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!
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.
Swan Lake is without a doubt that ballet masterpiece that captivates audiences again and again. The story of Princess Odette, who turns into a beautiful swan as a result of a spell, along with the fairy-tale music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the choreography of Viktor Latvinov, will enchant with costumes and original scenography at SNG Maribor.
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.
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.
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 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.
Kralj na Betajnova, a socially critical drama about the complete collapse of ethics and justice, first comes to SNG Drama Ljubljana, then to SNG Drama Maribor.
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 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.
Uncertainty in the Šentflorjan Valley is without a doubt a work that, regardless of how many times it has been performed on the stage of Slovenian theaters, always makes us laugh and at the same time makes us laugh with its critical message. Even in 2014, Slovenian svetohlinstvo is no different from the year 1907, when Ivan Cankar wrote his famous farce.