Season’s Highlights
Season’s Highlights
Theatre and dance performance
6 and 7 November 2006 at 20.00 h
Amelia and Agripina Subscription and Non-subscription Series
Josef Nadj
Asobu
Homage to Henri Michaux
This year’s European Theatre Award went to Josef Nadj, born in Kanjiza, Vojvodina, who is a long-standing collaborator of the National Choreographic Centre Orléans.
Nadj draws inspiration from the Belgian-born French painter, journalist and poet, Henri Michaux (1899-1984), who explored human suffering through dreams, fantasies and various drug-induced experiments. Nadj finds Michaux compelling above all because of his in-depth exploration of different forms of expression and numerous travels, which impressed Michaux’s creative universe of fictitious people and small, unusual tribes. Michaux travelled to Japan, where he created A Barbarian in Asia. It was there that Nadj began to create Asobu. He was joined by Japanese contemporary dancers, some of them also practising the butoh dance form. Costumes, masks and puppets appear in Nadj’s puzzling dance story. The bodies of dancers intertwine, change shape, twist and curve, fall or rise, expressing intense inner worlds, and the satiation of what is material. Nadj journeys into the domain of the body and matter.
The performance is dedicated to Thomas Erdos.
Gallus Hall
Choreography and set design: Josef Nadj; Music: Akosh Szelevényi, Szilárd Mezei; Light design: Rémi Nicolas; Set: Michel Tardif and Avignon festival workshops; Decor: Jacqueline Bosson; Costume design: Yasco Otomo; Video design: Thierry Thibaudeau; Performers: Guillame Bertrand, Istvan Bickei, Damie Fournier, Peter Gemza, Mathilde Lapostolle, Cécile Loyer, Nasser Martin-Gousset, Josef Nadj, Katleen Reynolds, Gyork Szakonyi, Ikuyo Kuroda (Cie BATIK), Mineko Saito (Companie Idevian Crew); Dairakudakan butoh group (Ikko Tamura, Pijin Neji, Tomosi Shioya, Yusuke Okuyama); Musicians: Akosh Szelevényi, Szilárd Mezei, Gildas Etevenard, Ervin Malina.
Co-producers: Centre chorégraphique national Orléans, Avignon Festival, Setagaya Public Theatre (Tokyo), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione (Modena); with the support of producers Carré Saint Vincent, Scéne Nationale d'Orléans de Singel (Antwerp), and Cankarjev dom; supported by the Japanese foundation “Performing Arts Japan”, Culture 2000, Kirin Brewery, Shiseido and Air France.
December Festivities
27, 29 and 30 December 2006 at 19.30 h
31 December 2006 at 20.00 h
Peter I. Tchaikovsky
THE NUTCRACKER – A Christmas Story
Youri Vàmos’ ballet for children and adults
Director and choreographer: Youri Vàmos
Conductor: Marko Gašperšič
Set and costume design: Michael Scott
Assistant Choreographers: Joyce Cuoco, Uwe Schröter
First rendition: 28 November 2002 by the SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana
The magical and extremely popular ballet, The Nutcracker – A Christmas Story,by Hungarian choreographer and director Youri Vàmos conjures up the mirthful December atmosphere whenever performed by the SNG Opera and Ballet ensemble from Ljubljana. “Glitteringly snowbound, charming, joyous and expectations-raising performance, as befits the Christmastide.”
Choreographer and librettist Marius Petipa based one of the finest ballet fantasies on Dumas’ adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, and Vàmos complemented it with the world-celebrated and timeless novella, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. The story revolves around an embittered misanthropic, Christmas-hating skinflint. Confronted with his wrongs in his dreams, the man repents and becomes a loving and generous person. Conveying the profound message that kindness and compassion for a fellow human being can make one happy, the performance has already recorded forty-one renditions at the SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana.
“Pleasing to the eye and inviting to children’s imagination, the ballet is a picturesque performance for lovers of fine music and ballet virtuosity.” (D. Podboj)
The set and costumes of The Nutcracker have been fashioned at the Lower Saxony State Theatre Hanover (Niedersächsische Staatstheater Hannover Gmbh.) and will be presented in their full scale on the grand stage of Cankarjev dom for the first time.
Gallus Hall
Jules Massenet
Don Quichotte
Opera in five acts
Libretto: Henri Cain, inspired by the play by Jacques Le Lorrain, based on the novel by M. Cervantes
First performance: Monte Carlo, 1910
Opening nights:19 and 20 January 2007, Gallus Hall
Eight subsequent performances until 2 February 2007
Performed by: an international cast of soloists, choir, ballet and orchestra of the SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana
Music Director: Peter Feranec
Director and set design: Thomas Schulte-Michels
Choreography: Norbert Steinwarz
Costume design: Renate Schmitzer
Light design: Andrej Hajdinjak
Co-production: SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljanaand Cankarjev dom
Don Quixote – The Story of a Fighter for Dreams
In 2005, the literary world celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of the novel by Miguel de Cervantes about a noble knight-errant who symbolises immaculate, tragic and sublime nobleness – ridiculous, yet never underrated idealism.
“In a globalised world of competition, where everything and everybody is calculated at its pecuniary value, reduced to its basic material value, where every step is taken in the name of profit or lucrative advantage, it is comforting to meet a person like Don Quixote, even if he exists merely in literature or opera. A world with a breeze of spirit of this strange Spanish knight seems, to me at least, not a lost world.”
This is how the new challenge was addressed by director Thomas Schulte-Michels, who had already enthralled operatic audiences with the spectacular staging of Gounod’s Faust in CD’s Gallus Hall in January 2003.
The immediate inspiration for the libretto of Don Quichotte by Henri Cain was the incredibly resounding play by Jacques Le Lorrain, which was based on a remarkable novel about “the ingenious hidalgo de La Mancha”. The operatic structure develops between three protagonists: an idealistic, noble knight and his down-to-earth squire Sancho Panza, as well as an attractive, local belle known as Dulcinea. Compared to the original, the story has been altered considerably. Le Lorraine transformed the slovenly maid, praised in Cervantes’ novel by the mad Spanish knight, into an appealing character of worshipped, magical, flesh-and-blood beauty. The soundscape sporting amazing elegance and a sophisticated French style, Massenet devised its complexity from a refined music texture. The musician, whose compositional deftness and nonpareil mastery had been praised by his contemporaries already during his lifetime, artfully connected the five ingeniously crafted acts.
24 and 25 October 2006 at 20.00 h
Architecture of Silence
Dance and music project
Direction and choreography: Edward Clug; Conductor: Uroš Lajovic; Set design: Marko Japelj; Costume design: Leo Kulaš; Light design:Andrej Hajdinjak
Music: W. A. Mozart, Requiem; Z. Preisner, Requiem for My Friend.
Performed by: opera and ballet soloists, ballet and opera choir and orchestra of the Maribor and LjubljanaOpera Houses
Co-production: Opera and Ballet of SNG Maribor, SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, Festival Ljubljana
Director and choreographer Edward Clug has for the first time joined instrumentalists (80), singers (90) and dancers (40) from both Slovenian national opera houses in his monumental auctorial dance and music project, Architecture of Silence.
“The performance offers some eruptive, prudently and coherently blended dance scenes… The Architecture of Silence exudes a certain precious quality of foreignness. Together with his assistant Bojana Nenadović Otrin, Edward Clug, who is also one of the soloists, has created a magnificent work; it is praiseworthy that top-rate Slovenian dancers appear on the same stage.”Alen Jelen, RA SLO1
Gallus Hall
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29 November – 3 December 2006
22nd Book Fair
Main Slovenian bookselling event
Promotion of new publications and bestsellers as well as a variegated accompanying programme
Debate Café
Visitors’ Forum
Publishers’ Academy
Professional Day
Daily Special Guided Tour for School Groups
Book Fair Awards
Exhibition
CD Cultural Education Programme at the Book Fair
Comical Adventures of the Baron of Munchhausen, premiere
Croc and Friends
Quiz with Pavle Ravnohrib
The Polifemo Attraction, avant-premiere
Katalena for You … and the City
Čompe Poetry
Organised by: Society of Publishers and Booksellers of the Chamber of Commerce of Slovenia and Cankarjev dom
Sunday, 3 December, is admission-free day!
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Symphonic Music
Golden Season
Gallus Hall
17 September 2006 at 20.00 h
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Vladimir Fedoseyev
Soloist: Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet
18 October 2006 at 20.00 h
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Mario Venzago
Soloist: Martin Fröst, clarinet
27 November 2007 at 20.00 h
Camerata Salzburg
Conductor: Christian Arming
Soloist: Gianluca Cascioli, piano
10 March 2007 at 20.00 h
Orchestre National de Lyon
Conductor: Jun Märkl
Soloist: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
18 April 2007at 20.00 h
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Soloist: Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
25 May 2007 at 20.00 h
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR)
Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington
Soloist: Cornelia Kallisch, mezzo-soprano
Symphonic Music
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Gallus Hall
Orange I and II
14 and 15 September 2006 at 19.30 h
Conductor: George Pehlivanian
19 and 20 October 2006 at 19.30 h
Slovenian Chamber Choir
Consortium musicum Choir
Conductor: George Pehlivanian
Soloist: Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
9 and 10 November 2006 at 19.30 h
Conductor: Mikhail Agrest
Soloist: Armen Babakhanian, piano
14 and 15 December 2006 at 19.30 h
Conductor: Uriel Segal
Soloist: Alexander Gavrilyuk, piano
1 and 2 March 2007 at 19.30 h
Conductor:Junichi Hirokami
Soloist: Hisako Kawamura, piano
29 and 30 March 2007 at 19.30 h
Conductor: Marko Letonja
Soloist: Nebojša Jovan Živković, marimba
19 and 20 April 2007 ob 19.30
Conductor: George Pehlivanian
Soloist: Marjana Lipovšek, mezzo-soprano
17 and 18 May 2007 at 19.30 h
SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana
Conductor: Loris Voltolini
Soloists: Urška Žižek Plavec, soprano
Mirjam Kalin, alto
Jure Kušar, tenor
Robert Vrčon, baritone
14 and 15 June 2007 at 19.30 h
Slovenian Chamber Choir
Consortium musicum Choir
Conductor: George Pehlivanian
Soloists: soprano to be announced
Mirjam Kalin, alto
Branko Robinšak, tenor
Luciano Batinić, baritone
Blue I and II
21 and 22 September 2006 at 19.30 h
APZToneTomšičUniversity of Ljubljana Choir
Conductor: George Pehlivanian
Soloist: Paul Badura Skoda, piano
11 and 12 October 2006 at 19.30 h
Conductor: Heinz Holliger
Soloist: Alexander Lonquich, piano
23 and 24 November 2006 at 19.30 h
Conductor: Anton Kolar
Soloists: Stanko Arnold, trumpet
Radovan Vlatković, horn
Branimir Slokar, trombone
30 November and 1 December 2006 at 19.30 h
Conductor: Zsolt Hamar
Soloist: Ilya Gringolts, violin
15 and 16 February 2007 at 19.30 h
Conductor: George Pehlivanian
Soloists: Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak, piano
Miran Kolbl, violin
15 and 16 March 2007 at 19.30 h
Conductor: Ari Rasilainen
Soloist: Tibor Kerekeš, trumpet
12 and 13 April 2007 at 19.30 h
Slovenian Chamber Choir
Conductor: George Pehlivanian
Soloists: Mateja Arnež Volčanšek, soprano
Monika Bohinec, alto
Matjaž Stopinšek, tenor
Janko Volčanšek, bass
10 and 11 May 2007 at 19.30 h
Orchestra of Italian Switzerland
Conductor: Alain Lombard
Soloist: Zora Slokar, horn
7 and 8 June 2007 at 19.30 h
Conductor: George Pehlivanian
Soloist: Louis Lortie, piano
Symphonic Music
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
2006/07 season series
Gallus Hall
28 September 2006 at 20.00 h
Conductor: En Shao
Soloist: Shen Wenyu, piano
26 October 2006 at 20.00 h
Conductor: Evan Christ
Soloists: Matej Zupan, flute
Rita Kinka, piano
Maja Cerar, violin
16 November 2006 at 20.00 h
Conductor: Helmut Imig
4 December 2006 at 20.00 h
Conductor: En Shao
Soloist: Mate Bekavac, clarinet
22 February 2007 at 20.00 h
Conductor: Uroš Lajovic
Soloists: Branimir Slokar, trombone
Zora Slokar, horn
12 March 2007 at 20.00 h
Conductor: En Shao
Soloists: Hrachya Avanesyan, violin
Karmen Pečar, cello
Dinara Nadzhafova, piano
Tine Helseth, trumpet
Concert by award-winners of the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth (EMCY)
In association with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
5 April 2007 at 20.00 h
Megaron Chamber Choir
Mixed Chamber Choir of the Episcopal Classical Grammar School
Conductor: Brian Wright
Soloists: David Finckel, cello
Sabina Cvilak, soprano
31 May 2007 at 20.00 h
Conductor: Rene Gulikers
Soloist: Urška Žižek Plavec, soprano
21 June 2007, at 20.00 h
Conductor: En Shao
Soloists: Warren Mok, tenor
Mirjam Kalin, mezzo-soprano
Autumn subscription 18 – 22 September 2006.
17 December 2006 at 18.00 h
Christmas Concert
Guests: New Swing Quartet and Deborah Woodson
Gallus Hall
Chamber Music
Silver Season
SP Hall, Gallus Hall
5 October 2006 ob 19.30 h
Ainhoa Arteta, soprano
Roger Vignoles, piano
In cooperation with the Embassy of Spain
11 October 2006 at 19.30 h
ArtisString Quartet
In cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum
14 November 2006 at 19.30 h
Severin von Eckardstein, piano
7 December 2006 at 19.30 h
Tartini String Quartet
Claudio Bohórquez, cello
20 February 2007 at 19.30 h
David Geringas, cello
Tatjana Geringas, piano
13 March 2007 at 19.30 h
Jürgen Essl,organ
3 April 2007 at 19.30 h
Fazil Say, piano
19 April 2007 at 19.30 h
KroumataPercussion Ensemble
16 May 2007 at 19.30 h
Europa Galante
Artistic director:Fabio Biondi,violin
In cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute.
Autumn subscription 28 August – 23 September 2006.
Subscription booklets are available at the CD Information Centre.
Chamber Music
22 – 28 January 2007
Music Odyssey
Chamber Music Festival
Under the auspices of Martha Argerich, Lugano Festival and Cankarjev dom
Performers:
Nicholas Angelich, piano
Karin Lechner, piano
Polina Leschenko, piano
Aleksandar Madžar, piano
Jura Margulis, piano
Sergio Tiempo, piano
Mauricio Vallina, piano
Geza Hosszu-Legocky, violin
Alissa Margulis, violin
Priya Mitchell, violin
Grigory Alumyan, cello
Christian Poltera, cello
Kaori Yamagami, cello
Lyda Chen, viola
Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, viola
Mate Bekavac, clarinet
Zora Slokar, bassoon
Slovenian Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra
Tartini String Quartet
The intensity of their concert schedules and rigid system of official musical life often alienate top-level musicians from the essence of musical creativity. As a tribute to that primordial impulse which, throughout the past centuries, has established chamber music as an emotionally intimate and intellectually articulated musical style, several prominent musicians have in recent years created their own music havens in which music is played in a circle of friends. One of these musicians is Martha Argerich, one of the few piano icons of our time, whose superior musical talent, in combination with her creative intellect and charismatic personality, has granted her a legendary status of long standing. She stopped giving recitals long ago, now giving priority to group renditions with artists of similar artistic taste and world views. Her charisma, coupled by the outstanding interpretations of her circle of musicians, has given the incentive for quite a few festivals: Lugano, Bepu in Japan and Buenos Aires. The so-called “Argerich Club” embraces internationally established musicians who have highlighted her career – Gidon Kremer, Misha Mayski, Nicholas Angelich, Ivry Gitlis, Lilya Zilberstein and Alexander Rabinovich, to name but a few, as well as young and talented artists in whom she has found a kindred affinity for music and humans.
Ljubljana will host a group of Argerich’s protégés who shall be joined by a number of first-rate Slovenian instrumentalists. Devised as a chamber music week, the festival will feature various instrumental combinations and composition styles.
Slovenian Philharmonic Hall
Youth to Youth
Kosovel Hall, SP Small Hall, the FranciscanChurch of Annunciation
10 October 2006 at 19.30 h
An Evening with Young Composers
Marjan Peternel
Nejc Bečan
Nana Forte
7 November 2006 ob 19.30 h
Bernardo Brizani, cello
Sara Sajko, piano
5 December 2006 at 19.30 h
Vocal recital
Zinovia Maria Zafeiriadou, soprano
Potočnik Janko, baritone
16 January 2007 at 19.30 h
Umek Blaž, trombone
Academy of Music Wind Quintet
13 February 2007 at 19.30 h
Tina Gojkič, horn
Milan Nikolič, bassoon
13 March 2007 at 19.30 h
Jana Pavli, oboe
Anja Gaberc, harp
17 April 2007 at 20.00 h
Concert of the TEMSIG award-winners
Angela Svoljšak, soprano
Kanalec Marko, organ
In association with the Jeunesses musicalesLjubljana.
Jazz
6 October 2006 at 20.00 h
Big Band RTV Slovenija
Conductor: Michael Abene
Guest: Dennis Mackrel, drums
Linhart Hall
23 October 2006 at 20.15 h
Cankarjev Jazz '06 Subscription and Non-subscription Series
Wibutee
Håkon Kornstad, saxophone, flute, electronics; Rune »Sternklang« Brøndbo, electronics, keyboards; Wetle Holte, drums, electronics; Tor Egil Kreken, bass, guitar, electronics; Anders Aseboe, sound; Kyrre Heldal Karlsen, light
An original blend of electronics and organ jazz has won Wibutee the admiration of audiences and critics alike; Playmachine has catapulted this group to the world peak of electronic jazz.
“One of the most impressive of Oslo's current creative wave, and certainly the boldest ‘new conception of jazz’ to come out on Jazzland so far.”The Wire
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Linhart Hall
9. November 2006 at 20.15 h
Cankarjev Jazz '06 Subscription and Non-subscription Series
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet
Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet; Woody Aplanalp, piano; John Lindberg, double bass; Famoudou Don Moye, drums
“Smith has been working at his highest level since the mid 70's. This quartet – with its combination of maturity, craftsmanship, and sense of adventure – is the perfect band to realize Smith's deepening vision.” (Ed Hazell, Boston Globe)
CD Club
2 December 2006 at 20.15 h
Cankarjev Jazz '06 Subscription and Non-subscription Series
Barry Guy New Orchestra
Guy/Gustafsson/Strid
Barry Guy, director, double bass; Agusti Fernandez, piano; Per Johansson, saxophone; Mats Gustafsson, saxophone; Hans Koch, clarinet and saxophone; Johannes Bauer, trumpet; Herb Robertson, trumpet; Per Ǻke Holmlander, tuba; Paul Lytton, drums; Raymond Strid, drums
An extraordinary double bass player, improviser and composer for small formations and orchestras, Barry Guy is one of the key figures of contemporary jazz. The New Orchestra, established in 2000, released two albums and has been enrapturing audiences at various festivals.
“In the Barry Guy New Orchestra, an archipelago of combos are plotted in advance and transformed into a brilliant kind of democratic art.”(Greg Buium, Vancouver, liner notes for Oort-Enropy)
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Linhart Hall and CD Club
27 – 30 June 2007
48thLjubljana Jazz Festival
Four evenings with celebrated figures of world and Slovenian jazz
Križanke open-air theatre and Cankarjev dom
Music of the World
16 October at 20.15 h
Music of the World ’06 Subscription and Non-subscription Series
The Last Nomads of Rajasthan
India
An original creation; artistic director: Alain Weber; 30 performing artists, among others the ensemble Divana – Musicians and Poets of Rajasthan: Gazi Khan Barna, leader and kartâl; Feiruz Khan Manghaniyar, dholak; Ghewar Khan Manghaniyar, kamanchiya; Mehardeen Khan Langa, satara, sarangui, morchang