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Casanova
Ballet in two acts. From time to time the fate of Casanova has excited the desire for beauty. That scandalous Venetian was not only an adventurer, fraud and a freethinker as he is usually portrayed, but also a poet, memoir writer, philosopher and musician. Emanating from that, David Sonnenbluck with its style as well as music has created a timeless ballet - it is baroque as well as contemporary at the same time.
Kreutzwald meets Dance
A dance performance for the audience over the age of 16.
Onegin
Ballet in two acts based on the verse-format novel of the same name by Russian literature classic Aleksandr Pushkin.
The Nutcracker
Ballet in two acts. Classical ballet with magnificent and spectacular decorations and delightful music. |
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A Behanding Spokane
Carmichael, a man of rough impression, has lost his left hand because of a misfortunate occasion in childhood and he has been spending all his following life searching for that missing part of his body.
Concert for a Dictator
Psychological thriller. The play of a British writer takes us back to 1946 Berlin, where an American mayor as an investigator of Nazi crimes accuses a world-renown composer Wilhelm Furtwängler in collaborationism.
Doomsday
Based on Mati Unt's various plays.
Elling (Elling og Kjell Bjarne)
A humorous and affectionate story of two men, who after spending many years in a care institution, are switching to the everyday life of ordinary people. And it seems scary as these two middle-aged men have never had to organise their lives before. Who does the cleaning, who does the shopping? How does one meet women?
Elusive Miracle
Drama in two acts. Very soon a hundred years will have passed from the birth (1912) of the school classic Vilde's "Elusive Miracle" (Tabamata ime). During this whole time the play has belonged to the absolute golden fund of Estonian stage classics and many noted Estonian directors and actors have measured their strength against that text. More than half a century has passed since the last "Elusive Miracle" at the Vanemuine (1952, directed by Epp Kaidu) - that is another reason why to try to look at that famous play with a new glance.
Harmony
Tragicomedy. In the third part of Mika Myllyaho's trilogy - "Panic", "Chaos", "Harmony" - men and women and work and love finally get together on stage.
Huntluts
"Huntluts" is the title of a book by Mati Unt where three plays on the Oskar Luts theme are published. The most spacious of them is "Tonight We Throw Luts" where the well-known Luts characters from "Spring", "Summer", "Autumn" as well as Luts himself come on stage. This play will be the basis of the Vanemuine new production.
Man's Best Friends
Rein Pakk: "My new authorial production "Man's Best Friends" asks: who is a man? And answers: man is a being, who has become aware of his existence. "
Peko
Epic ancient rock at Värska Singing Stage.
Purge
Drama in two acts. The novel "Purge" (Puhdistus) by Fofi Oksanen, a Finnish writer with Estonian roots, merited many awards and passionate polemic, also found lively resonance in Estonia. A story with a strongly dramatical tissue observes events from Estonia's near past (years 1936-1992).
Rain Man
Through the movie version (from 1988) that won four Oscars, where leading roles were played by Dustin Hoffmann and Tom Cruise, a story that went out to the whole world reached the theatre stages in 2008. In the London's first production another movie star - Josh Hartnett, successfully played one of the leading parts.
Rum and Vodka
Confession. Conor McPherson's first play "Rum and Vodka" is a young man's monologue about women, children, alcohol and choices. On stage, years-long despair, Ott Sepp, Rum and Vodka and life itself meet.
To Kill a Mockingbird...
Harper Lee's bestselling novel has been sold over 30 million copies. It is the only novel of the now 85-year-old American writer. She won Pulitzer prize for the novel in 1960 and it is still in the reprint top list even in the beginning on f the 21st century. The Vanemuine production doesn?t deal with the success of the novel and racism but the part of the novel that concerns humanity.
Uku Uusberg's authorian production
With Uku Uusberg, whose plays are born hand in hand with time, it would be difficult to say that his play is about problems of communication or about why the chicken crossed the road. And that is the magic of his plays. |
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Birthday Suite
A comedy in two acts. Silly and comical situations, colourful characters are the keyword in this play. It is healthy to laugh!
Calendar Girls
"Calendar Girls" is based on a true story, that first reached the audience as a successful feature film (2003) and a couple of years later as a theatre production.
Chaos
Tragicomedy in two acts. "Chaos" is an imaginary continuation to the production "Panic" by the Finnish dramaturge Mika Myllyaho that premiered successfully at the Vanemuine last season. What they have in common is when in the previous story three men, having recently entered mid-life, wrestled with panic then this time three ladies are drowning in the chaos of life.
Monsieur Amilcar
Satirical comedy in two acts. That witty French play is about a man who hasn't managed to form close relationships in his life and decides to hire a family and friends. According to his prescription a happy personal life is about to be built and his "hired close-ones" have to work very hard gain that.
Panic
The play is about three middle-aged men and the tensions that the contemporary society generates in the masculine gender. |
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Spanish Night
Concert-performance that offers fragments from the culture of flamenco, bull fighting and don Quijote. |
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Kessu and Tripp
Kessu is an ordinary somewhat short girl. Tripp is a clown with a red and white striped bobble hat and slippers with twisted toes and he lives in a big book on a circus picture.
Morten Viks on the Ship of Fools
Morten Viks is a student in the first class. His father is a captain who sails those far away oceans where the flying fish live.
Rhino Otto
Topper and his friend Viggo draw a rhino on the wall of Topper's room who is not about to fade away but becomes alive - he wants to eat and drink and creates a lot of confusion in the town.
The Imp
Children musical in two acts. Story about Iti and Kusti lost in the forest who run into the Woods Crone house. They are forced to do hard work there and take care of the small Imp. It is familiar to many Estonian children generations.
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Mary Poppins
Musical in two acts. Based on the book Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers and the Walt Disney movie of the same name (1964).
The Sound of Music
Musical in two acts. The movie shot in Hollywood with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the lead is loved all around the world. A little less known is the fact that the world famous musical is based on a true story. |
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Manon
Opera in three acts. Massenet's Manon is one of the most popular French operas of all times. It talks about the tragic love affair of Manon Lescaut and Le Chevalier des Grieux.
Mary Stuart
Opera in two acts. Queen Elizabeth I loves the Count of Leicester but suspects that he is in love with Mary, Queen of Scotts. The rivalry between the two women in politics and love cannot end happily.
The Fairy-Queen
Opera in two acts. The premiere of the opera based on William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" took place in London in 1692. "Fairy Queen" is a so-called semi-opera which means that Purcell has not put Shakespeare's comedy into music but has written musical numbers for singers and dancers in between the original text.
The Troubadour (Il Trovatore)
Opera in four acts. Poisoning and fratricide, a gypsy camp and a nun's ordination, jealousy, revengefulness and a stake on one hand, and a drama of ordinary human passions on the other hand - this taken all together is the Troubadour.
Werther
Opera in two acts. |
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The Merry Widow
Operetta in three acts. he family of Count Danilo will not allow him to ask for the hand of a simple girl called Hanna in marriage. Hanna then marries a wealthy banker who dies on their wedding night. |
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Help! Opera!?
The opera lesson for the younger and medium age group. Imagine that you find yourself at a completely unusual lesson - help, not an opera lesson, though? Exactly that, an opera lesson! Opera is in fact very fascinating! This time the teachers are opera singers themselves.
Help! Opera!? II
Opera lesson. In this opera lesson you will hear the best pieces of Estonian opera, operetta and musical productions through all times.
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