State Opera-Ruse is a cultural institute consisting of soloists, a choir, a ballet, and an orchestra. Under the baton of some of the world-famous conductors - Kurt Mazur, Carlo Zecchi, Dmitry Kitaenko, Kurt Sanderling, Evgeny Svetlanov, Valery Gergiev, etc., we have developed and continue to grow as one of the best, leading ensembles in Bulgaria with over 100 years of history. Dmitri Shostakovich and other eminent musicians such as Franco Ferrara, Carlo-Maria Giulini, Katia Ricciarelli, Boris Belkin, Yuri Bashmet, and many others had worked with the orchestra. The choir of the State Opera-Ruse dates back to 1949. During its long existence, the choir of the Ruse Opera has accumulated a great professional experience and maintains diverse repertoire in different genres including more than 40 titles by foreign and Bulgarian composers, among which we distinguish the names of Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Wagner, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Gershwin, Shostakovich, Parashkev Khadzhiev, Alexander Raichev, Simeon Pironkov, Maestro Georgi Atanasov. The choir owes its high professional level to the long-standing work of the choir conductors Atanas Dimitrov, Tomina Sidova, Hristo Stoev and Steliyana Dimitrova-Hernani. Under the expert leadership of these professionals, the Opera Choir has won the applause and brought audiences to their feet almost all over Europe - Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Romania and Russia.
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