Madlenianum Opera and Theatre is an opera house and theatre located in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia. It is the first privately owned opera and theater company both in Serbia and in Southeast Europe.Madlenianum Opera & Theatre at Sauter It is located in Belgrade, Serbia, and was founded on 26 January 1999, by Madlena Zepter, wife of Philip Zepter, Serbian businessman. The name Madlenianum derives from Madlena Zepter's name.
History It is situated in the Old city core of Zemun, which is Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Great Importance of Serbia. The Theatre houses opera, ballet, concert programs, drama and musical repertoire.
Madlenianum was officially founded on 25 December 1997 by Gordan Dragović Černogorski opera and ballet director, and it is located in the building that previously housed the second stage of the National Theatre in Belgrade. After seven years of work and five different stages of reconstruction, a completely refurbished, reconstructed and conceptually enriched edifice opened its doors to the public on 19 April 2005.
Productions As of February 2013, the following operas, musicals and plays outside of the standard repertoire were produced at the Madlenianum.Official website, main page in English Premieres marked with "*" are still in the repertory.
Name Author, Composer, Choreographer Premiere In repertory to date Opera Il matrimonio segreto Domenico Cimarosa 1999 Orpheus in the Underworld Ballet by Krunislav Simić 1999 Opera The Rape of Lucretia Benjamin Britten 1999 Opera Il signor Bruschino Gioachino Rossini 2000 Opera Die Kluge Carl Orff 2000 Opera The two widows Bedřich Smetana 2001 Nijinsky - Golden bird Ballet by Krunislav Simić 2001 Liederabend Gustav Mahler, Ballet by Duška Sifnios and Vladimir Logunov 2002 Triptych Ballet by Ramón Oller 2004 Tesla Miloš Crnjanski 2005 Icy Firefly Vladan Radoman 2005 Opera The tales of Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach 2005 Don Quixote Mikhail Bulgakov 2005 Prometheus bound Aeschylus 2006 Wolfgang Amadé Ballet by Renato Zanella 2006 Opera Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 2006 Quartet Ronald Harwood 2006 Frida Kahlo Sanja Domazet 2006 Burlesque on the Greek Andrej Hing 2007 Musical Les Misérables Claude-Michel Schönberg 2007 The Lady from Maxim's (La Dame de chez Maxim) 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 (Miris kiše na Balkanu) Gordana Kuić 2009 Cat on a hot tin roof Tennessee Williams 2009 Opera The Mandrake (La Mandragola) Ivan Jevtić 2009Comic opera "Mandragola" Wait for me in heaven my love Fernando Arrabal 2010 Opera Rita Opera Angélique Gaetano Donizetti Jacques Ibert 2010"Rita" i "Anželika" u Madlenianumu Indian summer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 2010 Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote 2011 Celebrating of love Ballet by Aleksandar Ilić 2011 North fairy tale Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Ballet by Staša Zurovac 2011 Greta Garbo’s secret (Tajna Grete Garbo) Miro Gavran 2012 Two Serbian ballets Ballad of the stray moon Two Serbian ballets The vallet's broom Dušan Radić, Ballet by Aleksandar Ilić Miloje Milojević, Ballet by Aleksandar Ilić 2012 Musical Rebecca Michael Kunze, Sylvester Levay 2012 Opera for kids Kopriva, kopriva Milan T Ilić 2013 Opera for kids The Magic Flute W. A. Mozart 2013 Drama Pierrot Lunaire / Lenz A. Schoenberg, G. Buchner 2013
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See also List of theatres in Serbia
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