Exhibitions at the 27th MBZ
6-13/4, Galerija Bačva HDLU
Opening of the exhibition and a promotion of Les Nuits, a portfolio of poetry, music and graphics
CONTRA Group - Les Nuits
concept by: Žorž Draušnik
Programme for 06.04.2013 - Saturday
19:30 - Saturday
HNKClaude Debussy: 6 epigraphes antiques / 6 Antique Epigraphs, ballet
En blanc et noir / In White and Black, ballet
Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / The Rite of Spring, ballet
Edward Clug, choreographer
Leo Kulaš, costume designer
Marko Japelj, stage designer
Andrey Gugnin and Vadym Kholodenko, pianos
Ballet ensemble of the Croatian National Theatre Zagreb
A coproduction with the Croatian National Theatre Zagreb.
MBZ Festival Pass holders can get tickets for repeat performances of the ballet (April 12, 15, 17), at the ticket office of the Croatian National Theatre.
22:00 - Saturday
Heather Roche, clarinets
Pierre Alexande Tremblay, electronics
Aaron Einbond: Resistance for prepared bass clarinet and live electronics
Ana Horvat: Pika's Tale* (commissioned by HDS MBZ) for clarinet and electronics
Chikako Morishita: Lizard (Shadow) for solo clarinet
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: La rupture inéluctable / The inevitable rupture for bass clarinet, and processing
24:00 - Saturday
HDLUKatarina Krpan, piano
Rene Medvešek, narrator
Berislav Šipuš: Les Nuits / Nights, Piano Preludes
Programme for 07.04.2013 - Sunday
12:00 - Sunday
Bajsić StudioMusMA Project
biNg bang, percussion ensembleIgor Lešnik, ensemble leader
Darijan Ivezić, conductor
Petra Strahovnik: Between East & West / Između Istoka i Zapada
Ivan Brkljačić: The Big Chasm / Veliki ponor
Francisco Novel Samano Calleja: Cage's Fandango / Cageov Fandango
Ivan Josip Skender: White Line Fever / Groznica bijele linije
Alexey Sysoev: Zaum
17:00 - Sunday
HGZInside EU
Petrit Çeku, guitar
Cornel Taranu (RO): Resonances I, for solo guitar
Michel van der Aa (NL): Auburn, for guitar and soundtrack
Ivan Buffa (SK): For Atti, for solo guitar
Atanas Ourkouzounov (BG): Caprice d'après Paganini / Caprice after Paganini
António de Sousa Dias (PT): Va(lé)riation 5-B for amplified guitar and electronics
Markku Klami (FI): Göreme, for guitar and 2-channel (stereo) tape
19:30 - Sunday
Pierrot Lunaire / Moonstruck Pierrot
Arnold Schönberg - composer; Work based on Albert Giraud's poems, translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben
Berislav Šipuš, conductor
Martina Gojčeta Silić, mezzosoprano
Pierre Boulez - composer; Work based on texts by René Char
Ivan Josip Skender, conductor
Martina Matić Borse, mezzosopran
Rene Medvešek, director
Jadran Grubišić, assistant to the director
Danijel Srdarev, art assistant and sculptural works author
Petra Dančević, costume designer
Marino Frankola, lighting design
Zagreb Puppet Theatre Puppet Ensemble
Cantus Ensemble
A co-production with the Zagreb Puppet Theatre.
(Repeat performance: 8 / 4, 7.30 pm, at the Zagreb Puppet Theatre)
22:00 - Sunday
Slagwerk Den Haag, percussion ensemble
Michael Gordon: Timber
A coproduction with the "Culture of Change" Department of the Student Centre of the University of Zagreb.
Programme for 08.04.2013 - Monday
12:00 - Monday
MM (SC)Outside EU
HR Project
Sofia Gubaidulina (RU): Sonatina, for fluteAntonija Mikas, flute
Avdo Smailović (BA): Metamorfoze / Metamorphoses, for piano
Bartolomej Stanković, piano
William Albright (US): Sonata for saxophone and piano
Marko Malivuk Jovanović, saxophone
Ana Lucić, piano
17:00 - Monday
HGZInside EU
Monika Cerovčec, soprano
Filip Fak, piano
Veljo Tormis (EE): 10 Haikus, for soprano and piano
Hanuš Bartoň (CZ): Five Songs to the poems of Suzanne Renaud, for soprano and piano
Luc Brewaeys (BE): Speechless Song, Seeming Many, Being One, for soprano
György Kurtág (HU): Requiem for the Beloved, for soprano and piano
Claude Lenners (LU): Klagelied / Lament, for soprano and piano
19:30 - Monday
The Last Flower of Summer**, an operatic fantasy in one act
Zoran Juranić, composer, director, conductor
Luko Paljetak i Zoran Juranić, authors of the libretto, based on Luko Paljetak's play of the same title
Jasna Badnjarević, costume designer
Žorž Draušnik, stage design
Deni Šesnić, lighting designer
Mr. Robert Bert - Miodrag Petrović
Bert II - Miljenko Đuran
Miss Jane Doe - Jelena Končar
Mrs. Berker, housekeeper - Violeta Srećković
Carlo the wealthy industrialist; First Policeman - Goran Krneta
Lorenzo, knife thrower - Vasa Stajkić
Vladimir the Russian; Gondolier; Mario - Saša Štulić
Young Man with a Yamaha - Igor Ksionžik
Second Man, Second Policeman - Ivan Dajić
Lady of the Night; Stripper; Blonde - Darija Olajoš Čizmić
Varieté audience; Citizens - Choir
Opera Choir and Orchestra of the Serbian National Theatre Novi Sad
Choir Conductor: Vesna Kesić Krsmanović
Assistant to the director: Katarina Mateović Tasić
Concert masters: Vladimir Ćuković, Sergej Šapovalov
Accompanists: Irina Mitrović, Milena Milovanović
Associate of the stage designer: Tomislav Šaraba
Assistant to the costume designer: Snežana Horvat
Stage Managers: Tanja Cvijić, Dejan Teodorović
Video-beam: Srđan Milovanović, Đorđe Vernački
SNP Opera Operating Manager: Lado Leš
SNP Opera Manager: Aleksandar Kojić
Novi Sad premiere: 28 / 3 / 2013
A co-production with the Serbian National Theatre Novi Sad.
**= Croatian premiere
Ensembles of the Serbian National Theatre Novi Sad
A co-production with the Serbian National Theatre Novi Sad.
21:30 - Monday
Nocturnal Demons and Ghosts of the City of Pearl
Giampaolo Coral, composer; based on the texts and designs by Alfred Kubin
Giulio Ciabatti, director
Manuel Fanni Canelles, video and multimedia author
Paolo Longo, conductor
Icarus, chamber ensemble
Francesca Franzil, soprano
Riccardo Massai, narrator
Alice Bronzi, assistant to the director
Hari Bertoja, video
Francesca Tonsi, illustrations
Programme for 09.04.2013 - Tuesday
12:00 - Tuesday
MM (SC)Outside EU
HR Project
John Cage (US): Etudes Boreales, for piano (nos 3, 4)Lucija Majstorović, piano
Gerardo Gerulewicz (VE): Tarén, for violin and piano
Marta Bratković, violin
Marko Ivić, piano
Ivana Stefanović (RS): Za Irenu, / For Irene, for flute solo
Ana Ratkajec, flute
John Cage (US): Two2 (Number Pieces), for two pianos
Ana Lucić, piano
Vlatka Peko, piano
17:00 - Tuesday
HGZInside EU
Vidmantas Bartulis (LT): Express No. 3, or Glinka and Nemirovich-Danchenko on a Train Trip from St.Petersburg to Moscow
Frank Corcoran (IE): Piano Trio
Wolfgang Rihm (DE): Fremde Szene III / Strange Scene III, for piano trio
Peteris Vasks (LV): Episodi e canto perpetuo/ Episodes and Perpetual Chant
19:30 - Tuesday
Songs for the Mating Season
chamber ballet
Borut Kržišnik, composer
Edward Clug, choreographer
Marko Japelj, set designer
Leo Kulaš, costume designer
Ballet ensemble of the Slovenian National Theatre Maribor
Nychthemeron
chamber ballet
(commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
Sanda Majurec, composer
Staša Zurovac, choreographer
Bjanka Adžić Ursulov, costume and set designer
Ballet ensemble of the Slovenian National Theatre Maribor
A co-production with the Slovenian National Theatre Maribor.
21:30 - Tuesday
L'imbalsamatore / Balzamar / The EmbalmerGiorgio Battistelli, composer
Renzo Rosso, author of the libretto
Icarus, chamber ensemble
Marco Angius, conductor
Riccardo Massai, actor
23:00 - Tuesday
Antiphonus, vocal ensemble
Tomislav Fačini, conductor
Arvo Pärt: Magnificat
Davorin Kempf: The Dawn Called the Day, madrigal
György Ligeti: Eternal Light
Olivier Messiaen: O, Holy Blessed Feast
Ante Knešaurek: Solace*
(Commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
Marko Ruždjak: Ubu
Programme for 10.04.2013 - Wednesday
12:00 - Wednesday
MM (SC)Outside EU
HR Project
Heinz Holliger (CH): Elis: Drei Nachtstücke / Elis: Three Night Pieces, for piano
Ivan Horvatić, piano
Fuminori Tanada (JP): Mysterious Morning III for soprano saxophone
Lovro Merčep, soprano saxophone
George Crumb (US): Makrokosmos - 12 Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac (selection), for amplified piano
Sanja Vrsalović, piano
17:00 - Wednesday
HGZInside EU
Uroš Rojko (SI): Krog II / Circle II
Thomas Adès (GB): Arcadiana
Charles Camilleri (MT): String Quartet no. 2, Silent Spaces
Henri Dutilleux (FR): Ainsi la nuit / Thus the night
19:30 - Wednesday
Black Masks
opera in two acts
Josip Vidmar, Marij Kogoj, authors of the libretto, based on the play Black Masks by Leonid Andreyev
Marko Hribernik, conductor
Janez Burger, director
Irena Svoljšak, revival director
Uroš Lajovic, editor of the music score
Alan Hranitelj, costume designer
Numen, Ivana Radenović, stage designers
Pascal Mérat, lighting designer
Edward Clug, stage movement
Tanja Lužar, assistant to the director
Lorenzo di Spadaro, duke - Jože Vidic
Ecco, jester - Dušan Topolovec
Donna Francesca, Beautiful mask - Andreja Zakonjšek Krt
Signor Cristoforo - Saša Čano
Petruccio - Sebastijan Čelofiga
Romualdo, singer - Martin Sušnik
Lorenzo›s double - Jaki Jurgec
First lady, Leonora - Valentina Čuden
Second lady, Emilija - Amanda Stojović
Mario - Marko Mandir
Carlo - Rok Bavčar
Manucci - Alfonz Kodrič
Pietro - Klemen Gorenšek
Filippo - Peter Skušek
Heart; Peasant Woman - Martina Ledinek
Red Mask, Mouth - Dada Kladenik
New Mask - Mojca Potrč
Peasant - Gregor Mlakar
Spider (red mask) - Emil Baronik
Very Beautiful Mask (Lie) - Leonida Sabo
Mask from the Arcade - Robert Mraček
A Gentleman (Silvio) - Danilo Vračko
Ugly Mask - Nevenka Kiseljak
Stable-boy, Gentleman, Voice From Afar - Bojan Hinteregger
Principal Black Mask - Miha Mikluš
The Long Grey One - Sytze Jan Luske
Ladies and gentlemen from the Duke and Duchess› entourage. Masks invited by Duke Lorenzo.
Black Masks, not invited by the Duke. Musicians, servants, peasants.
Intermission after the first act.
Choir and Orchestra of the Slovenian National Theatre Maribor:
Benjamin Pionnier, music director
Zsuzsa Budavari-Novak, choirmaster
Edward Clug, SNG Ballet director
Programme for 11.04.2013 - Thursday
12:00 - Thursday
Outside EU
The New Music Group of the Elly Bašić Music School
Josip Nalis, conductor
Maja Petyo Bošnjak, Group leader
Katia Beaugeais (AU): First Light, for flute and piano
Dino Rešidbegović (BA): Geronimo*
(commissioned by the New Music Group)
John Cage (US): 4'33''
John Cage: Living Room Music
John Cage: Toy Piano Suite
17:00 - Thursday
Inside EU
Evis Sammoutis (CY): Breath
Juan-Cruz Guevara (ES): Miscegenation
Rocco Abate (IT): Ombra
(commissioned by the Zagreb Wind Ensemble)
Per Nřrgĺrd (DK): Whirl‘s World
Ivo Nilsson (SE): Apnea
19:30 - Thursday
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and Choir
Aleksandar Kalajdžić, conductor
Monika Leskovar, cello
Goran Jurić, basso
Nina Cossetto i Luka Vukšić, choirmasters
Witold Lutosławsky: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
***
Stanko Horvat: The Pit, cantata for basso, choir and orchestra
A co-production with the Department of Music Production of the Croatian Radio and Television and its Masters Cycle.
21:30 - Thursday
Zeitfluss
chamber ensemble
Edo Mičić, conductor
Đuro Živković, viola
Thomas Amann: Territory Matters
Ališer Sijarić: Snakes of Time
Ivana Kiš: Lament for Joe D. Busker
Orestis Toufektsis: Chromades*
(commissioned by Zeitfluss)
Đuro Živković: The Marine Cemetery II
Christian Klein: Underneath the Stones
Programme for 12.04.2013 - Friday
17:00 - Friday
HGZInside EU
Festival Sextet
Iannis Xenakis (GR/FR): Ittidra, string sextet
Georg Friedrich Haas (AT): Sextet for three violas and three cellos
Krzysztof Penderecki (PL): Sextet for clarinet, horn, string trio and piano
19:30 - Friday
Luca Pfaff, conductor
Ivana Srbljan, mezzosoprano
Mia Elezović, piano
Vedran Kocelj, trumpet
Danijel Legin: Nebula, for symphonic orchestra* (commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
Tomislav Oliver: Vacana, for voice and orchestra* (commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
***
Davorin Kempf: Concerto corale, concerto for piano and orchestra* (commissioned by the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra)
Milko Kelemen: Tromberia, for trumpet and orchestra* (commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
21:30 - Friday
chamber ensemble
Miro Dobrowolny, conductor
Miro Dobrowolny: Bridges
Ruben Radica: Twilight Poem, for a string quartet
Jorg Peter Mittmann: transit - four allegories for a string quintet
(commissioned by the ART Ensemble)
Bruno Strobl: gates and gates and... for ensemble*
(commissioned by the ART Ensemble)
23:00 - Friday
Ansambl Klang / Klang Ensemble: ElectrifiedKate Moore: 101
Yannis Kyriakides: God Good Luck
Peter Adriaansz: Wave 3
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies [selection]
Pete Harden: Steel Wounds & Beaten Sounds
A coproduction with the "Culture of Change" Department of the Student Centre of the University of Zagreb.
Programme for 13.04.2013 - Saturday
17:00 - Saturday
Inside EU
Festival Septet
Ivan Josip Skender (HR), conductor
Srećko Bradić (HR): Bitch Septet
(commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
Dalibor Bukvić (HR): A Short Break*
(commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
Sanja Drakulić (HR): Feathers Fly
(commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
Vjekoslav Nježić (HR): Septet*
(commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
Berislav Šipuš (HR): Ton Hutti (Adhianan)*
(commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
Zlatko Tanodi (HR): Fairy Tale*
(commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
Mladen Tarbuk (HR): Ad confusionem versus*
(commissioned by HDS-MBZ)
19:30 - Saturday
The Nightingale,
a lyrical tale in three acts
Igor Stravinski, composer
Igor Stravinski i Stepan Mitusov, authors of the libretto, based upon The Nightingale, a fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen
Act I
Act II
Entr'acte
Marche Chinoise
Chansons du Rossignol
Jeu du Rossignol Mécanique
Act III
Introduction
La Mort
Cortège Solennel
Dora Ruždjak Podolski, director
Mladen Tarbuk, conductor
Jasenka Ostojić, choir-master
Georg Draušnik, orchestra leader
Darijan Ivezić, assistant to the conductor
Marina Pejnović, assistant to the director
Translation of the libretto, French language consultant - Lidija Orešković Dvorski
The Nightingale - Ilijana Korać
Cook - Iva Krušić
Fisherman - Bože Jurić Pešić
Emperor - Leon Košavić
Chamberlain - Teo Visintin
Bonzo - Emil Martinović
Death - Tena Lebarić Rašković
Japanese envoys - Mario Filipović, Toni Nežić, Igor Krišto
Zagreb Music Academy Symphony Orchestra and Choir;
concert master: Lorena Milina
Students of the Franjo Lučić Art School, Velika Gorica - dancers
co-producers, costume design, hair and make-up, set design, lighting design, lighting technicians, animations, photographers, camera operators, documentary film:
Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts
Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art
Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology
There is no intermission.
A co-production with the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall and their Lisinski Subotom concert cycle.





