Name: Soloists' Gala: Voices That Only Summer Brings to Solothurn
Item: Opera Gala
Author: Gundi Klemm

The orchestra of the Bulgarian State Opera of Ruse, which for over a decade has been among the gladly heard performers at Solothurn's summer opera festival, played the first half under the direction of David Crescenzi and the second under Nayden Todorov. Both conductors led the impressively constituted ensemble sensitively and yet with verve. The singing voices were never smothered with volume, nor did the many-coloured effects of the instrumental tone-painting fall short.