Company

Singer

Stjepan Franetović

Ero the Joker

Miljenko Đuran

Ivica Trubić

Marko

Siniša Štork

Ivica Čikeš

Dubravka Šeparović Mušović

Doma

Sofia Ameli Gojić

Cecilija Car

Tamara Franetović Felbinger

Đula

Valentina Fijačko

Kristina Anđelka Đopar

Davor Radić

Sima

Ljubomir Puškarić

Ana Zebić Kostel

Čobanče

Marija Lešaja

Silent

Mario Bokun

Momče

Neven Mrzlečki

Zagreb

Croatia

HNK Zagreb

Niksa Bareza

Josip Šego

Conductor

Stage director

Krešimir Dolenčić

Set designer

Dalibor Laginja

Costume designer

Inga Kostinčer

Choreographer

Margareta Froman

Chorus master

Ivan Josip Skender

Translator

Tijana Gojić

Vatroslav Krčelić

Luka Vukšić

Dženisa Pecotić

Choir of the Croatian National Theater Opera In Zagreb

ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR OF THE CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATER OPERA IN ZAGREB

Aleksandra Ćorluka

Character/Vocal

Zrinka Petrušanec

Ioan Barbu

Petar Vujačić

Željko Nosić

Vlatka Peljhan

Mojca Ramuscak

Vjekoslav Babić

Helena Borović

Nina Cossetto

Silvana Čuljak

Ero the Joker Gotovac

Public

Opera

Approved

The most successful and most popular work of Jakov Gotovac's opera E ro from the Other World has long been considered one of the most successful Slavic comic operas, and since its premiere at the Zagreb HNK in 1935 it has hardly left the repertoire of all Croatian national houses. Numerous reviews of performances staged on foreign stages assess the Era as a trademark of Croatian opera, which transmits the songs and dances of its homeland to the world, with the dramatic word and music perfectly combined. Musical color, lush orchestration, lively rhythms, singing vocal lines that flow continuously are closely related to the exceptional libretto by Milan Begović full of witty and ingenious verses. The main character of the opera and the initiator of the plot is Mića, a young man from a rich rural family in the Dalmatian hinterland.
While trying to find a girl to marry, on his mother's advice, he portrays himself as poor, like Ero from the other world, because he wants to be sure that his beloved Đula sincerely loves him. Although he cheated on many, in the end everything is forgiven and he gets the girl he loves. The spectacular ballet finale of the opera, a furious tempo, is a kind of ode to the folk way of life, in which music imbued with the ethnos of the Dalmatian hinterland comes to the fore.

Ero the Joker by Jakov Gotovac, From HNK Zagreb (2022/2022), Directed by Krešimir Dolenčić,, Conductor Niksa Bareza, Josip Šego

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