26.
04.
Jun
Concert by the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:00 h
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor (Resurrection)
Conductor: Dmitrij Kitajenko
Soloists: Martina Gojčeta Silić – mezzo-soprano, Sabina Cvilak – soprano
Chorus: The Ivan Goran Kovačić Academic Choir
The Zagreb Philharmonic, Croatia's best-known orchestra, has been performing successfully for 140 years since 1871. Last year, the world celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Viennese composer Gustav Mahler. This year, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, the Zagreb Philharmonic will play his masterpiece, Symphony No. 2 in C minor (Resurrection) in this concert in Opatija.
Dmitri Kitayenko was born in Leningrad, Russia and is one of the greatest conductors of our time, highly appreciated across both Eastern and Western Europe. He regularly conducts some of the most prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra amongst others.
The Ivan Goran Kovačić Academic Choir was founded in 1948. Over the years, the choir has been directed by many renowned Croatian musicians such as Mladen Jagušt, Duško Prašelj, Lovro Županović, Adalbert Marković, Dinko Fio, Vladimir Kranjčević, Saša Britvić and Luka Vukšić. The choir has given concerts under the batons of Lovro pl. Matačić, Vjekoslav Šutej, Zubin Mehta and other famous conductors. It has given many guest performances in Croatia and abroad and taken part in significant festivals worldwide. The high interpretative standards achieved by the Ivan Goran Kovačić Academic Choir have been confirmed by numerous acknowledgements and awards.
Martina Gojčeta Silić, a highly esteemed concert and opera soloist, mezzo-soprano, frequently performs with major Croatian orchestras and is the winner of many awards and prizes. She is best known for her inspirational interpretations of Mahler's songs.
Sabina Cvilak, one of Slovenia's most famous sopranos, performs with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. With the Croatian mezzo-soprano Martina Gojčeta Silić, she performed at the concert dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great composer and conductor Gustav Mahler in Ljubljana.
08.
Jun
"Novi dan" - children's musical ("A New Day")
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:30 h
Performed in Croatian
RI DANCE dance group
Text: Norma Migliaccio Čučak
Writers and directors: Natalija Banov, Dolores Bugarin and Norma Migliaccio Čučak
Songs: Natalija Banov
Lyricists: Ivanka Glogović Klarić, Josip Tomin, N. Migliaccio Čučak and N. Banov
Arrangements: Aleksandar Valenčić, Robert Grubišić and Ivo Popeskić
Choreography: Dolores Bugarin
Set design: Theodor de Canziani
Costumes: Jadranka Šegota
Cast: children of elementary and secondary school age from Rijeka and surroundings, and children from the RI DANCE dance group.
A musical evoking images of childhood and children's games in a small coastal village in the past and today. It emphasises the friendship and love among people whose lives are connected to and determined by the sea, and also their love of homeland. The way the children interact with nature changes the world of adults with faith in a better tomorrow – a New Day.
This unique musical for children and young people is performed by the ensemble of twenty-four singers-actors-dancers of elementary and secondary school age from Rijeka and surroundings that were selected by audition, and the same number of dancers from the Ri Dance dance goup.
This musical is supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, the Town of Rijeka, and the County of Primorje-Gorski kotar.
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes
22.
Jun
Concert: Antonella Ruggiero
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 20:30 h
Consulate General of Italy in Rijeka brings the concert of Antonella Ruggiero to the Open Air Theatre in Opatija. the
24.
Jun
G. Verdi: "Nabucco" - opera
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:30 h
Ivan pl. Zajc Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka
Conductor: Nada Matošević
Director: Ozren Prohić
Set designer: Dalibor Laginja
Costumes: Silvio Vujičić
Lighting designer: Deni Šesnić
Video projections: Ivan FaktorChoreographer: Jasna Frankić Brkljačić
Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Ballet Ensemble of the Ivan pl. Zajc Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka
Soloists: Yuriy Nechaev, Voljen Grbac, Ivica Čikeš, Olga Kaminska, Kristina Kolar, Siniša Štork, Marko Fortunato, Vedrana Šimić
Rijeka's Ivan pl. Zajc Theatre's famous performance and the favourite play of Rijeka's audiences, Verdi's opera Nabucco, premiered in 2003 under the baton of maestra Nada Matošević, directed by Ozren Prohić, will now be staged in Opatija's Open Air Theatre.
One of Verdi's most famous dramas about the Babylonian king who, after long deliberation, decides to be merciful to the Jewish people, will be interpreted by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Rijeka Opera, members of the Ballet Ensemble, and excellent opera singers under the baton of the conductor Nada Matošević.
In the title role is the world-famous baritone Yuriy Nechaev, who has performed most of his operatic roles in the Bolshoi Theatre. During a varied career, he has also performed at the Paris Opera, La Scala Milan, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
In case of bad weather conditions, the performance will be postponed for the following evening.
29.
Jun
"Footloose" - musical
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:30 h
Performed in Croatian followed by subtitles in English
B Glad Production and the KiP Association in collaboration with
JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD. on behalf of R&H Theatricals of New York
Director and choreographer: Igor Barberić
Musical director: Michael Laangs
Translation of songs: Ivanka Aničić
Set designer: Marta Crnobrnja
Costumes: Petra Dančević
Lighting designer: Miljenko Bengez
Sound designer: Daniel Lindforss
Produced by: Tadija Kolovrat and Branko Glad
Cast: Nikola Milat, Mateja Majerle, Dario Bercich, Mirjana Sinožić, Nina Kraljić, Dino Antonić, Lela Kaplowitz, Mario Valentić
This musical based on the blockbuster movie from the 1980s that launched the careers of Kevin Bacon, Sarah Jessica Parker and John Lithgow, and which soon became the sensation of New York's Broadway and London's West End, is now being performed in Zagreb too!
Footloose the musical is now set to wake up our corner of the planet, under just one condition – that the music mustn't stop!
After his mother loses her job, Ren McCormack has to move with her from Chicago to Beaumont, a sleepy little town 'ruled' by the Reverend Shaw Moore. Dancing is forbidden in the town, so the students cannot organise their prom. But Ren will not accept this state of affairs and decides to take matters into his own hands…
Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes (interval 15 minutes)
In case of bad weather conditions, the event will be postponed to June 30th at 9.30 PM.
08.
Jul
"The Full Monty" - musical
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:30 h
Performed in Croatian followed by subtitles in English
Komedija Theatre, Zagreb
Libretto: Terence McNally
Music: David Yazbek
Translation: Ivanka Aničić
Director: Igor Mešin
Conductor: Dinko Appelt
Set design: Ivo Knezović
Choreographer: Igor Barberić
Costumes: Mirjana Zagorec
Lighting designer: Deni Šesnić
Cast: Ervin Baučić, Ronald Žlabur, Damir Lončar, Dražen Bratulić, Dražen Čuček, Renata Sabljak, Dubravka Ostojić, Mila Elegović, Nikita
Orchestra of the Komedija Theatre
Story about six unemployed steel workers from Sheffield in England, which enjoyed worldwide success on film based on the screenplay by Simon Beaufoy. The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, and Broadway producers became interested in the story. The libretto was written by Terence McNally, one of America's leading playwrights, and the score was composed by the young author David Yazbek.
Drama, laughter and, above all, a heart-warming message
Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes (interval 15 minutes)
In case of bad weather conditions, the event will be postponed to July 9th at 9.30 PM.
14.
Jul
The Marathon Family (Maratonci trče počasni krug) – musical
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:30 h
Performed in Serbian followed by subtitles in English
Pozorište na Terazijama Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia
Written by: Dušan Kovačević
Adapted and directed by: Kokan Mladenović
Songs: Maja Pelević
Composers: Irena Popović, Zoran Hristić and Marko Grubić
Conductor: Vojkan Borisavljević
Choreographer: Mojca Horvat
Costumes: Lana Cvijanović
Set design: Marija Kalabić
Cast: Vladan Savić, Janoš Tot, Duško Radović, Desimir Stanojević, Ivan Bosiljčić, Sonja Kolacarić, Marko Živić, Ivan Jevtović et al.
Pozorište na Terazijama Theatre ensembles: ballet, chorus and orchestra
"While writing the story of a young man from a family of Methuselahs-undertakers that make coffins for living but who yearns to leave that gloomy business (death) and find some better, nicer and more attractive place in the world, little could I have known then – in the early 1970s – that this story of mine would be adapted from theatre into film, and then into a musical in 2008, a time that seemed as distant back in the 1970s as would a flight to Venus be today.
I hope, and I believe too, that the musical on the stage of the Pozorište na Terazijama Theatre will be just as successful as the original play in the Atelje Theatre was in its time, or as the film that is today viewed by generations that were not even born when I was writing this blackly humorous (self-)confession" – Dušan Kovačević, Belgrade, 5th May 2008.
Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes (interval 15 minutes)
In case of bad weather conditions, the event will be postponed to July 15th at 9.30 PM.
17.
Jul
Concert: Group 4'33"
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:00 h
Concert for 15th Anniversary of the Group
GUESTS: Lovran Wind Orchestra and Band "Freelance"
experience the evening of celebrating the music performed by the 4'33" choir for its 15th Anniversary.
The Group has been founded in October 1996 as an initiative of City of Opatija. the basic repertoire consists of domestic an foreign popular music songs and classic pieces aswell. The choir gained popularity after performing on numerous stages through Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegowina.
ENTRANCE FREE
22.
Jul
West Side Story - musical
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:30 h
Performed in English
Brno City Theatre, Czech Republic. Ensembles: ballet, chorus, orchestra
Authors: A. Laurents, L. Bernstein, S. Sondheim
Director: Stanislav Moša
Translation: Jana Werichová, Petr Kopta, Jiří Josek
Choreographer: Vladimir Kloubek
Conductor: Milan Vidlak
Stage designer: Miroslav Melena
Costumes: Andrea Kučerova
Dramaturg: Gustav Skala
Cast: Petr Gazdik, Robert Jicha, Roma Vojtek, Alena Antalova, Jitka Čvančarova, Marketa Sedlačkova
A production of the famous American musical "West Side Story" on the stage of the Brno City Theatre was declared the best Czech performance in Europe by many Czech and foreign reviewers. This musical, inspired by Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet", premiered on Broadway in 1957. It has been continuously performed ever since on stages throughout the world. Despite its age, the main theme of this musical is still very relevant at the beginning of the 21st century. The struggle for dominance between two street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, love, aggression, racism, violence – these themes are really quite timeless, just like many of the musical's hit songs.
Duration: 2 hours and 20 minutes (interval 20 minutes)
In case of bad weather conditions, the event will be postponed to July 23rd at 9.30 PM.
31.
Jul
Russian Cossacks
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:30 h
State Dance Company, Moscow
The Russian Cossacks State Dance Company, one of the leading professional dance ensembles in Russia consisting of ca. fifty experienced world-class dancers, musicians and singers, relive the Cossacks' heroic feats on stage in a performance of extraordinary acrobatics and traditional dances that leave audiences truly breathless.
Love, commitment and sheer enthusiasm for reviving their unique cultural heritage are the driving force behind this dance group that will perform an exciting two-hour musical and dance programme portraying the great bravery of the Cossacks – Russia's legendary cavaliers and warriors – through sound and movement. This performance tells the story of battles, glory, love and betrayal through inspiring dance moves and thundering rhythms.
Duration: 2 hours
03.
Aug
"Magic of the Strings" concert Stefan Milenković and Vlatko Stefanovski
Category: music
Open Air Theatre Opatija , 21:00 h
The musical dream duo, Macedonian guitarist Vlatko Stefanovski and Serbian violinist Stefan Milenković, have joined forces and virtuosity for a musical spectacular entitled "Magic of the Strings". In 2010, the duo gave two consecutive concerts in Belgrade's Sava Centre. Their first appearance in Croatia will be at Opatija's Open Air Theatre on the 3rd of August 2011. Their repertoire includes some of the most famous classical pieces, but also rock and traditional music. It is hard to tell which is more powerful, the technique or the emotion with which they fill every melody, but these are the two qualities that make for exceptional musicians.