2024 – 2010
2021 – world premiere of the ballet “Pilate’s Dream” by Stefan Dimitrov

2019 – a premiere for Bulgaria is the performance of “L’Africaine” by Giacomo Meyerbeer, coproduction with the Berlin State Opera

2018 – with the ballet “Fire Walker” is marked the 110 th anniversary of its author, the composer Marin Goleminov; jointly with the Academic Circus “Balkanski” is inaugurated “Opera in the Circus” with the production of “Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncavallo; in cooperation with the Stara Zagora
Puppet Theater is the beginning of “Opera with Puppets” with the production of “Turandot” by Giacomo Puccini and “Faust” by Charles Gounod /2022/

2017 – world premiere of the opera-musical “Sisi – the Soul of an Empress” by the Austrian composer Roland Baumgartner

2016 – in assistance with the Football Club “Beroe” is set the beginning of “Opera in the Stadium” with the opera “Aida” /2016 and 2021/ and “Nabucco” by Giuseppe Verdi, as well as “Carmen” by Georges Bizet

2013 – “Dido and Aeneas” is the first meeting of the Stara Zagora citizens with Henry Purcell and his opera

2013 – with the rarely performed opera “Un giorno di regno” is marked the 200 th anniversary of Verdi’s birth

5 October 2010 – on the Day of Stara Zagora, with the premiere of the opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet, the Opera building again opens its doors

2009-1991

1999 – with the premiere of the opera “Ernani” by Giuseppe Verdi is opened the new stage in the open – the Antique Forum “Augusta Trayana”

1997-2009 – the creative activity is transferred to the renovated Hall of the Theater

1993-1997 – the spectacles are performed on the stage of the Home of the Transport Workers

1991-1993 – the spectacle activity is transferred to the Hall of the Trade Union Home

1991 – a fire burns down the spectators’ hall and a large part of the wardrobe of the Opera

1991-1971

The premiere of the opera “Nabucco” in 1982

1971-1991 – premieres of “Aida” and “Nabucco” by Giuseppe Verdi, “Der fliegende Hollander" by Richard Wagner, “Boris Godunov” by Modest Mussorgsky, contemporary authors – “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Benjamin Britten, “Colas Breugnon” By Dmitri Kabalevsky, the ballet “Abraxas by Werner Egk and Bulgarian titles “Masters” by Parashkev Hadzhiev, “Yana’s Nine Brothers” by
Lyubomir Pipkov, “Ivaylo” and “Thracian Idols” by Marin Goleminov, “Tzar Kaloyan” by Pancho Vladigrov e and others

1974 – The December Music Days Festival grows into Festival of the Opera and Ballet Arts, and every five years in its timeframe is held the National Review of the Bulgarian Opera Theaters

The opening of the new building of the Opera with the opera “Momchil” by Lyubomir Pipkov

1971 – a new modern building for the Opera is open. The improved technical capacity of the stage allows the presentation of the whole richness of the opera-ballet repertoire, including guest-performances by theaters from Bulgaria and abroad

Gramophone plate on the occasion of the 60 th anniversary of the foundation of the Opera Theater in Stara Zagora /1985/

1971 – 1946

1967 – the December Music Days Festival is founded

The ballet “Kardzhalii” by Ivan Dimov /1959/

1949 – a ballet troupe is created with its own repertoire

1946 – 1970 – in the new conditions the repertoire is enriched with new titles of the world classics: “The Bartered Bride by B. Smetana, “Mermaid” by Al. Dargomyzhsky, “Carmen” by G. Bizet, “La boheme” By G. Puccini, “Prince Igor” by Al. Borodin, “Der Freischutz” by Weber, “Un ballo in Maschera”, “Don Carlos” and “Simon Boccanegra” by G. Verdi.

1946 – the Theater is established as a state cultural institute – People’s Opera – Stara Zagora directly managed and financed by the Ministry of Information and the Arts

1945-1925

1942 – The Municipality gives for rehearsals of the Opera the former building of the Stara Zagora Radio opposite the City Garden /today a Supermarket/

1934 – the troupe is renamed as the Stara Zagora Municipal Opera. The premiere of the opera “Pearl Fishers” by G. Bizet

1931 – the Theater is renamed as South Bulgarian Regional Opera

1928 – the Theater grows into the Regional Opera – Stara Zagora and a region for performances in Burgas, Tarnovo and Plovdiv. The premiere of “La traviata” by Giuseppe Verdi

1925 – with the premiere of the opera “Gergana” by Maestro Georgi Atanasov is founded the first permanently active out of the capital opera troupe in Bulgaria

1924-1860

1898-1912 – a military brass wind orchestra, the school choirs, orchestras and music-theater ensembles are founded

1897 – the Music Society “Kaval” is founded

1860 – a city orchestra is founded