Damascus, in Greece, Italy, France, the USSR, Germany etc. For personal and ethical reasons, he resigned and remained only part-time professor of conducting at the Musical Academy for four years. He had guest tours in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, USSR, the DDR etc. In Plovdiv he staged The Magic Flute in 1971. Maestro Petkov returned to Plovdiv for a second time as Chief Conductor, and remained there until his last days in 1987. In addition to the orchestra's very busy regular schedule, they had tours in the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Italy, USSR and elsewhere, always with great enthusiasm and superlative critic reviews (Venezuela, Romania, Greece, Cuba etc.). In France they were invited in 1981 in the Théâtre du Châtelet together with the Chicago, Lyon, Berlin and Boston philharmonic orchestras. In 1986 he made another opera in Plovdiv - Verdi's Otello - whose premiere won the admiration of music critics. He has also conducted numerous educational concerts before schoolchildren, university students, soldiers and ordinary people, as well as many concerts with young musicians-beginners. He also conducted many works by Bulgarian and foreign composers for the first time, devoting special attention to the Bulgarian authors: "There is always someone to take care about foreign authors. We should take care about ours." Sources For Dobrin Petkov, Sofia, 1994, "Five plus" Homepage: http://www.dobrinpetkov.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dobrin-Petkov-Dobrin-Petkov/163938053618748 1923 births 1987 deaths Bulgarian conductors (music) 20th-century conductors (music) Bulgarian expatriates in Germany Bulgarian expatriates in the United Kingdom