Opera Open - Jazz Symphony: Lizz Wright (16 July 2019)

From 2017 the Opera Open festival mounted a strong array of shows at the Ancient Theatre, presenting premieres, co-productions and hybrid-genre projects. They will all feature active international partnerships and will attract foreign and Bulgarian artists working across Europe and around the world.

Opera Open welcomed, on the stage of the Ancient Theatre in Plovdiv, leading soloists of the largest opera and ballet companies. Over the past years names such as Paata Burchuladze, Hui He, Ana Lucrecia Garcia, Elisabet Strid, Donata D’Annunzio Lombardi, Alberto Gazale, Christian Benedict, Lala Leigh, performers from the Vienna Volksoper and the Budapest Opera, prima ballet dancers from the Bolshoi Theatre and many others. During the special 2019 year the Opera Open programme will feature names of world famous performers.

Opera Open 2019 - Jazz Symphony: Lizz Wright (16 July 2019)

Concert of high-profile jazz singer Lizz Wright (USA) with the Orchestra of Opera Plovdiv. Her albums reached № 1 in Billboard magazine's chart for contemporary jazz in 2005 and 2006. Her work includes a blend of jazz and pop as well as gospel standards. The project is implemented in partnership with the Plovdiv Jazz Fest.

Find details about the State Opera Plovdiv, the Opera Open project and the programme of the 2019 edition - at operaplovdiv.bg Online tickets - HERE.