On the stage of SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, the ballet Doctor Zhivago will come to life for the first time! The creators of the show are very well-known ballet artists, the brothers Jiři and Otto Bubeníček, who completed their careers at the John Neumeier Ballet in Hamburg, and today they can boast of being the authors of extremely successful shows on prominent dance stages.
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On April 26, 2016, the guest theater of HNK Zagreb will perform in the Great Hall of SNG Maribor, performing the ballet Anna Karenina to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Valentina Turcu took care of the stage adaptation of Tolstoy's great novel and the dramaturgy.
On April 17, 2016, the famous Shakespeare's Globe theater from London will host the grand opening of the Long Live Shakespeare! festival in Ljubljana's Drama, which will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of this great writer with numerous performances. The one-week festival will begin with a performance of Hamlet.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the greatest English playwright, William Shakespeare. On this occasion, SNG Drama Ljubljana prepared a festival called Živel Shakespeare!, whose cultural events will take place from April 17 to 23, 2016, on the Great Drama Stage, in the Little Drama and in the Drama Cafe.
Ljubljana, the green capital of Europe, dedicates March to responsible water management. The Ljubljana City Museum also participates in this with programs and the Water exhibition. Ljubljana is rich in natural sources of drinking water, and the responsible handling of water resources is the blue thread of the Water in the Museum exhibition and also of the March program at the information point Točka.Zate., which is in front of the City Hall. Learn about how the Romans built an advanced water-sewage system in Emona or how groundwater is pumped.
On March 11, 2016, an opera by the Italian early baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi will take place in the Great Hall of SNG Maribor, with which he set a new milestone in the history of musical theater. For the first time, the content is based on a real historical anecdote, and not on ancient Greek and Roman mythology.
The popular comic opera in four acts The Marriage of Figaro by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premiered in 1786. It was first performed in the Ljubljana Opera House in 1926, and in the current season it returns to the program, this time in the translation of the libretto by Sonja Berca, with the conductor Marko Hribernik and with a new cast of roles.
Are you a fan of video games, action and humor? Then Ebola simply cannot be missed! It is the first theatrical video game with detective Anžet Zevnik (Crazy Twenties, Vem!), Katarina Čas (3 roles), Vid Valič (5 roles), Vid Klemencec (4 roles) and Primož Pirnat, where you, as a viewer, have the fate of the actors in your hands .
The Ljubljana Improvisation Theater in collaboration with SiTi Theater BTC and Impro League presents a competition for the best improviser of the evening. Maestro™, which has been entertaining full theater halls across North America and Europe for many years, is a licensed format of the improvisation competition and is coming to Slovenia for the first time.
From February 23, 2016, an exhibition of the graphic work of the painter, sculptor, printmaker and theoretician Antonio Tàpies, who is considered one of the most famous Catalan artists after the Second World War, will be held in Ljubljana's Tivoli Castle. The exhibition Antoni Tàpies – Graphics 1959-1987 will be open until June 5, 2016.
The drama Liliom is considered one of the best works of the Hungarian writer Ferenc Molnár. It speaks of a desire, a longing that transcends modest life circumstances and leads an individual to fulfill his dreams. The main character is driven there by his uncompromising love for his girlfriend Juli.
Rhinos will take over Cankar's home. On March 20 and 21, 2016, the Romanian National Theater of Marin Sorescu from Craiova will host the Gallus Hall stage. The American Robert Wilson was invited to participate in directing Rhinoceros Eugèn Ionesco, a French writer of Romanian origin.