Sofia Opera & Ballet House
Grand opera house with a shell-shaped hall, marble foyers and acclaimed acoustics, opened in 1953.
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This guide to the Sofia Opera and Ballet House in Sofia opens on a warm July evening in twenty twenty-three, with the house's own orchestra musicians playing on the pavement for a crowd with champagne in hand. It follows Plamen Kartaloff, the director who first heard Wagner in Bayreuth as a student, and the company's long bet on a fifteen-hour opera cycle with an all-Bulgarian cast. Along the way you'll hear why the hall behind these doors is shaped like the inside of a shell. Best heard standing on the pavement facing the entrance.
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