Jakov Gotovac
ERO THE JOKER
A comic opera in three acts
Libretto after the motives of a folk tale written by Milan Begović
The flrst performance: Zagreb, 2. studenog 1935
Opening night: CNT Split, November 30, 2001



Conductor: Hari Zlodre
Director: Krešimir Dolenčić

Vrlika, Česma, July 29 2007

Set Designer: Dinka Jeričević
Costume Designer: Danica Dedijer
Choreographer, based on Oskar Harmos' choreography: Lucijano Perić
Assistant Choreographer: Čiča Branka Trumbić
Assistant Director: Irena Šurik
Chorus Master: Ana Šabašov
Light Designer: Zoran MIhanović

Uloge:
MIĆA, Ero the Joker: Miljenko Đuran
MARKO, ich peasant: Ivica Čikeš
DOMA, his second wife: Žana Bučević
ĐULA, Marko’s daughter: Božena Svalina
SIMA, the miller: Alen Ruško
Young Shepherd: Marija Bubić Jaman
CNT SPLIT CHORUS, ORCHESTRA AND BALLET
Dance ansamble KUD JEDINSTVO

 

Ero - performed in its most natural environment

Ero the Joker, composed to the script of the writer Milan Begović, is the only Croatian opera performed abroad, chiefly in Germany. Disguise exploit of a rich farmer, called Mićo, who pretends to have come from the other world in order to test the devotion and nature of the girl he loves, is developed through a rich sequence of funny situations and actions. The opera is full of beautiful folk songs that Gotovac incorporated in his work with a skill of great artist. A fresh and live stage life pulsates in the opera. People with human virtues and faults live there. Deprived of pathos, full of sparkling satire, this opera ranks among the best works of Slavic opera literature.
This summer it will be performed in its most natural environment – where it originally came from – in Vrlika, Begović’s birth place, as well as birth place of many folkloric impetuses that Gotovac so ingeniously incorporated into Ero the Joker.