The European Opera Days 2010
8-9 May 2010
‘Crossing Bridges’
EUROPEAN OPERA DAYS CELEBRATED
IN
MADLENIANUM OPERA AND THEATRE
Belgrade, Zemun, Glavna 32
May 8 – 9, 2010
During the previous weekend, the programme under the common title Crossing Bridges took place simultaneously in 97 opera houses in 21 European countries, from Norway and Russia to Spain and Serbia, and attracted a 100,000-strong audience.
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Madlenianum Opera and Theatre participated in marking European Opera Days on May 8-9, 2010 with the project
Opera – Universal Bridge between Cultures
Madlenianum thus joined the Opera Europa members in honouring, together with its guests and participants, the unity of diversity of cultures of a large number of nationalities living in Serbia, and presented as part of this celebration the comic opera Mandragola by composer Ivan Jevti?. The opera was developed by an international team of authors, showing in this fashion as well the accord and harmony of diversity of artistic creativity promoted by Madlenianum Opera and Theatre from its very beginning.
This diversity of creative expression offered all of us a unique opportunity to mark EUROPEAN OPERA DAYS with extraordinary events, and truly present OPERA as UNIVERSAL BRIDGE BETWEEN CULTURES.
During this weekend Madlenianum offered hospitality to over a thousand participants.
Saturday, May 8
The commencement of festivities in Madlenianum was marked by the sound of fanfare and opening words of Mr Eduard Ille, Acting President of the Managing Board.
Immediately afterwards the KUD BRANKO RADICEVIC from Zemun took to the Foyer stage, introducing us through their numbers into the world of dance:
Serbian dances
Sopluk
Gipsy love dance.
Different societies of various nationalities living on Serbian soil took turns on the stage at each hour:
14:00 HOR BRACA BARUH Serbian-Jewish singing society from Belgrade
Rafailo Blam – Yoshev B'seter
Naomi Shemer arr. – Eli, Eli
Gouden Aren arr. – Shibolet basade
Daniel Faktori arr. – Hava Nagila
15:00 DUO MODERATO from Zemun
Jasmina Pajevic, violoncello
Milan Ignjatovic, guitar and composer
“A Novel Reading” of music heritage
16:00 DNUK KOLOMEJKA from Sremska Mitrovica
Ukrainian dance HOPAK
Ukrainian folk song
Shepherds’ dances
17:00 German Society DONAU from Novi Sad
Choir NEUSATZER ECHO
An die Freude
Heimat ach Heimat
Schön ist die Jugend
18:00 Society of Slovenians SAVA from Belgrade
POJOCA DRUŽBA, seven old Slovenian folk songs
Theatrical makeup workshop was open on both Saturday and Sunday, and the visitors had the opportunity to see how experienced masters of that craft make up models and style their hair, like they do for artists before a performance.
Younger visitors were very active in a painting workshop realized in cooperation with Ms Miomira Jovic, applied artist from Zemun, Belgrade. Interesting works of the children that illustrate their view of the festivities are now exhibited in Madlenianum Foyer.
On Sunday, May 9, the program of the celebration in Madlenianum Foyer continued:
13:00 KUD STEAUA from Belgrade – Ovca
Romanian folk dances
14:00 Hungarian KD PETEFI ŠANDOR from Becej
Group SELENCE and CIKOŠ Orchestra
Hungarian folk songs
15:00 KUD TARAS ŠEVCENKO from Djurdjevo
Tambura players
Singing folklore group
Ruthenian folk songs
16:00 Croatian Cultural Educational Society TOMISLAV from Golubinci
Tambura section HKPD TOMISLAV
Songs from Srem and Vojvodina
17:00 Croatian Cultural Educational Society TOMISLAV from Golubinci
Tambura section HKPD TOMISLAV
Songs from Srem and Vojvodina
18:00 KUD SOKO from Indjija
Original music group KORDUN
Songs and traditional folk dances of Kordun get-togethers
19:00 IVAN DEBELJAK – diatonic accordion
Cycle of Slovenian dances
LARGE STAGE
Sunday, May 9
18:10 Visitors and guests – participants of the programme could hear an interesting story told by the stage
manager Vesna Curcic – Petrovic and thus learn the secrets of creating an opera performance
19:30 The highlight of the celebration was the performance of comic opera Mandragola by composer Ivan Jevtic
Opera Mandragola, created by an international team of authors, symbolizes bridges between artists of different nationalities from different countries, just as our guests do, being of different nationalities and coming from different parts of Serbia.
A number of our guests came to the performance wearing their national costumes, and it was a first ever opera performance for some of the guests.
After the performance there was a cocktail party in the Foyer for the participants, and the refreshments served were typical for all the regions of Serbia where our guests come from, and the wine offered was from Experimental Farm of the Agricultural Faculty “Radmilovac”
Saturday, May 8 and Sunday, May 9
from 13:00 to 19:00
The visitors had the opportunity to see an excellent exhibition of paintings of naïve and marginal art
The exhibits on display came from:
Museum of Naïve and Marginal Arts from Jagodina
Gallery of Naïve Art from Kovacica
Desanka and Vojkan Morar
An exhibition of hand-made objects in the tradition of old crafts and motifs, everyday use articles linked to folklore, books, presentations of long-standing arts and crafts...
Authors:
DNUK KOLOMEJKA from Sremska Mitrovica
CROATIAN KPD TOMISLAV from Golubinci
JEWISH COMMUNITY from Belgrade
SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION LASTAVICA from Surcin
ASSOCIATION ETNO MREŽA (ETHNO NETWORK) from Belgrade
ASSOCIATION OF HOSTS IN ECO-RURAL TOURISM in cooperation with ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN from Skorenovac
German Society DONAU from Novi Sad
ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN from Kovacica
KUD TARAS ŠEVCENKO from Djurdjevo
HOBBI ART from Zemun
A special thrill for out-of-town participants and guests was organized by Tourist Society of ZEMUN – sightseeing of Zemun on Sunday, May 9, under the professional guidance of Ms Mira Nikolic and Prof. Božidar Stefanovic.