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Ventseslav Anastasov

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Deyan Vatchkov

Don Giovanni

Geo Chobanov

Linka Stoyanova

Arseniy Arsov

Hrisimir Damyanov

Daniela Dimova

Ina Petrova

Eugeniy Stanimirov

Plamen Dimitrov

Svilen Nikolov

Ilina Mihaylova

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Viliana Valtcheva

Stage director

Aleksandar Tekeliev

Borislav Ivanov

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Ivan Popov

Choreographer

Jelka Tabakova

Chorus master

Stefan Boyadzhiev

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Varna

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Don Giovanni Mozart

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Don Juan Vesela Drama in two actions Decree conductor - Director Borislav Ivanov director Alexander Tekeliev Soprano Don Don Otavio fiancé of Dona Anna Arseniy Arsov - Tenor Dona Elvira abandoned Don Juan Ina Petrova - Sopran Leporelo servant of Don Juan Evgeni Stanimirov - bass village Plamen Dimitrov - Bariton Tserlina Mazeta Mauser peasants, servants, guests, dancers, dancers, musicians. The action takes place in Spain in the mid-seventeenth century Libretto Lorenzo da Ponte. Second premiere in the history of Varna Opera - February 24, 2014. The first premiere was on July 13 and 18, 2005 within the framework of the Varna Summer IMF. TABLE OF CONTENTS FIRST ACTION Leporello, the servant of Don Juan, stands guard in front of the Commander's house, where his master has secretly infiltrated. Noise is heard from the house. An unknown man has entered Donna Anna's house and is trying to seduce her. She resists desperately and cries for help. The Commander runs up to his daughter, who enters into a duel with the stranger. After a short duel, the Commander falls to his death, stabbed by Don Juan. Donna Anna called her fiancé Don Ottavio for help, but it was too late. They swear revenge on the killer. Don Juan quickly forgot about his troubles with the Commander and embarked on adventures again. Leporello begs him to change this life. Donna Elvira approaches them. The cunning seducer immediately starts courting the unknown lady. However, when he knows his abandoned mistress in her, he hurries to get rid of her and escapes unnoticed. Leporello tells the deceived woman about his master's countless adventures and advises her not to grieve for him. Outraged by the insidiousness of her ex-lover, Donna Elvira threatens to take revenge for her insulted honor.

DON JUAN - Mozart Opera - STATE OPERA - Varna

For his short but very intense life, which began as a child prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote more than 700 works. There is no field of musical art in which he does not create works of the highest value and lasting significance. PI Tchaikovsky writes about him: "Mozart is the highest culmination point, which has reached the beauty of music."

Mozart is the author of 22 operas, 50 symphonies, 7 concertos for violin and orchestra, 23 concertos for piano and orchestra, sonatas for violin, piano and organ, quartets, quintets, 70 vocal-symphonic works, cantatas, oratorios, masses, one Requiem and others.

One of the most attractive images for artists from all fields of art is Don Juan. He became the hero of a huge number of works of art - operas, ballets, operettas, dramas, comedies, novels, poems, paintings, sculptures, symphonies and more. For the first time, the legend of the tireless adventurer and conqueror of women's hearts finds a place as the plot of a stage work in the play "The Seducer of Seville" (1630) by Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina. After him, writers, including Moliere, Goldoni, Hoffman, Byron, Merimee and Pushkin, composers such as Gluck, Dargomizhsky and Richard Strauss created works on the same subject. One of the most significant of them remains Mozart's opera.

In January 1787, Mozart went with his wife to Prague on holiday with his friend and great admirer Count Thun. There, the director of the Prague Bondini Theater offered the composer to write an opera for a fee of one hundred ducats.
Mozart accepted the offer and turned to the court librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. The poet quickly composed the libretto and in May this year the composer began work on the music of "Don Juan". Legends are told about the speed with which this opera was completed.
One of them is that Mozart wrote the wonderful overture on the day of the premiere - on September 29, 1787 in Prague. The show was an incredible success. The following year the opera was presented in Vienna, and for the Austrian production Mozart made some corrections to the score.

The opera "Don Juan" is one of the peaks in the creative achievements of the genius composer. This musical-scenic work is a rarely successful combination of dramatic and comic opera. The author himself calls it "Jocozo drama" (cheerful drama).
The dramatic construction of the work shows Mozart's unique sense of stage action. At the same time, all musical numbers are the highest perfection of the musical form. The images are bright, embossed and vivid, sculpted with unique mastery.
And the overture of Don Juan is one of his greatest and most significant overtures, also one of Mozart's most frequently performed orchestral works.

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Don Giovanni by Mozart, From (2014/2014), Directed by Aleksandar Tekeliev,, Conductor Viliana Valtcheva, Borislav Ivanov, Opera Theatre, Varna, Bulgaria

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