#vesela delcheva

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What If Scenario. The Pandemic never happened, but the renovations at Her Majesty’s eventually did. During that time, they put together a concert-like production of Phantom like they did with Les Mis in 2019. Who would you have cast in each part? Feel free to include Ensemble & Understudies

I think I answered something very similar before where I said that I'd love to have had an international celebration, with recent, fan-favorite, or long-running members from productions all over the world given an opportunity to perform and do, like, one song each, along with the then-current cast at the time. So I guess it might be something like:

Phantom: Josh Piterman (London), Ben Crawford (Broadway), Derrick Davis (national tour), Osamu Takai (Japan), Alexander Goebel (Vienna), Colm Wilkinson (Toronto), Peter Karrie (Canadian tour), Peter Joback (Stockholm), Ian Jon Bourg (Germany), Anthony Warlow (Australia), Henk Poort (Scheveningen), Juan Navarro (Mexico City), Hans Peter Janssens (Antwerp), Tomas Ambt Kofod (Copenhagen), Hong Kwang Ho (Seoul), Juan Carlos Barona (Madrid), Sandor Sasvari (Budapest), Saulo Vasconcelos (Sao Paulo), Damian Aleksander (Poland), Carlos Vittori (Buenos Aires), Marian Vojtko (Prague), Stephen Brandt Hansen (Estonia), Ivan Ozhogin (Moscow), Ilkka Hamalainen (Helsinki), Adrian Nour (Bucharest), Nikola Bulatovic (Belgrade), Vladimir Grudkov (Sofia), Jonathan Roxmouth (World Tour), Espen Grjotheim (Oslo), Ben Forster (Greece), Killian Donnelly (UK Tour)

Christine: Kelly Mathieson (London), Meghan Picerno (Broadway), Emma Grimsley (national tour), Sae Yamamoto (Japan), Luzia Nistler (Vienna), Rebecca Caine (Toronto), Teresa DeZarn (Canadian tour), Emmi Christensson (Stockholm), Valerie Link (Germany), Ana Marina (Australia), Joke de Kruijf (Scheveningen), Irasema Terrazas (Mexico City), Inneke van Klinken (Antwerp), Sibylle Glosted (Copenhagen), Kim So Hyun (Seoul), Julia Moller (Madrid), Barbara Fonyo (Budapest), Lina Mendes (Sao Paulo), Edyta Krzemien (Poland), Claudia Cota (Buenos Aires), Monika Sommerova (Prague), Maria Listra (Estonia), Tamara Kotova (Moscow), Sofie Asplund (Helsinki), Irina Baiant (Bucharest), Mirjana Matic (Belgrade), Vesela Delcheva (Sofia), Claire Lyon (World Tour), Astrid Giske (Oslo), Amy Manford (Greece), Holly-Anne Hull (UK Tour)

Raoul: Danny Whitehead (London), John Riddle (Broadway), Michael Maliakel (national tour), Kanji Ishimaru (Japan), Thorsten Tinney (Vienna), Laird Mackintosh (Toronto), Kip Wilborne (Canadian tour), Anton Zetterholm (Stockholm), Nicky Wuchinger (Germany), Alexander Lewis (Australia), Peter de Smet (Scheveningen), someone who's not Jose Joel (Mexico City), Michael Shawn Lewis (Antwerp), Christian Lund (Copenhagen), Son Jun Ho (Seoul), Armando Pita (Madrid), Zoltan Miller (Budapest), Nando Prado (Sao Paulo), Marcin Mrozinski (Poland), Nicholas Martinelli (Buenos Aires), Tomas Vanek (Prague), Koit Toome (Estonia), Evgeny Zaycev (Moscow), John Martin Bengtsson (Helsinki), Florin Ristei (Bucharest), Slaven Doslo (Belgrade), Denko Prodanov (Sofia), Matt Leisy (World Tour), Carl Lindquist (Oslo), Nadim Naaman (Greece), Rhys Whitfield (UK Tour)

Is that way too many cast members? Probably! Are there even enough scenes for each of them to perform together? Unlikely! Did I give up doing supporting, ensemble, and understudies because it was too exhausting? Definitely! Do I even know who some of these people are or if they want to come back at all? Not really!

But you have to admit - it's a huge and very international cast!

[ballerinadellamusica]

Phantom Bulgaria full Christine wardrobe.

Pictures are from the Musicbulgaria.bg Facebook

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Her Voice - Vesela Delcheva - Baldur’s Gate 3! (Down By The River)

Just have a listen to this whole piece, her voice is so beautiful it’s painful but you want more and more, you want to drown in it. The transition in this is beautiful. Baldur’s Gate now has music as iconic as Skyrim, Dragon’s Age and so on, one’s you’ve remembered for years and now this games music will stick with me like they have. 

The moment you hear ‘Down by the River’ come in, it just melts me and it is now iconic in my mind. I can’t wait to see what this game will look like finished, what the cinematics and cutscenes are going to be like, more music, more character scenes, maybe more romance? We’ll see, but it will be beautiful, theirs no denying that.

I’m a sucker for magical, saccharine, fantasy type music that just carries me away through the stones to another world (if only). 

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Phantom Bulgaria will no longer be performing in November due to current restrictions.

The show will open once current restrictions are lifted.

Pictures from Държавен Музикален и Балетен Център - София Facebook

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The three Bulgarian Christines 🇧🇬

Row 1: Весела Делчева // Vesela Delcheva

Row 2: Теменужка Трифонова // Temenuzhka Trifonova 

Row 3: Християна Лоизу // Hristiana Loizu 

The Bulgarian production of Phantom of the Opera (Фантомът на операта) has run for 33 performances at the Musical Theater “Stefan Makedonski” in Sofia, from January-March and November 2019. All three actors shared the role of Christine Daaé, with Hristiana Loizu credited on the program as a guest performer.

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Baldurs Gate 3 - The Weeping Dawn - Vesela Delcheva & The Symphony of Sin

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“Phantom of the Opera” returns to the stage of the Musical Theatre (Sófia, Bulgaria) for a limited run this November. The dates were agreed upon after lengthy negotiations with the copyright-holding company. The dates are limited: 3, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. November 2020. (...)

From its premiere on January 25 this year and until April 14, the musical was visited by a record 24,000 viewers”  ( From here )

[glassprism]

Although I feel like you've seen every Phantom, Christine, and Raoul, can I just ask if there are actors and actresses you haven't seen a bootleg of but want to?

Oh, so many, there are lots of cast members who weren't recorded, or fully recorded, and who I would love to see or hear. A short list (and I do mean this is short, because I basically eliminated anybody who had a full bootleg of them, whether audio or video, solely for the sake of my sanity):

Phantoms: Andre Schwartz, Juan Pablo Skrt, Nicholas Nkuna, Kalle Sepp, Hugo Laporte, Nikolai Dogramadzhiev, Vladimir Grudkov, Momchil Stepanov, Joel Zerpe, Daniel Koek

Christines: Maria Kesselman, Raissa Katona, Tua Aberg, Johanne Brochmann, Lori Broderick, Gay Willis, June Crowley, Tamra Haydn, Amy Jo Arrington, Beverley Worboys, Annalene Beechey, Susanne Elmark, Agnete Munk Rasmussen, Lana English, Amy Hudson Holder, Mona Botha, Magdalene Minnaar, Mercedesz Csampai, Tereza Marshall, Mirjana Matić, Anne-Marine Suire, Micaela Sjöstedt, Hanna Ulvan, Mira Ormala, Charlotte Brænna, Vesela Delcheva, Raquel Paulin, Cassandra Lemoine, Sara Ollinen

Raouls: Brennan Holder, Tobias Ahlsell, Jonathan Böiers

And probably many, many more.

[ballerinadellamusica]

Phantom Bulgaria Point of no return & Final lair

Pictures from Vesela Delcheva Facebook

[elemelon-s]

The three Bulgarian Christines 🇧🇬

Row 1: Весела Делчева // Vesela Delcheva (x) (x)

Row 2: Теменужка Трифонова // Temenuzhka Trifonova (x)

Row 3: Християна Лоизу // Hristiana Loizu (x)

The Bulgarian production of Phantom of the Opera (Фантомът на операта) has run for 33 performances at the Musical Theater “Stefan Makedonski” in Sofia, from January-March and November 2019. All three actors shared the role of Christine Daaé, with Hristiana Loizu credited on the program as a guest performer.

[ballerinadellamusica]

Phantom Bulgaria: Graveyard scene

Pictures from Vesela Delcheva Facebook

[glassprism]

Are there any Christines that just had their natural hair styled rather than wearing a wig(idk if I should count hair extensions or not)?

In the replica productions? No. Even actresses where the wig was based on their hair, such as Sarah Brightman, used a wig in the actual show.

Within the non-replica productions, yes, though lack of footage, pictures, or knowledge means I’m pretty unsure on some of them. I know the restaged tours, Norwegian, and Greek productions used wigs, and I am pretty certain the Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Estonian, and Finnish/Gothenburg productions did too (with the Hungarian and Estonian productions adapting the color of the wig to match the actress’s real hair color and the Finnish and Gothenburg productions having slightly different shades between them).

The Romanian production, however, used the actress’s real hair:

I am unsure about the Christines from the Serbian, Bulgarian, and Kristianstad production, though I’m leaning towards wig for the Kristianstad production and real hair for the Serbian and Bulgarian productions (from the latter, Vesela Delcheva especially is sporting hair that looks very similar to hers in real life). But I could be wrong, and someone will fill me in in the comments!

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Christine’s Blue / ‘Wishing’ dress

(Names and locations in captions.)

Bonus - Vesela Delcheva, Bulgaria:

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Christine’s Wedding Dress

(Names and locations in captions. Note: only productions with actual wedding dresses were included; productions that had Christine stay in her Aminta dress were excluded.)

Bonus - Vesela Delcheva, Bulgaria:

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Christine’s Star Princess / ‘Masquerade’ dress

(Names and locations in captions.)

Bonus - Vesela Delcheva, Bulgaria:

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Christine’s Elissa / ‘Think of Me’ Dress

(Names and locations in the captions.)

Bonus - Vesela Delcheva, Bulgaria: