Madlenianum Opera and Theatre

Madlenianum Opera and Theatre

Madlenianum
Address Glavna Street, 32, Zemun
City Belgrade
Country Serbia
Owned by Zepter International
Capacity 524 seats
Opened 26th January 1999
Years active 1999 - present
Previous names National Theatre Zemun
www.madlenianum.rs

Madlenianum Opera and Theatre is the first privately owned opera and theater company both in Serbia and in south-eastern Europe.[1] It is located in Belgrade, Serbia, and was founded on 26 January 1999, by Madlena Zepter, wife of the Philip Zepter, Serbian businessman. The name Madlenianum derives from the Madlena Zepter's name.

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History

Madlenianum was officially founded on 25 December 1997, while first performance on 26 January 1999 marks theater public revelation. Madlenianum is located in the building that previously housed second stage of National Theatre of Serbia. After seven years of work and five different stages of reconstruction, on 19 April 2005, a completely refurbished, reconstructed and conceptually enriched edifice opened its doors to the public. It is situated in the Old city core of Zemun, which is Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Great Importance of Serbia. Theatre housed opera, ballet, concert program, drama and musical repertoire.

Productions

As of 2010, the following operas, musicals and plays were in the repertoire of the Madlenianum [2]. Premieres marked with "*" are still in the repertoar.

Name Author, Composer,
Choreographer
Premiere In repertory
to date
Il matrimonio segreto Domenico Cimarosa 1999
Orpheus in the Underworld Ballet by Krunislav Simić 1999
*
The Rape of Lucretia Benjamin Britten 1999
Il signor Bruschino Gioachino Rossini 2000
Die Kluge Carl Orff 2000
The Two Widows Bedřich Smetana 2001
Nijinsky - Golden bird Ballet by Krunislav Simić 2001
Liederabend Gustav Mahler, Duška Sifnios and Vladimir Logunov 2002
Triptych Ramon Oller 2004
Tesla Miloš Crnjanski 2005
Icy Firefly Vladan Radoman 2005
The Tales of Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach 2005
Don Quixote Mikhail Bulgakov 2005
Prometheus Bound Aeschylus 2006
Wolfgang Amadé Renato Zanella 2006
Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 2006
Quartet Ronald Harwood 2006
Frida Kahlo Sanja Domazet 2006
La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi 2006
*
Madam Butterfly Giacomo Puccini 2007
Burlesque on the Greek Andrej Hing 2007
Les Misérables Claude-Michel Schönberg 2007
*
The Lady From Maxim's Georges Feydeau 2008
Opera The Diary of Anne Frank Grigory Frid 2008
The Bereaved Family (Ožalošćena porodica) Branislav Nušić 2008
*
The scent of rain in the Balkans Gordana Kuić 2009
*
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams 2009
*
Opera La Mandragola Ivan Jevtić 2009[3]
*
Rita
Angélique
Gaetano Donizetti
Jacques Ibert
2010[4]
*
Indian summer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 2010
*
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote 2011
*

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