Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms and Symphony No. 3 “Scottish” by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy will be played at the Summer Stage Borissova Gradina in Sofia on 29 July at 8pm. The Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra will perform on the open air stage in the company of violinist Mario Hossen and under the baton of Maestro Nayden Todorov. The event is part of Sofia Philharmonic's summer programme Share the Music.

Bulgarian soprano Alexandrina Mihailova has outdone in three rounds 430 other candidates to earn a spot among the winners of La Scala's competition for rising opera singers, held in Milan. A jury chaired by the director of the opera theatre, Dominique Meyer, selected 10 young talents to study at La Scala Academy over the next two years. Raina Kabaivanska, whose long and illustrious international career began with La Scala, won that very competition in 1960.

On 10 July, Opera at the Stadium will celebrate its fifth birthday with the staging of Aida. With this performance, the Stara Zagora Opera joins the world celebrations of the 150th anniversary since the premiere of this magnificent work by Giuseppe Verdi. The opera will be presented with the special participation of Dario di Vietri in one of his star roles - Radames, which has brought him much success.

Italian Maestra Gianna Fratta will conduct the Sofia Philharmonic during a concert on the Summer Stage in Sofia at 8pm on 8 July. The first concert of the national orchestra's summer programme will feature Italian film music by brilliant composers such as Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary from the birth of legendary Italian film director Federico Fellini, the same list of works was performed to great success in November 2020, when Bulgaria Hall turned out to be too small for all the people who wanted to enjoy the soundtracks to classic films such as La Dolce Vita, Amarcord, The Cheetah, 8 1/2, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, etc.

The Sofia Philharmonic is reaching out to the kids from the Children's Symphony Orchestra - Sliven and inviting fans to experience the emotions of a very special concert. At 6pm on 4 July, the children's orchestra will be sharing the stage of Bulgaria's most prestigious hall with musicians from the national orchestra.

The outstanding pianist Oleg Maisenberg is set to play for the Bulgarian audience on 1 July at Bulgaria Hall in Sofia. Together with the Sofia Philharmonic, he will perform Rachmaninoff's brilliant Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The programme of the concert, to be conducted by Oleg Ptashnikov, will also include Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1.

Violinist Albena Danailova, the first female concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, is set to visit Sofia as a soloist of the Classic FM orchestra. The event will take place at Bulgaria Hall on 29 June as part of the 2021 European Music Festival.

On 24 June at 7pm in Bulgaria Hall, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra will pay tribute to the great Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.

A Grammy-winner and a favourite of legendary conductor Zubin Mehta, the world-renowned violinist Midori is set to give a concert with the Sofia Philharmonic on 13 June. Under the baton of Maestro Nayden Todorov, she will perform Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1.

Virtuoso violinist Vesko Eschkenazy has prepared a rich programme of his favourite musical pieces for his long-awaited meeting with the audience in an on-stage celebration of his 50th birthday. The jubilee project will tell the story of The Violinist's Muses in an inspiring symbiosis of music, poetry and theatre. Actress Koyna Ruseva will play the role of a narrator of Vesko's life in verse.