Sofia Festival Orchestra
- Type
- Orchestra
- City
- Sofia
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Founded
- 1986
History
Set up in 1986 on Emil Tchakarov's initiative and attached to the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, the orchestra was assembled by audition, desk by desk, from players of the capital's opera and philharmonic. Its purpose was recording. Over four years it taped six Russian operas for CBS and Sony in the palace's own studio, among them Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina, Prince Igor, The Queen of Spades and Eugene Onegin; Prince Igor took a Grand Prix du Disque in 1989.
Recordings
Puccini — Arias from Turandot, Gianni Schicchi and La bohème | Giacomo Puccini — Soprano arias from Puccini operas, Vol. I · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4053 | HL 01006735
Giacomo Puccini — Sì, mi chiamano Mimì (La bohème)
Puccini — Arias from Turandot, Gianni Schicchi and La bohème | Giacomo Puccini — Soprano arias from Puccini operas, Vol. I · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4053 | HL 01006735
Giacomo Puccini — Quando me'n vo' soletta per la via (Musetta's Waltz) (La bohème)
Puccini — Arias from Turandot, Gianni Schicchi and La bohème | Giacomo Puccini — Soprano arias from Puccini operas, Vol. I · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4053 | HL 01006735
Giacomo Puccini — Donde lieta uscì (Mimì) (La bohème)
Puccini — Arias from Turandot, Gianni Schicchi and La bohème | Giacomo Puccini — Soprano arias from Puccini operas, Vol. I · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4053 | HL 01006735
Giacomo Puccini — O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
Puccini — Arias from Turandot, Gianni Schicchi and La bohème | Giacomo Puccini — Soprano arias from Puccini operas, Vol. I · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4053 | HL 01006735
Giacomo Puccini — Signore, ascolta! (Liù) (Turandot)
Puccini — Arias from Turandot, Gianni Schicchi and La bohème | Giacomo Puccini — Soprano arias from Puccini operas, Vol. I · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4053 | HL 01006735
Giacomo Puccini — Tu che di gel sei cinta (Liù) (Turandot)
Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4056
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Vedrò mentr'io sospiro (Il Conte) (Le nozze di Figaro)
Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4056
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Se vuol ballare, signor contino (Figaro) (Le nozze di Figaro)
Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4056
Gioachino Rossini — La calunnia è un venticello (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4056
Giuseppe Verdi — A te l'estremo addio... Il lacerato spirito (Fiesco) (Simon Boccanegra)
Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini · 1999 · Music Minus One · MMO4056
Giacomo Puccini — Vecchia zimarra (Colline) (La bohème)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Giacomo Puccini | Carl Maria von Weber — Operatic arias for soprano (Mozart, Puccini, Weber) · 1999 · Music Minus One · HL 01007203 | MMO CDG 4054
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Ergo interest, an quis... Quaere superna, K. 143
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Giacomo Puccini | Carl Maria von Weber — Operatic arias for soprano (Mozart, Puccini, Weber) · 1999 · Music Minus One · HL 01007203 | MMO CDG 4054
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Venite, inginocchiatevi (Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Giacomo Puccini | Carl Maria von Weber — Operatic arias for soprano (Mozart, Puccini, Weber) · 1999 · Music Minus One · HL 01007203 | MMO CDG 4054
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar (Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Giacomo Puccini | Carl Maria von Weber — Operatic arias for soprano (Mozart, Puccini, Weber) · 1999 · Music Minus One · HL 01007203 | MMO CDG 4054
Carl Maria von Weber — Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle (Der Freischütz, J. 277)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Giacomo Puccini | Carl Maria von Weber — Operatic arias for soprano (Mozart, Puccini, Weber) · 1999 · Music Minus One · HL 01007203 | MMO CDG 4054
Giacomo Puccini — Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore (Tosca)
André Hajdu — Dreams of Spain | Concerto for an Ending Century · 1998 · Hungaroton · HCD 31872
André Hajdu — Concerto for an Ending Century
André Hajdu — Dreams of Spain | Concerto for an Ending Century · 1998 · Hungaroton · HCD 31872