Aria of Khan Krum (Khan Krum Yuvigi)

Khan Krum Yuvigi is an opera in two acts to a libretto by Bancho Banov, first staged at the Sofia Opera on 17 January 1981, in the season built around the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the Bulgarian state. Its subject is the ruler who gave the country its first written laws at the beginning of the ninth century. Mihail Angelov conducted the premiere. The production was taken to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and the work later reached Stara Zagora and Veliko Tarnovo, where it was performed on the Tsarevets hill in 1989 and filmed by Bulgarian National Television.