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News публикувана на: 28.04.2015
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PRESS RELEASE
From next week the rehearsals for the upcoming premiere of the opera "Il Trovatore" by Giuseppe Verdi on the stage of the State Opera Stara Zagora start with a much stronger pace. It is a great pleasure to announce that we are expecting Maestro Martin Panteleev, Chief Conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, who will work together with the orchestra, soloists and chorus of the Stara Zagora State Opera on the musical score of this great opera by Verdi. The director of the performance will be Georgi Dinev. This is his debut in staging an opera title. We wish him from the bottom of our hearts success - the same as his directorial debut in Phantoms of the Musical. And even greater-according to the size of Verdi's masterpiece. The second conductor is Krassimir Kashev.
The changes in the creative team of "Troubadour" are after the retirement of Georgi Dimitrov - at his request and for personal reasons - as chief conductor of the State Opera-Stara Zagora. There are no new names among the soloists appointed for the two premiere performances. The Stara Zagora audience will have the extraordinary pleasure to see and hear outstanding artists such as Ventsislav Anastasov, Daniela Dyakova, Elena Baramova, Linka Stoyanova, Ivan Kabamitov and others - in the two equal ensembles on the premiere dates - 22 and 25 May.
Today the director of the Opera Ognyan Draganov was presented to the mayor of Stara Zagora Zhivko Todorov and deputy mayor Ivanka Sotirova. His first press conference for the media will be joint, around 11 May.
MARTIN PANTELEEV was born in Sofia into a family of musicians. From the age of 4 he began studying violin, from 1983 to 1995 he studied at the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School. He continued his education at the NMA "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" in the violin class of prof. He also studied conducting and composition under Prof. Acad. Vasil Kazandjiev and prof. He studied with Prof. Vassili Kazanjirov and Prof. Plamen Djurov. Later he also completed the master classes of prof. Bron in Hamburg and prof. И. Neumann in Mainz and London. Prof. Vladi Simeonov appreciated his talent early on, in 1985 he invited him as concertmaster of the Pioneer Youth Philharmonic and at the age of 9 Martin gave his first concerts in Italy, Greece, Brazil and Russia. Since 1999, as second conductor of the prestigious Philharmonia of Nations, founded by Leonard Bernstein and Justus Franz, he has given over 1000 concerts in Europe, Asia and the USA.
Following his successful conducting debut in 2004 with the Sofia Philharmonic, he was invited to be Principal Guest Conductor, and since the 2011/2012 season has been Principal Conductor of the orchestra. He has worked with more than 30 orchestras, including the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Leche Symphony Orchestra (Italy), etc. He has performed in the famous concert halls of the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and has participated in the Rheingau Musik Festival, the MDR Musiksommer and the Schleswig Holstein Festival.
GEORGI DINEV has been a soloist of the Stara Zagora State Opera since 2003. In 1997 he graduated from NATFA "Krastio Sarafov", majoring in Acting for Puppet Theatre in the class of prof. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Bonnyo Lungov. In 1998 he was admitted to NMA "Pancho Vladigerov", where he graduated in musical stage direction. He has been studying singing since 1998 as a private student of Assoc. Konstantsa Vachkova.
He is a laureate of the First Competition for Young Operetta and Musical Artists "Mimi Balkanska". He began his professional stage performances as a student at NATFA - his debut was on the stage of the State Theatre "St. He made his debut at the Teatr Makedonski in 1995 in the role of Jan Bibiyan from Dimitar Valchev's musical of the same name. He was accepted as a soloist of the theatre, where he performed until July 2000. In 2001,2002 and 2003 he participated in over 80 concerts and performances in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, USA, Denmark. Since 2003 he has been a soloist of the Stara Zagora State Opera. In his repertoire are the roles: Macduff - "Macbeth", Alfred - "La Traviata" by Verdi; Goro and Pinkerton - "Madame Butterfly", Rodolfo - "Bohemi", Pang and Pong - "Turandot" by Puccini; Nemorino - "Elixir of Love", Arturo - "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Donizetti; Don Ottavio - "Don Giovanni", Don Basilio and Don Curzio - "The Marriage of Figaro", Monostatos - "The Magic Flute" by Mozart; Bonnie - "The Queen of Chardache", Tony - "The Princess of the Circus" by Kalman; Ottokar - "The Gypsy Baron", Alfred - "The Bat" by Strauss - Son; Calchas and Menelaus - "The Beautiful Helena" by Offenbach; Bebbs - "Charlie's Aunt" by Felzmann", etc.
He directed the concert performance "The Phantoms of Opera", staged on 5 October 2013 at the State Opera - Stara Zagora. Georgi Dinev appears on the stages of all opera and operetta theatres in Bulgaria, as well as on concert podiums. He is currently graduating in Art Management at the AMTII - Plovdiv.
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