Name: Чичовци
Start: 2022-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-12-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Sofia Opera

Organization

Conductor

Zhorzh Dimitrov

Stage director

Plamen Kartalov

Assistant Director

Vera Petrova

Vera Beleva

Set designer

Sven Jonke

Assistant Set designer

Vanya Magic

Costume designer

Stanka Vauda

Lighting designer

Ivan Lušičić

Chorus master

Violeta Dimitrova

Repetiteur

Agnes Dankova

CO-REPETITEUR

Stoyan Martinov

Choreographer

Maria Yordanova

Lyudmila Ilieva

Svetlana Ananievska-Yankulova

Video designer

Lora Runevska

Catherine Krasimirova

Vladimir Grancharov

Head of Production

Nela Stoyanova

Stage Manager

Stefka Georgieva

Rumyana Dimitrova

Teodor Georgiev

Vanesa Tsvetkova

Prompter

Draga Machuganska

Translation

Irina Sahatchieva

Subtitles

Julia Krasteva

Project manager

Vladimir Gortchakov

Singer

Baritone

Atanas Mladenov

Хаджи Смион

Tenor

Kostadin Andreev

Иванчо Йотата

Emil Pavlov

Мирончо

Atanas Yonkov

Хаджи Атанасий

Nikolay Pavlov

Варлаам Копринарката Тарилйомът

Bass-baritone

Nikolay Petrov

Иван Селямсъзът

Vesselin Mihaylov

Даскал Гатю

Ventseslav Anastasov

Господин Фратю

Bass

Biser Georgiev

Дядо Поп Ставри

Angel Hristov

Николаки

Krassimir Dinev

Мичо Бейзадето

Soprano

Rada Toteva

Варлаамица

Contralto

Mariana Zvetkova

Селямсъзката

Nikolay Voynov

Бухалът

Angel Antonov

Подидаскал Мироновски

Dimitar Stanchev

Беят

Daniel Ostretsov

Черковен певец

Malin Krastev

Глас

Gergana Rusekova

Stefan Vladimirov

Онбашията

Reinaldo Droz

Sofia Opera & Ballet

Others

Sofia Opera and Ballet Chorus

Orchestra

Sofia Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Ballet

Sofia Opera Ballet

bulgaria

Чичовци -  (Chatterers)

Sofia

Bulgaria

Sofia Opera

Main Hall

Чичовци

Public

Private

Chatterers

englanti

Approved

100 years since the birth of Lazar Nikolov

Libretto by Lazar Nikolov on the dramatization of Metodi Andonov
Contemporary‘s text by Georgi Gospodinov
The scenography of the performance uses caricatures by Boris Dimovski

Orchestra, chorus and ballet of the Sofia Opera

Apart from Sofia, the performance will be presented in Burgas – the birthplace of the composer Lazar Nikolov and in Sopot – the birthplace of Ivan Vazov.

The director Plamen Kartaloff about the first production of “Uncles” on the national opera stage:

“In CHICHOVTSI (Uncles) the composer Lazar Nikolov and the writer Ivan Vazov have a congenial joint authorial presence in the style of modernism, just as in this European trend in the arts is inherent new artistic expression and transformation of reality through new ways of creative thinking.

In both great Bulgarian masters, one of the word, the other of the music, although they lived in different epochs and in the distance of almost a century, one can see an approach ahead of their time in their work. Parody and ironic characterization in both appear as a style of expression in the aspects of the literary and musical language of CHICHOVTSI. Both the music and the lyrics, in the context of the time in which they were written, can be called an avant-garde phenomenon.

What can the style of musical drama transformed for the opera stage be? Isn't the world of the characters a mirror of meaningless chatter of absurd characters? They are frozen in reflection in their time, but also insightful into the future of events that they expect others to walk the path to and accomplish. They do not act, they always rethink in hyperbole fantasy everyday ridiculous events, have fun and try to be courageous, but they are cowards and hiding from the consequences in quarrels with the authorities. The pessimism of the characters is at the same time a pastime in the comfort of slavery, in which they live undisturbed, even happily. This leads them to the refuge of a timelessness in which they will always be eternal and existing in a perpetual motion. Perpetuum mobile chatter, perpetuum mobile quarrels and scandals. They play a game that has no end.

In the DESCENDANTS of St. L. Kostov‘s character Golemanov, we can see more clearly these grown-up CHICHOVTSI.

They have come out of their world of Vazov’s theatre of the absurd, they are still among us...”

English

Esityksen ansiot (Näyttelijät & Tuotantotiimi )

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