Soloists of the State Opera - Burgas will present a chamber vocal concert dedicated to April 1st – the Day of Humor and Satire, the cultural institution in the seaside town announced.

The concert, which will take place in the opera foyer, is built around the idea of humor and self-irony as a necessary part of everyday life, especially in periods of tension and uncertainty, the organizers add.

The program will feature soloists Lyudmila Mihailova, Maria Tsvetkova-Madzharova, Shmilena Sultanova, Maria Yurkovskaya, Yani Nikolov, Andrey Yurkovsky, Valeri Turmanov, Yordan Hristozov, Diman Panchev and Kostadin Mechkov, with piano accompaniment by Iliana Todorova and Yana Marinova. Concertmaster Hristo Belchev on violin will also participate in the concert.

The audience will be able to hear excerpts from operatic and song classics with a markedly comic and playful character. The program includes arias and ensembles from “Wiener Blut” (Viennese Blood) by Johann Strauss II, “Countess Maritza” by Imre Kálmán, “Don Pasquale” and “L'elisir d'amore” (The Elixir of Love) by Gaetano Donizetti, “The Marriage of Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as works by Gioachino Rossini, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Charles Gounod. Performances of three old English songs with texts by William Shakespeare are also planned. Among the highlights are Rossini's “Duet of Cats”, “Barcarolle” from “L'elisir d'amore”, as well as the popular Neapolitan song Dicitencello vuje by Rodolfo Falvo.