MEDITERRANEAN AS A PLACE WHERE CRAVING, WHICH BECOMES LOVE, IS EXPRESSED WITHOUT RESTRAINS

Confirming our belonging to the Mediterranean cultural tradition, the repertoire of this year's Split Summer Festival has been thematically encompassed by the relation between love and responsibility for the community, based on humanistic moral code.
Restituting ancient motives and popular expression as traditional program structure, dealing with universal questions, open to Croatian and foreign artists and their various creative sensibilities, the Festival proves to be a guarantee of our contribution to European culture and our cultural identity.
Expending its program outside the Split limits to the stages of equally important County cities it eliminates elitism and, at the same time, proves its openness to everybody, calling for collective exercise of thought and feast of spirit.
Both Racine and Shakespeare, Verdi and Prokofiev, and even Uvodić in a certain way, speak of Mediterranean as a place where craving, which becomes love, is expressed without restrains. That would be the topic of this year’s Split Summer Festival.
Like the last year, the number of shows and performances has been significantly increased due to a dispersed program.
This program with more than sixty performances in Split and other County cities, in all its variety and esthetic diversity, is proper to a typical Mediterranean community that carries the theatre as a natural heritage for centuries in its blood, nerves, memory and spirit.
Croatian National Theatre Split Manager / Director of 53rd Split Summer Festival: Milan Štrljić
 

MUSICAL PROGRAMME
OPERAS:

PREMIERE

Giuseppe Verdi: IL TROVATORE
Conductor: Ivo Lipanović
Director: Maurizio Di Mattia
Soloists: Kiril Manolov, Mihaela Komočar, Terezija Kusanović, Kamen Čanev, Zlatomira Nikolova, Ivica Čikeš, Špiro Boban, Vinko Maroević
Set Designer: Marin Gozze
Costume Designer: Danica Dedijer
Performances: Gripe  Fortress, July 14, 16 and 18

Giuseppe Verdi: NABUCCO
Conductor: Ivan Repušić
Director: Georgij Paro
Soloists: Kiril Manolov, Olga Kaminski, Ivica Čikeš, Terezija Kusanović, Martina Gojčeta, Valentina Fijačko, Saša Jakelić, Božo Župić, Vinko Maroević
Peristyle, July23. i 25. srpnja

Jakov Gotovac: ERO THE JOKER
Conductor: Hari Zlodre
Director: Krešimir Dolenčić
Vrlika, July 29

MUSICAL PROGRAMME
CONCERTS

LOS CABALLEROS Mariachi band, Zagreb
a present to the City of Split by Split Summer Festival
Trg Gaje Bulata, July 14

EVENING WITH EDIN KARAMAZOV
lute and electric guitar
Cloister of St. Anthony's Monastery, Poljud, July 17

Katarina Livljanić / based on poem by Marko Marulić: JUDITA
A biblical tale from Renaissance Crotia
Katarina Livljanić and Vocal Ensemble Dialogos, France
Diocletian's Palace Basement Hall, July 20

Maksim Fedotov - violin
Galina Petrova - piano
Meštrović Castle - Crikvine July 22

Carl Orff: CARMINA BURANA
Conductor: Ivan Repušić
Soloists: Ivana Kladarin, soprano, Sveto Matošić Komnenović, tenor, Joachim Seipp, baritone
Meštrović Castle, July 28
Kamerlengo Tower, Trogir July 30

STEFAN MILENKOVICH AND ZADAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Antonio Vivaldi THE FOUR SEASONS
Conductor: Ivan Repušić
Meštrović Castle, August 3

Vlatko Stefanovski- Miroslav Tadić,Guitar Duet and Guests
Gripe Fortress, August 4

European Union Baroque Orchestra
Conductor:Lars Ulrik Mortensen
Soloist: Lidewij van der Voort, violin
Meštrović Castle, August 5

SPLIT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conductor: Pavle Dešpalj
Soloists: Ivana Dragičević, piano
Valter Lovričević, violin
Meštrović Castle, August 8

DUBROVNIK GUITAR TRIO
Ante Skaramuca, Frano Matušić, Maroje Brčić
CNT Split Foyer, August 11
Gospojska štrada, Kaštel Sućurac, August 12

OPERA STARS SING FOR SPLIT
Soloists: Inva Mula, Valentina Fijačko, Tomislav Mužel, Kiril Manolov and Ivica Čikeš
CNT Split Choir and Orchestra
Conductor: Ivan Repušić
Split, Prokurative (Trg Republike), August 14

DRAMA PROGRAM

PREMIERES

Olja Lozica / Marko Uvodić: A BOOK ON THE BOOK BY MARKO UVODIĆ FROM SPLIT
Based on prose motives by Marko Uvodić from Split compiled by Olja Lozica
Director: Goran Golovko
Playing:
Ratko Glavina, Nives Ivanković, Nikola Ivošević, Jasmina Žiljak, Lana Barić, Nenad Srdelić, Vicko Bilandžić, Robert Kurbaša, , Ilija Zovko, Tajana Jovanović, Snježana Sinovčić- Šiškov, Ante Čedo Martinić, , Ksenija Prohaska, Silvana Stanić

CNT Split Backyard
Performances: July 19, 20, 21 and 22

Jean Racine: PHAEDRA
Director: Marco Sciaccaluga
Playing: Aleksandar Cvjetković, Bojana Gregorić, Mijo Jurišić, Dijana Vidušin, Trpimir Jurkić, Sunčana Zelenika, Lada Bonacci, Lidija Florijan
Basement Hall of Diocletian's Palace
Performances: August 9, 10, 11, 12. i 13

OFF PROGRAMME

Jorge Luis Borges / Goran Matović: MIRRORS
Narrators: Tonko Maroević and Goran Matović
Basement Hall of Diocletian's Palace: July 26, 27
Trogir City Museum July 28
Vitturi Castle, Kaštel Lukšić July 29

William Shakespeare: AS YOU LIKE IT
Director: Goran Golovko
Radionica u suradnji s Umjetničkom akademijom u Splitu
Performances: Meštrović Castle, August 6
Brce, Kaštel Stari, August 7
Kamerlengo Tower, Trogir, August 8

RERUN

Giovanni Boccaccio: DECAMERON
Director: Goran Golovko
Vila Dalmacija, August 30, 1, 2

Peter Shaffer: YONADAB
Director: Dejan Projkovski
Skopje Drama Theatre, Macedonia Meštrović Castle July 24

Milan Grgić: LITTILE PARADISE
Director: Ivana Peroš
Epilog Thetare, Zagreb
Carrarina poljana, July 25

Ksenija Zec: WEST TRAIN STATION
Director: Ksenija Zec
EXIT Theatre, Zagreb
Meštrović Castle July 29
Gospojska štrada, Kaštel Sućurac, July 30

Aristofan/Christian Duda: BIRDS
Director: Christian Achmed Gad Alkarim
Renitenz Theater, Stuttgart
Carrarina poljana, July 31

Marica Bodrožić THE PLAYER OF THE INNER HOUR
interpreted by the actors of Renitenz Theater, Stuttgart
Diocletian's Palace Basement Hall, August 1

DANCE PROGRAMME

PREMIERE

Sergei Prokofiev: ROMEO AND JULIET
Choreographer: Youri Vamos
Performances: Peristyle July 31, August 1

RERUNS

Edward Clug: TANGO
Choreographer: Edward Clug
HNK Ivana pl. Zajca, Rijeka
CNT Split, July 15

Rajko Pavlić: DOMESTICUS VULGARIS OR SIMPLY HOMEMADE
Choreographer: Rajko Pavlić
Mate Matišić/Rajko Pavlić: CONCERT FOR AN IDLER AND A LOAFER
Choreographer: Rajko Pavlić
Freedance Ensemble LIBERDANCE, Zagreb
Brce, Kaštel Novi, July 23
Carrarina poljana, July 24

Ljiljana Gvozdenović: ENCOUNTERS BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Choreographer: Ljiljana Gvozdenović
Dance Company, Zagreb
Carrarina poljana, July 27

Ksenija Zec NOS VAMOS A VER
Author and choreographer: Ksenija Zec
Theatrical Company of the Blind and Visually Imapired NEW LIFE, Zagreb
Carrarina poljana, July 26
Brce, Kaštel Novi, July 27

SPECIAL PROGRAMMES

MUNIR VEJZOVIĆ, academic painter exhibition
Milesi Palace / Kula Gallery, July 14 - 31

NIKOLA VUČEMILOVIĆ: AMAZING ANA ROJE Photo exhibition / Photo Gallery, Marmontova, July 16 - August 3

HRISTINA MANOLOV, academic painter / Art-Conservation Department Gallery July 19 - 31

THE NIGHT OF DIOCLETIAN
City Squares, July 29

EMILIJA DUPAROVA, academic painter, izložba
The City Museum of Split, August 1 - 15
JADRAN LAZIĆ. 40 YEARS OF WORK: Photo exhibition
Milesi Palace / Photo Gallery, Marmontova, August 6 - 20