UNCLES

2 December /Friday/
Opera Stage
19.00
100 Years Lazar Nikolay
Sofia Opera and Ballet
UNCLES
Opera Satire by Lazar Nikolov
after the eponymous novelette by Ivan Vazov
Libretto Lazar Nikolov based on the dramatization by Metody Andonov
Text by the contemporary Georgi Gospodinov
In the design of the spectacle are used caricatures by Boris Dimovski
Conductor Zhorzh Dimitrov
Director Plamen Kartaloff
Assistant-Directors Vera Petrova, Vera Beleva
Scenographer Sven Jonke
Assistant-Scenographer Vanya Magich
Costume Artist Stanka Vauda
Lighting Design – Agnes Dankova
Musical Preparation – Agnes Donkova
Plastic Etudes – Lyudmila Ilieva, Mariya Yordanova
Choir Conductor Violeta Dimitrova

Roles and Performers
Hadzhi Smion – Atanas Mladenov
Ivancho Yotata – Kostadin Andreev
Mironcho – Emil Pavlov
Hadzhi Atanasiy – Atanas Yonkov
Varlaam – Nikolay Pavlov
Ivan Selyamsazat – Nikolay Petrov
Teacher Gatyu – Veselin Mihaylov
Mister Fratyu – Ventseslav Anastasov
Grandfather Pop Stavri – Biser Georgiev
Nikollaki – Angel Hristov
Micho Beyzadeto – Krasimir Dinev
Varlaamitsa – Rada Toteva
Selyamsazkata – Gergana Rusekova
The Bey – Dimitar Stanchev
The Onbashiya – Stefan Vladimirov
The Owl – Nikolay Voynov
Podidaskal Mironovski – Angel Antonov
Church Singers – Reynaldo Droz, Daniel Ostretsov, Rosen Nentchev
Telling Rumours – Stanislava Momekova, Aleksandrina Stoyanova, Vesela Yaneva
Medical Staff – Aleksandar Georgiev, Georgi Dzhankov, Kalin Dushkov, Rosen Nenchev,
Piano – Agnes Dankova
Violin – Aleksandar Ilchev
Voice of the Contemporary – Malin Krastev
Declaration by Vazov – Mihail Bilalov

Orchestra, Choir and Ballet of the Sofia Opera
With the participation of children from the vocal-theater formation “Talasamche” led by Dimitar Konstantsaliev

Performed in Bulgarian

In “Uncles” by the composer Lazar Nikolov and writer Ivan Vazov there is a congenial cooperative authors’ presence in the style of Modernism, just like in this European movement in the arts it has a typical new aesthetic expression and re-creation of reality, through new ways of creative thinking. In both great Bulgarian masters, one of the words, the other of music, though they lived in different epochs and in the distance of almost a century, we see an approach in their creative work which is ahead of their time. The parody and the ironic characteristic with both of them appears as a style of expression in the aspects of the literary and musical language of “UNCLES”. Both the music and the text in the context of the time, we can call avanguard phenomenon.”
Plamen Kartaloff
Director
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