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G. Paro: "I Want the Audience to Hear the Singers, to See Peristyle, and to Enjoy Listening to Verdi's Music!" |
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"A director who decides to deal with Nabucco on Peristyle is inevitably caught in a trap: on one side he has to fulfill expectations which are the result of a tradition, and at the same time, especially nowdays, he is expected to find something new, 'something that has not been seen before'. Otherwise, one might ask a question whether a new performance of the play had been necessary, since the old one had been good enough. I brought my final decision at the moment I spoke the following sentence loudly: I want the audience to hear the singers, to see Peristyle, to be relaxed while following the plot and to enjoy listening to Verdi's music! It was the sentence that defined my relation to the play completely. Since I have tried to be faithful to the score, I decided to go with the scenic minimalism and to give up everything superfluous that is, anyway, as a rule, part of a director's vanity, megalomania of a stage setting and straying of a costume design . |
G. Paro is looking for the answers to the question why new Nabucco is necessary |
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Premieres of Euripid’s Alcestis and Macchiavelli’s Mandragola as Interesting Steps Forward in the Festival Programme |
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Some people will say ‘ what, only two drama premieres ? ’and others will reply ‘ yes, but they are worthy ! ’. Some will draw our attention to numerous and heterogenous guest performances of the drama programme and others will remind us of the fact that this season’s performances have just been performed on new, open stages in the summer period. However, more important than the numbers is the fact that both Alcestis and Mandragola have gathered standing authors and actors and they are expected to be hits of the Festival programme. Mandragola has not been performed in Split since Tomislav Tanhofer directed the play in 1963 and it is well known that comedy has been a favourite genre of Krešimir Dolenčić, a master of all theatre genres... As for the completely forgotten Alcestis (last performance was in Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb in 1909!) we must mention excellent translation of the play by Lada Kaštelan, Zlatko Sviben as a director and the whole ensemble of actors : Zoja Odak, Ante Čedo Martinić, Edita Majić, Mustafa Nadarević, Milan Pleština, Mirko Kraljev, Trpimir Jurkić... |
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Rich Ballet Programme of Split Summer Festival: E. CLUG, A. TRESSOR, R. BE'ER, S. ZUROVAC, R. PAVLIĆ... |
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If it stays unchanged, the ballet and dance programme of the 49th Split Summer Festival will be among the most interesting ones in the last few years of the Festival. There will be five ballet programmes performed on Gripe Fortress and Braća Radić Square. On Gripe Fortress we will see LACRIMAS performed by the Ballet of SNT Maribor, choreography by Edward Clug. The Fortress of Gripe is also going to be a new stage for this year successful premiere of A. Tressor’s UNDER THE GOLDEN SUN. On Braća Radić Square we will see presentational performance of the international Dance Workshop, dance performance GIVE ME A BREAK by Dance Group Liberdance from Zagreb, choreography by Rajko Pavlić and direction by Ivan Leo Lemo. At the beginning of August, Israeli choreographer Rami Be’er is preparing the premiere of a ballet triptych, together with Staša Zurovac, a choreographer and a dancer from Zagreb who received a standing ovation from the audience at Split Summer Festival last year. |
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Two Years Later, Piano Recital of Nikica Lesić again at Split Summer Festival: BROKEN SILENCE |
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Since recently, Nikica Lesić is among the most prestigious names of the piano players. Since his performance at Carnegie Hall on 3rd May, 2003 where he played Rachmaninoff, Bodegrajac, Babadjanyan, Taktakishvil and Khachaturian, nothing has been the same. However, Split and Split Summer Festival have recognized his excelllent performance even before Carnegie Hall. He won the music award Peristyle for the recital in Vestibul in 2001.This year, his piano recital planned for 27th July 2003 has been expected with impatience and great interest. Certainly this follower of Liszt – Ziloti school of piano playing is once again going to show us why he belongs to the circle of the most interesting young piano players. At the concert for Split Summer Festival audience -Broken Silence- he will play the same programme as at the Carnegie Hall concert. |
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Laura Niculescu as Aida; Mauro Augustini as Amonasro; Davide Damiani as Nabucco... |
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In five opera performances of Aida and Nabucco on Peristyle, besides the names of solo-singers we already enjoyed listening to such as Zlatomira Nikolova, Ivica Čikeš, Nelli Manuilenko, Adela Golac Rilovic...numerous new singers are going to appear. Among them, it is worth mentioning Laura Niculescu (an Italian singer of Roumanian origin). After her very succesful performances of Tosca in Italy and Florida, of Amelia (Masked Ball) in Ottawa, she will sing Aida with Janez Lotric as Radames at Split Summer Festival. Mauro Augustini, an Italian barytone who is world famous for his performances in Verdi’s operas, will sing the role of Amonasro. In Nabucco, a famous Slovene tenor Branko Robinsak will appear as Ismaele and Davide Damiani, an Italian barytone as Nabucco. Damiani is famous on the world stages not only as an eccellent singer but as a conductor, since he started his own career as a conductor. |
Mauro Augustini as Amonasro in Aida |
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Carmina Burana and Vjekoslav Sutej are not Coming to Split Summer Festival, Alcestis cannot Be Performed in Villa Dalmatia |
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Lack of money that has been following the programme of the 49th Split Summer Festival from the beginning has forced the organizers to give up the realization of one-act play Carmina Burana conducted by maestro Šutej and done in co-operation with Dubrovnik Summer Festival. Probably, the Italian quest performance of the play Sea-gull by Chekhov directed by Nekrosius has been cancelled for the same reasons. However, we are not sure what exactly were the reasons that forced the municipal authorities of the City of Split not to allow the performing of Alcestis in Villa Dalmatia, although financial reasons were mentioned the most frequently here as well. Nevertheless, the Festival announces rich and heterogeneous programme with numerous interesting guest performances among which the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and its artistic director, choreographer Rami Be’er certainly stands out. |
Rami Beer: BUTTERFLIES |
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Boris Ljubičić and Split Summer Festival in Co-operation ‘Essential for Split and Split Summer Festival’ |
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Visual identity of the 49th Split Summer Festival has been given in charge of Boris Ljubičić, a designer whose name is as renowned as the Festival itself. He explained his designs for the Festival in a way characteristic for him, directly and openly when he was still applying for the job: ‘I am free to notice that earlier designs for the visual identity of Split Summer Festival offered solutions dealing primarily with their author's creative ideas and with the name of the Festival written in neutral or some other typography and that was ALL! (...) Perhaps, compared to the “tomatoes” of the last year’s Festival you might find this visual identity classic, conventional or simply ‘seen before’ but as its author I think it is essential for Split and Split Summer Festival.’ |
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