/ world today news/ Another big award from the Metropolitan Municipality for the “Nightingale from Kubrat” made me write this short text. She, Lili Ivanova, really has great merits for the Bulgarian variety show, but her awards are too many, so there is probably only one monument missing during her lifetime! At the same time, a number of artists creating valuable, great art have been neglected by the Metropolitan Municipality and City Council for years.
I will focus on just one of the guilds. Here, for example, in the National Opera, led very successfully by Academician Kartalov, revived after a series of crises, a brilliant troupe of artists has been working for years, who would be an honor on any world stage. The wonderful, versatile sopranos Radostina Nikolaeva, Tsvetana Bandalovska and Gabriela Georgieva, the brilliant tenors Kostadin Andreev and Daniel Damyanov, the imposing basses Petar Buchkov and Dimitar Stanchev – each of them is an exceptional talent, with many great achievements in an extensive and extremely difficult repertoire – from Mozart and Rossini, through Verdi and Tchaikovsky, to Wagner, Richard Strauss, Lubomir Pipkov. And is there anything more difficult and beautiful than opera singing? / Here I will open a parenthesis in confirmation of this: The much-deserved bel canto baritone Nikola Vasilev, a long-time pillar of our national stage / also not honored by the Metropolitan Municipality!/, shared that when he sang in Geneva, Switzerland the difficult role of Count Di Luna in Verdi’s “Troubadour”, before the show, a commission from UNESCO with doctors surprisingly came. We checked the weight of each of the soloists for scientific purposes, as well as our artist before the start of the performance and after. It turned out that he ended up losing nearly 3 kg of his regular weight! Imagine what work, what tension this is! It’s not like you’re screaming and jumping and squirming in front of a microphone and powerful equipment, is it?! /Truly, universal singers, who presented Bulgarian culture to the world, our true ambassadors /as were their predecessors Gyaurov, Gyuzelev, Kabaivanska, Tomova-Sintova/, unlike our many ignorant cops abroad. But unfortunately, as fans of football and chalgata, most of our rulers do not enter the Opera House or the “Bulgaria” hall, like, for example, their Romanian colleagues, who are honored to go to a concert or a performance. Not to mention one of Austria’s leading chancellors, who shared in an interview that for him “the greatest honor is to attend the premiere of the Vienna State Opera”!
But, alas! In our country, great art is already in the background. The rulers should be told that: “It is not Gogol who should go down to the people, but the people should rise up to Gogol!” and that phenomena like “Painer Planet”, such as the numerous chalga radios and cable boxes allowed by the useless CEM, are something shameful for a country with an old, thousand-year-old culture, which it gave to other nations/ even if they don’t want to admit it! /. That it is the state that should take care of the promotion of culture and education in our country, which are in obvious decline, that the ministries of culture and education have more important tasks than the “delegated budgets” of the Rashidov misunderstanding, the unsuccessful rewriting of the textbooks on Bulgarian history and literature or the appropriation of funds for excavations and unnecessary and unsuccessful repairs. And the ridiculous reforms, the “delegated budgets”, the financial restrictions, the closing of theaters, operas, philharmonics / even the leading ones in Plovdiv and Ruse, created by the great Konstantin Iliev and Dobrin Petkov!/, at festivals and ensembles, at competitions, plein airs, national reviews of creative production – all this led our culture to the creative crisis and to a beggar’s stick. This is how the most ugly phenomenon broke out, without an analogue in Europe – the chalga, which already has so many dimensions and deep roots. The crisis hit the drama theaters very seriously / in which there is already a lot of kitsch!/ and the rest of the cultural institutes, and the media simply turned yellow and went into tune with this destructive policy, instead of educating and educating us, leading us. Thus began our simplification and lumpenization, especially of the young, who no longer know who is Verdi and who is Gogol. Aesthetic education and artistic education are already “just around the corner”. That’s where rudeness and crime come from. Our rulers need poorly educated voters. And this is already more than clear! That’s why the next big award of the Metropolitan Municipality will surely go to those who deserve for today’s Bulgarian culture, Krisko, Maria or Sofka…
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