Madlenianum Opera and Theatre

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Madlenianum Opera and Theatre
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Madlenianum Opera and Theatre
Madlenianum Opera and Theatre is located in Belgrade
Madlenianum Opera and Theatre
Madlenianum Opera and Theatre
Location within Belgrade
AddressGlavna Street, 32
LocationZemun, Belgrade, Serbia
Coordinates44°50′44″N 20°24′39″E / 44.84556°N 20.41083°E / 44.84556; 20.41083Coordinates: 44°50′44″N 20°24′39″E / 44.84556°N 20.41083°E / 44.84556; 20.41083
OwnerZepter International
TypeTheatre
Capacity524
Construction
Opened25 December 1997; 24 years ago (1997-12-25)
General contractorMadlena Zepter
Website
operatheatremadlenianum.com
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Location within neighborhood

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.[1] 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 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 and it is located in the building that previously housed the second stage of the National Theatre of Serbia. 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.[2] Premieres marked with "*" are still in the repertory.

Name Author, Composer,
Choreographer		 Premiere In repertory
to date
Opera Il matrimonio segreto Domenico Cimarosa 1999
Ballet by 1999
Opera The Rape of Lucretia Benjamin Britten 1999
Opera Il signor Bruschino Gioachino Rossini 2000
Opera Die Kluge Carl Orff 2000
Opera Bedřich Smetana 2001
Ballet by 2001
Gustav Mahler, Ballet by Duška Sifnios and 2002
Triptych Ballet by 2004
Miloš Crnjanski 2005
Vladan Radoman 2005
Opera Jacques Offenbach 2005
Don Quixote Mikhail Bulgakov 2005
Prometheus bound Aeschylus 2006
Ballet by Renato Zanella 2006
Opera Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 2006
Quartet Ronald Harwood 2006
Frida Kahlo 2006
*
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
() 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 2009[3]
Fernando Arrabal 2010
Opera Rita
Opera Angélique		 Gaetano Donizetti
Jacques Ibert		 2010[4]
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 2010
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote 2011
Ballet by 2011
Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Ballet by 2011
() Miro Gavran 2012
Two Serbian ballets
Two Serbian ballets 		Dušan Radić, Ballet by
Miloje Milojević, Ballet by 		2012
Musical Rebecca Michael Kunze, Sylvester Levay 2012
Opera for kids 2013
Opera for kids The Magic Flute W. A. Mozart 2013
*
Drama , 2013

Gallery[]

See also[]

Notes and references[]

  1. ^ Madlenianum Opera & Theatre at Sauter[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Official website, main page in English Archived 1 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Comic opera "Mandragola"
  4. ^ "Rita" i "Anželika" u Madlenianumu (in Serbian)

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