Performance about the performance we’ve cancelled
Viva Verdi under the pretext that it is a protest deals with reasons what an artist should do and what for. On the sense of creating that which no one needs. On the nonsense of creating that which is expected. The performance created about artistic laziness, is a story that runs around questions whether it is possible to combine opera and performance and why this should be impossible.
“Via Negativa managed to connect the incompatible; a subtle analysis of sloth, Verdi and his opera with the physical and ideological unyielding of the performance.” (VEČERNJI LIST ZAGREB, July 2006)
“Via Negativa showed exceptional theatrical nerve, energy, invention, imagination, demonstrating without restraints where the European theatre goes.” (VJESTNIK ZAGREB, 3.7. 2006)
Credits
Credits
Conceived and devised by the group
Performers: Kristian al Droubi, Petra Govc, Barbara Kukovec, Marko Mandić, Barbara Matijević, Sanela Milošević, Katarina Stegnar, Dylan Tighe, Petra Zanki, Grega Zorc
Concept and direction: Bojan Jablanovec
Opera consultant: Ivanka Boljkovac
Arias from operas of Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto, Nabucco, Il trovatore, Un ballo in maschera, La traviata performed at Eurokaz Festival by opera singers Ivanka Boljkovac, Dijana Hilje, Maja Mejovšek, Tvrtko Stipić, Vitomir Marof; a choir HNK Opera Zagreb and pianist Darjana Blaće.
Producers: Špela Trošt, Kornelija Čović
Production: Via Negativa, Kampnagel Hamburg, Eurokaz Zagreb, HNK Opera Zagreb, 2006
Co-production: Glej Theatre Ljubljana in &TD Theatre Zagreb
Support: Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana
Premiere: 30 June 2006, Croatian National Theatre, HNK Opera Zagreb at the Eurokaz Festival Zagreb
According to critics of Ljubljana’s Dnevnik daily Best show of the 2006/07 season in Ljubljana.
