On Friday, November 17, 2017, the drama of the Slovenian National Theater Maribor will premiere Yasmine Reza's comedy God of Massacre, directed by Ajda Valcl, on the Small Stage. Starring Ana Urbanc, Vladimir Vlaškalić, Ksenija Mišič and Kristijan Ostanek.
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On Saturday, November 18, at 5:00 p.m., the children's play Peter Klepec or How do you become a real hero will premiere on the big stage of Drama. Maja Sever and Eva Kraševec wrote the dramatization based on the motifs of the legend of Peter Klepec. The well-known fairy tale about the shepherd boy who acquires miraculous strength, as well as the story by France Bevk, were the starting point for the current staging.
Vid Valič would like to get married. Ever since. But what do you do if you want to get married, but you can't find a match? What do you do if you find a bride and she doesn't want to marry you? What do you do if you propose to 20 women in two years and each of them says, "No?!" And what do you do if someone says: "Yes?"
Although fans have been clamoring for years for Friends - Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani and David Schwimmer as Ross Geller - returned to the small screen, but there is no indication that their wish will be granted. Or is it? The popular comedy series is moving to theater stages. As a musical parody called Friends! The Musical will come to life already this fall.
On April 13, 2017, the premiere of the ballet Symphony of Sad Songs will take place on the stage of SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana. The author of the conceptual ballet is Tomaž Pandur, and the musical basis is Symphony no. 3 by Henryk Mikołaj Góreckig. Tickets are already on sale.
The Lipica stud farm invites you to a performance called Fairy Tale in White on Prešeren's Day, where the most beautiful white Lipizzaners from our stud farm and the Croatian state stud farm Djakovo will perform together. On February 8, 2017, entry and viewing of the Lipica stud farm will be free, and tickets to the show will be available at a reasonable price.
On March 3, 2017, the ballet Carmen – Faun – Bolero will premiere in Maribor, representing one of the most interesting dance works of the 20th century. You can see this avant-garde choreography in a transformed form at the Maribor National Theatre. Tickets are already available for purchase.
The legendary musical Cats by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been enthralling world stages for thirty years. At the end of March, an exceptional line-up from London's West End is coming to Arena Zagreb under the baton of the original team.
On November 26, 2016, the ballet performance Eugene Onegin will be premiered at SNG Maribor. The dance piece, which draws its story from Pushkin's iconic novel Eugene Onegin, was choreographed by renowned ballet choreographer Valentina Turcu. The new ballet performance finds its musical basis in the works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. Marko Japlje's scenography and Alan Hranitel's costume design will infuse sensibility, sensuality and brilliance into the neoclassical ballet aesthetic and romantic musical background. Tickets are already available.
Dej, ne govor is an author's project by Branko Završan, which will premiere on November 5, 2016 at the Slovenian Folk Theater in Celje. The play Say, don't speak is a silent theater performance in which all the actors cover their faces with masks. The viewer is thus offered the opportunity to pay attention to body language, which in everyday life we follow almost exclusively subconsciously. Even though the speech is removed, Dej, no speech is an eloquent project that will offer a mirror to many participants - as befits true art. The performance will be accompanied by music by Boštjan Lebno.
After last year's successful tour, the British stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr is returning to Cankarjev dom on September 18, 2016 as part of the Funny Business tour. Since all 1,500 seats for his performance were already sold out, and the demand for tickets did not dry up, the organizer announced an additional performance.
Thornfest 2016 will be! It was hanging in the air for a long time, but the international summer festival, which traditionally brightens the August events in Ljubljana, will take place again this year. Below we publish the program and the list of performers. Trnfest will take place from 4 to 24 August 2016.