site.btaUPDATED BTA Director General: LIK's New Issue Is about Bulgaria's Opera Voices, Big Opera Traditions
Presenting the new issue of the Bulgarian News Agency's LIK magazine here on Monday, BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said: "With the new issue of the LIK magazine, we have the opportunity to celebrate the opera voices of Bulgaria and the great opera tradition of our country." LIK's latest issue, titled "The Great Bass Boris Hristov", was presented simultaneously at the BTA press clubs in Bulgaria and abroad. Valchev presented the issue at BTA's MaxiM Hall in Sofia.
"BTA has contracts for systematic distribution of information from the opera theatres in Sofia, Varna - the theatre and music production centre, the state operas in Burgas, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora. In fact, each of them had a message for us to dedicate an issue to the anniversary of the respective opera," Valchev said. "Together with the editorial staff of LIK, we decided that an excellent opportunity to say much more, rather than talking only about individual theatres, was to present the biggest name: Boris Hristov," noted the BTA Director General.
He said that a large part of LIK's latest issue is from the BTA archives: where Boris Hristov is mentioned and talked about in them. "From our previous practice, it seems to me that this is the first case in which we take news from the archives where the name of the hero is not present," Valchev pointed out. He specified that it was a news piece from January 19, 1942. "We know that is the date on which Boris Hristov sang with the St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral's choir and got noticed by the King himself, who offered him a scholarship to study opera singing in Italy," said the BTA Director General.
"From this issue, we learn how a man can fight any political power with his talent and how he can fight death with his talent," Valchev added.
According to Assoc. Prof Georgi Lozanov, head of the LIK Directorate at the Bulgarian News Agency, Boris Hristov is a gold standard in his work. "Something like a cultural grandmaster. I just want to point out that he performed a cultural heroism during socialism: in 1976, he introduced religious chants as a very important part of that socialist culture, which was ideologically atheistic".
"Boris Hristov (...) is a symbol of the Bulgarian spirit, of exceptional talent and of tireless work in the name of art," reads an address by the caretaker Minister of Culture Nayden Todorov, read out by Deputy Minister of Culture Kalin Velyov.
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