of the most notable projects connected with the European..
With a quarter of an hour of applause finished the first performance of Richard Wagner's Valkyrie at the Königswinkel Music Festival in Füssen, Germany, near Neuschwanstein Castle by the Sofia National Opera. Sofia National Opera presents..
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself. (The Dance of Life by Havelock Ellis) Life itself in the form of dance will flare up..
The International Ballet Festival Varna 2023 opens today in the Festival and Congress Center - Varna. The forum gives dancing young people the opportunity to appear on stage and acquire knowledge and skills in master classes of..
A pearl has been added to the repertoire of the ballet of the Bulgarian National Opera – the ballet “Anna Karenina”. With this year's most important ballet premiere just having triumphantly marched for a second round in April - all performances sold..
Days ago the prima ballerina of the National Opera Marta Petkova celebrated her 37th birthday with new roles - both in life and in art. As of October 2022, the star has accepted the post of artistic director of the Sofia Opera Ballet - a..
"Anna Karenina", the ballet by the enormously successful Croatian choreographer Leo Mujić, shot like a meteorite into the Bulgarian cultural space last summer. The choreography tailored to Piotr Tchaikovsky's music, and based on the eponymous novel..
Today we celebrate 70 years since the founding of the State Ballet School in Sofia (today’s National School of Dance Art). It was opened at the initiative of the founder of professional ballet in Bulgaria, Anastas Petrov , with the..
The new season of the Sofia Opera is dedicated to the 130 th anniversary of the establishment of the first opera company in Bulgaria. The year was 1890, shortly after Bulgaria’s Liberation from five centuries of Ottoman oppression,..
