Burgas Opera brings the musical "My Fair Lady" back to the stage on 13 October at 7pm. It is the third year in a row that the opera has staged the Broadway show.

The music is by Frederick Loewe, and the story follows George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion". It centres on flower girl Eliza Doolittle and phonetics professor Henry Higgins.

Soloist Ilina Mihaylova and guest performer Marcho Apostolov take the lead roles. Petar Tiholov plays Colonel Pickering, Diman Panchev plays Alfred Doolittle, Yani Nikolov plays Freddy Hill, and Irina Dobrovolskaya plays Mrs Pearce.

The cast also includes Stefka Hristozova, Shmilena Sultanova, Georgi Bozveliev, Miroslav Dimitrov, Emil Peychev and others, along with the opera's chorus, ballet and orchestra.

Prof. Dr Alexander Tekeliev directs the production. Ivan Kozhuharov conducts the orchestra, and Prof. Dr Anna Pampulova is the choreographer. Ivan Tokadzhiev designed the sets, and Yana Dvoretska made the more than 200 costumes.

Alexander Chepanov is the chorus master, Lina Peeva is assistant director, and Vanya Zlateva is the concertmaster.

On 9 October we reported that Burgas Opera is staging the children's musical "Patilantsi" on 10 October at 11am at the start of the new season. The performers included Petar Tiholov, Irina Dobrovolskaya, Stefka Hristozova and Miroslav Dimitrov.

In the coming months, the musical will travel to Sliven, Shumen and Gabrovo.