/ world today news/ At the age of 84, on January 19, 2015, the great Bulgarian conductor Rositsa Batalova left us. The service will take place on January 23, 2015 – Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in the lobby of the National Music Theater “Stefan Makedonski”.
Rositsa Batalova was born on September 3, 1930 in Stara Zagora in the family of one of the founders and first soloists of the Stara Zagora Opera – Georgi and Nichka Batalova. He started playing the piano at the age of 5. In 1941, the family moved to Sofia. She studied at the Second Demic High School in Sofia, where her musical talent was noticed by her music teacher Veselina Andreeva-Ducheva, who offered her to conduct the high school choir in 1945.
At the same time as the classical high school, Rositsa Batalova studied as an extraordinary piano student in the secondary department of the then Music Academy under the prominent piano pedagogues Prof. Zheni Kovacheva and Prof. Mara Petkova.
At the State Academy of Music, she was admitted to the theoretical department, where she completed “Composition” under Prof. Marin Goleminov and Prof. Asen Dimitrov and “Conducting” under Prof. Vladi Simeonov.
After graduation, she joined the renowned children’s and youth philharmonic “Pioner” at the Palace of Pioneers in Sofia, led by Vladi Simeonov, as an assistant conductor.
On November 2, 1955, Rositsa Batalova, invited by the head of the Plovdiv Philharmonic – conductor Ruslan Raichev, raised the baton for her first solo concert. He conducts works by Mozart, Weber, Lyubimir Pipkov and Tchaikovsky. Invitations for new concerts with the Vidin, Burgas and Shumen philharmonics follow.
After leaving the “Pioneer” philharmonic, Rositsa Batalova appeared at the first announced competition for a conductor – the one at the State Music Theater “St. Macedonian” and out of 11 candidates – all other men, the committee chose her. The first major work he conducted was the operetta “White Acacia” by Dunaevski. Immediately afterwards, he plays “The Merry Widow” by Lehar.
In the “St. Makedonski” DMT, Maestro Batalova’s baton gives stage life to many of our and foreign musical-scenic works: – operettas, lysicles, ballets. “The Merry Widow”, “The Beautiful Elena”, “Orpheus in Hell”, “The Bat”, “The Princess of the Circus”, “Countess Maritza”, Count von Luxemburg, The Violet of Mont Martre”, “The Beautiful Galatea”, the musicals – ” Good night Bettina”, “Andalusia”, the ballet “Straussiana” and others.
A special merit of hers for the long-term maintenance of the high performance level of Kalman’s world-famous operetta “The Queen of the Chardasha” on the stage of the Musical Theater, on other Bulgarian theater stages and in the famous Vienna “Raymund Theater”. These performances are over two thousand in her creative biography.
In 1964, he won third place at the Rossini competition in Italy, after which he specialized with the world-famous conductor and teacher Franco Ferrara.
Creator and conductor of the Women’s Chamber Orchestra “Sofia”, which has been performing concerts for over 40 years, performing chamber works by world composers and especially many by Bulgarian artists.
For the fund of the Bulgarian National Radio, she has made recordings with the Symphony Orchestra of the Radio, with the Orchestra of DMT “St. Makedonski” and with the Ladies’ Chamber Orchestra “Sofia.
He is the author of three books. She toured as a conductor in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Spain, Austria, Czech Republic, Turkey, Israel, Greece, etc.
Rositsa Batalova is an honorary citizen of the city of Stara Zagora. She is the recipient of the Golden Lira of the Union of Bulgarian Music and Dance Artists. In 1969, she was awarded the title “Honored Artist”, and in 1980 – with the title “People’s Artist”.
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