site.bta41st Apollonia Fest Kicks Off with Concert in Sozopol on Friday Night

The official opening of the 41st Apollonia Festival will take place with a concert by the National Music Academy's Big Band featuring soloists Hilda Kazasyan and Vassil Petrov at the Apollonia Amphitheatre here on Friday night. Literary premieres, plays, concerts and cinema are all part of the programme for the festival.

Krasimir Dimovski will present his novel Theseus in His Labyrinth. The Diary of a P, which won the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Bulgarian Novel of the Year national literary award in May. At the same time, the Otets Paisiy Community Centre will host an exhibition of stage designs by the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts.

The music programme kicks off with a concert at the Archaeological Museum featuring guitarist Tsvetan Nedyalkov, bandoneon player Stoyan Karaivanov, and double bass player Margarita Kalcheva.

Visitors can see the film Vasko & The Violin directed by Lora Krumova and Maria Yotova at the Outdoor Cinema.

BTA is a media partner of the event.

The Apollonia Festival of Arts has been held since 1984. It is organized by the Apollonia Foundation, established in 1991. Each year, the stages of Apollonia in Sozopol attract hundreds of artists and thousands of art lovers from Bulgaria and abroad. The festival aims to preserve cultural traditions, while also supporting new talents across different art forms. This year’s programme includes more than 70 events in music, theater, literature, cinema, and visual arts.

On September 1, as part of the Apollonia Festival, there will be a presentation of the new issue of LIK, the Bulgarian News Agency's magazine for literature, art, and culture. The August issue of the magazine is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the beginning of organized tourism in Bulgaria.