Elina Garanca, the world-renowned opera singer with unique timbre and sensuous voice, is set to perform in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia on 23 September. The beautiful mezzosoprano has been invited by the Sofia Philharmonic to give a concert under the guidance of one of the most beloved contemporary conductors - Karel Mark Chichon.

The exclusive album series Bulgaria's Great Opera Voices presents, for the first time, restored analogue recordings by some of the country's most famous opera singers of the past, the project's music producers announced.

Brahms Alliance is the title of the first ever album of established pianist and teacher Ludmil Angelov and violist Rumen Cvetkov - two renowned Bulgarian classical musicians, whose life is divided between Bulgaria and Spain. They have a relatively new but certainly promising partnership. In an interview with Europost the musicians y explain how they met and decided to try playing together.

I am able to make people happy with my hobby; playing violin gives me such a good feeling, and when those feelings are sensed by an audience, I'm even happier, says maestro Andre Rieu in an interview to Europost.

Renowned Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva was honoured at Opera Magazine's prestigious International Opera Awards, recently presented in London. Yoncheva won the Readers' Award following a nearly two-month voting process.

When you choose an occupation and find a job, the most important thing is to have joy in what you do, pour your heart in it and get satisfaction from it, says concertmaster Kremena Mineva in an interview to Europost.

A unique concert will delight fans of classical music in Bulgaria this autumn. For the first time in Bulgaria, after its spectacular success in Germany, a project of this scale will be realised. 8 Grand Piano Concert is one of the closing events in the Plovdiv 2019 programme, which will unite the four cities that have applied for cultural capital of Europe - Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna and Veliko Tarnovo.

Accept, the German heavy metal legends, are coming back to Bulgaria. For two nights in a row, on 18-19 May, the band will present their unique show Symphonic Terror Tour at the Antique Theatre in Plovdiv.

On Holy Thursday, the Sofia Philharmonic traditionally presents one of the world's most moving pieces of music - Requiem by Verdi. On 25 April, the audience in Bulgaria Hall will have the pleasure of hearing the interpretation of Austrian conductor Friedrich Pfeiffer, who has earned European-wide acclaim with his versions of Verdi's works.

Bulgaria has a future, I firmly believe that, says Bulgarian opera singer Anna Tomowa-Sintow, who visited the country at the invitation of maestro Plamen Kartaloff, director of Sofia Opera and Ballet, to help the vocal and interpretation training of the cast of a production of Mozart's opera Don Juan. Many years ago, she promised maestro Herbert von Karajan, with whom she worked for nearly 20 years, she would pass on her experience to the young generation. Since then, she has been giving masterclasses in Bulgaria and other countries. The Sofia Opera opened a photo exhibition this spring dedicated to Tomowa-Sintow and entitled 55 Years on Stage.