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Casanova
Ballet in one act. 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. 
Giselle
Ballet in two acts. This is a story of unreturned love, of madness, death and revenge. A beautiful country girl, Giselle, falls in love with Count Albert, who breaks her heart.
Mowgli
Dance production. After a very long time "Mowgli" is again brought on stage, and this time it will be completely original - from inside out. "Mowgli" is a story about a teenage boy who is searching for his place and himself in the big human jungle.
Sleeping Beauty
A ballet in two acts. Pär Isberg makes the time and space move in a completely unique way: the music is the same, the story is basically the same, even the dance technique is the same, but the result is exceptionally exciting.
Spring
Ballet in one act. Based on Oskar Luts' novel Spring. With this production we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Vanemuine ballet.
The Afternoon of Petrushka
Ballet in two acts. "Afternoon of a Faune" and "Petrushka", two of the most beautiful and inspired pieces of music ever written for dance.
The Old Man and The Sea
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Buried Child
The play by the renowned American playwright, Sam Shepard, merited the Pulitzer award in 1979. It is a grim glimpse at a Central-American family farm.
Don Juan
Don Juan is not a man, not a character with a hat and a sword from Spain long ago. Don Juan is a programme. A training programme that teaches how to love, who to love, how to be loved, how to be a successful lover and to love as efficiently as possible; what is sex with love and without love, and answers to many other important questions.
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?
How the King Wished to go to the Moon
"How the King Wished to go to the Moon" is a new story for children based on an old Persian fairy tale and inspired by the namesake play by Joachim Knauth. For those who have been children as well as for those who are children currently.
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.
King Richard The Third
Naturally, the story is about King Richard III who ruled England during the years 1452-1485. About the last York family king. The last king of England who perished at the battlefield.
Panic
The play is about three middle-aged men and the tensions that the contemporary society generates in the masculine gender.
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 Castle
The strange world of the literary classic Franz Kafka very rarely reaches the theatre stages. This time the plot of one of the most well-known novels of the writer, published posthumously (1926), becomes alive.
The City
One of the best known authors of the British contemporary drama, Martin Crimp, arrives in the Estonian theatre for the first time. His fresh comical-mysterious play (premiere in London in 2008) puts forth a lot of questions and mysteries.
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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!
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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.
Lotte and Bruno at the Music Lesson
Lotte and Bruno wish to become musicians. But which instrument is the most exciting one? Or is it more exciting to be a conductor?
Most Beautiful Moments of Your Life
Request concert in two parts. Sequel to the Kulno Süvalep songs' night "Most Beautiful Years of Your Life" that premiered in 1993 at the Vanemuine Small Building oval hall brings the Fraternity of the Most Beautiful Years before the audience once more.
Musical Concert Memory 2011
Traditional musical concert.
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Evita
Musical in two acts. The musical is about the life of Eva Peron, wife of the Argentine president Juan Peron as told by Che Guevara, another modern icon.
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Musical in two acts. "Kiss of the Spider Woman" was first brought on stage in Toronto in 1992, in London West End on the same year and in 1993 on Broadway. In 1993 at the Tony Award Ceremony "Kiss of the Spider Woman" was recognized as the best musical production, the play then won an award in seven categories all together.
Sugar
A musical in two acts. The plot of the musical Sugar is like in the best of soap operas - one never knows who is actually who and how the story ends.
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.
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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Madame Butterfly
Opera in two acts. Sad, beautiful and dramatic story of the love between a young Japanese woman, Chio-Chio-San (Butterfly), and an American marine, Pinkerton.
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 Marriage of Figaro
Opera in four acts. The opera's activities are a direct continuation to the play "The Barber of Seville" by Beaumarchais and also in relation to the namesake opera by Rossini. |
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Orpheus in the Underworld
Operetta in two acts. The piece written in 1858 is considered as the first classical full-length operetta. The plot is quite a disgraceful parody of an antique story and an acute satire of the past French social and political conditions. |
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