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.
Borštnik's meeting is the oldest and most prestigious theater festival on our soil. As every year, Maribor will turn into a theater center of national and international dimensions this October. The 52nd Borštnik's Meeting Festival will take place between October 20 and 29, 2017 at various locations around Maribor. Tickets are already on sale. Welcome!
Do you want a slightly different New Year's Eve? Then you can go to the theater for New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve will also be celebrated on theater and opera stages. In Ljubljana, we are invited to operetta and various performances, in Maribor to opera and in Mengš to comedy. Here are the best New Year's Eve shows of 2016!
Once again this year, SNG Maribor will spoil us with a Christmas-New Year's concert by the house symphony orchestra. Get ready for an unforgettable musical event and brighten up the festive December days for yourself and your loved ones.
On September 30, 2016, the opera Don Pasqueale will premiere at SNG Maribor. The comic opera about love affairs and marital problems was written by Gaetano Donizetti at the beginning of the 19th century. The opera was directed by Dora Ruždjak Podolski, the orchestra will be conducted by Gianluca Martinenghi, and Giuseppe Esposito and Jaki Jurgec will perform in the lead roles. Tickets are already on sale.
The new season of Maribor Drama will be opened by a performance based on Colm Tóibín's novel Mary's Testament (2012), designed by Livija Pandur and her colleagues according to Tomaž's theatrical vision. The performance is a tribute to the theater genius Tomaž Pandur, who was torn from our world far too quickly by cruel fate.
The premiere of the play 1981 is coming to SNG Maribor, where we will be able to witness a story that unites and separates two times - the first, which in the homeland of "order and work" joined forces in style, swore to the honorable Titova, full of factories and sincere comrades, and the second , the current one, where promises are no longer binding, where the sword of power is wielded only by self-sufficiently arrogant individuals who "for the devil" sell the state's, once people's, infrastructure.
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 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.
On Saturday, February 13, SNG Maribor will host SNG Nova Gorica with a performance that is perfect for all children (and children at heart). The fairy-tale musical The Wizard of Oz is a story written by Lyman Frank in 1900, and it is still experiencing many new film and theater adaptations today.
On the last night of the year, an opera by the composer Gioacchino Rossini will be performed on the stage of SNG Maribor, which is famous as one of the most popular and most frequently performed comic operas of all time: The Barber of Seville.
Directed by Ivica Buljan, HNK (Hrvatsko narodno kazalište) Zagreb will host the premiere of the drama Miroslav Krleža Vučjak on June 15 in Maribor.