Editing Plovdiv (section)

===Theatre and music===
[[File:Small Plovdiv street.JPG|thumb|left|200px|A preserved medieval street in the Old town]]
[[File:Odeon021.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A performance in the [[Odeon of Philippopolis|Roman Odeon]]]]
The Plovdiv Drama Theatre<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dt-plovdiv.org/main.php?lang_id=2 |title=Drama Theatre Plovdiv |publisher=Dt-plovdiv.org |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726004921/http://www.dt-plovdiv.org/main.php?lang_id=2 |archive-date=26 July 2011  }}</ref> is a successor of the first professional theatre group in Bulgaria founded in 1881. The Plovdiv Puppet Theatre, founded in 1948, remains one of the leading institutions in this genre. The Plovdiv Opera was established in 1953.

Another pillar of Plovdiv's culture is the Philharmonic, founded in 1945.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://petracho.ofd-plovdiv.org/philharmony.html |title=Philharmonic of Plovdiv |publisher=Petracho.ofd-plovdiv.org |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183245/http://petracho.ofd-plovdiv.org/philharmony.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Soloists such as [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], [[Sviatoslav Richter]], [[Mstislav Rostropovich]], Yuri Boukov, and Mincho Minchev have worked with the Plovdiv Philharmonic. The orchestra has toured in almost all of the European countries.

The Trakiya Folklore Ensemble, founded in 1974, has performed thousands of concerts in Bulgaria and more than 42 countries.<ref>[http://www.ensembletrakia.hit.bg/ Trakiya Folklore Ensemble] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229231745/http://www.ensembletrakia.hit.bg/ |date=29 December 2014 }} (in [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]).</ref> The Trakiya Traditional Choir was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]]. The [[Detska Kitka Choir]] is one of the oldest and best-known youth choirs in Bulgaria and the winner of numerous awards from international choral competitions. [[Evmolpeya|The Evmolpeya choir]] is another girls' choir from Plovdiv, whose establishing patron, [[Ivan Chomakov]], became the then mayor in 2006. The choir was appointed a [[Goodwill Ambassador]] and a municipal choir.