FULL DUEL (Valchev) Lom 2003
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Duel or Dvuboĭ
- Composer: Valchev Dimitar
- Libretto: Ivan Vazov, Stefan Tsanev Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Operetta Theater at the National Community Center "Postoyanstvo 1856", Lom, Russia
- Recorded: 2003
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: Hernani Cibranski
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: BROD Studios
- Date Published: 2003
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 2 Audio:2
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Dimitar Valchev graduated from the State Academy of Music majoring in Piano under Professor Andrey Stoyanov (1952) and Composition under Professor Parashkev Hadjiev (1956). He was conductor at the travelling troupe Popular Theatre for the Village (1954-60). From 1961 to 1991 he conducted the orchestra of the Satire Theatre in Sofia. In 1992 he joined the staff of the State Music Theatre as music dramaturgy expert.
He wrote musical plays for adults and children, staged in Sofia (State Music Theatre and Youth Theatre) as well as outside the capital and broadcast on the radio and television; Glory to the Day Cantata; Fantasy for piano and orchestra; Three concert pieces for chamber orchestra; Wind Quintet; Piano Sonata; choral songs; dance pieces for jazz orchestra; music to over 100 TV and theatre performances; film scores, etc. His pop songs were included in the repertoire of leading Bulgarian actors and pop singers such as Yordanka Hristova, M. Dimitrova, Pasha Hristova or P. Chernev and were prizewinners at The Golden Orpheus Festival, the Golden Blackbird Festival, etc.