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Gala: Vanemuise ballett 70
Vanemuise teater avab oma 140. hooaja rahvusvahelise balletigalaga, tähistades ühtlasi oma balletitrupi 70. sünnipäeva. Sissepääs kõigile tasuta! 
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A ballet in two acts. Belgian choreographer-producer Hugo Fanari uses the most poetic play by Shakespeare in order to mix together classic and modern dance.
Dance Marathon
An exhausting dance marathon that lasts for days - the winner gets a sum of money that will help to pay the rent or buy a ticket to a better life?
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.
Nixon
Choreocraphic-political tragedy.
Peer Gynt
A ballet in two acts, based on Henrik Ibsen's dramatic play, for the music of Edvard Grieg and others.
Peter Pan
A dance performance for the whole family. This story based on the beloved fantasy by J. M. Barrie is for the first time staged in the language of dance in Estonia, offering enchantment for the whole family. Who of us has not dreamt of staying young forever?
Sigmund & Freud
Sasha Pepelyaev's comic dance performance for the music of W. A. Mozart and J. Strauss the Younger.
Sleeping Beauty
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
Ballet in one act. The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. |
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A Play About Money
The debut play by the member of the younger generation of Russian journalists, Viktoria Nikiforova, gives an honest and merciless incision into the inner cosmos of a modern (large) city inhabitant.
Adolf
One-man play. As the title hints Adolf Hitler himself will appear before the audience in this play. However, one should definitely not look for historic authenticity here.
An Empty Beach
The short story An Empty Beach (published in 1972) is one of the most outstanding accomplishments of the first creative period of an Estonian literature and theatre classic ? it is a masterpiece of Estonian modernism.
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.
Collected Stories
A story with unexpected, tense twists about the friendship of two women dedicated to literature, surfaces intriguing questions about creative competition, the relationship between the student and the teacher and the relations between literature and life.
Everything in the Garden
What is the price you would be willing to pay for a good life? A story about the surprising solutions of a housewife struggling to pay the out-of-her-depth bills for a posh life in a good neighbourhood.
Faith Healer
The play by the Irish contemporary literary classic consists of four monologues: faith healer travelling through villages, his wife and his manager tell us about the events with pivotal significance. The events are often recurrent, the manner the storytellers remember and narrate them is different.
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.
Humble Boy
A passionate story in two acts. Thirty-five year old Cambridge astrophysicist, Felix Humble, has returned home for his father's funeral. Now he must put to one side his search for a unified field theory, and confront the emotional universe he has been running away from all of his life.
In the Presence of a Clown
A play written in 1993 by a film and theatre classic living in Sweden (the film version produced by the author in 1997) belongs to a family trilogy known to the Estonian reader from the publication Loomingu Raamatukogu. This time one period in the life of the uncle of Ingmar Bergman ? Carl ? is under closer inspection. Uncle Carl also appears as a secondary character in other autobiographical works by the author.
Jumpers
Various issues concerning morale and religion are being discussed in the home of a professor of ethics and his wife, a musical actress. A space ship returning from the Moon, inspector Bones and eight jumpers also appear in the scenes.
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.
Koidula's Blood
Fantastic fragmentarium. A high-spirited fantasy about Estonian cultural history - the characters being the many great figures of the past.
Lotte's Trip to the South
This friendly and affectionate dog, Lotte, takes a trip to the south with her father-inventor Oskar and Klaus the wanderer to take the Pipo the chick, who could not keep up with his flock, to the South.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
This is the dramatisation of the most notable novel for many generations written by a living Columbian classic, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Marquez.
Poor Beast In The Rain
The play tries to find an answer to the following question - which is better - whether the courage to make changes in one's life and move on or to look for answers from the past.
Quevedo or Love and Ashes
"Quevedo" is the only play not staged by the writer and the literary scientist, academician Jaan Undusk, the text that shared the 1st place in the 2003 play writing contest. Undusk is great in "growing some flesh on the bones" of historic figures and to shape them into characters with a deep inner being and complex psychology towards who we feel passionate love as well as detest and hatred, cutting irony as well as playful, poetic art of work.
Romeo and Juliet
A romantic tragedy. This is a majestic love story inspired by Shakespeare that at first glance seems somewhat unexpected and impermissible. But... despite all that it is a story about immortal love that overcomes all boundaries and defies destiny to become a whole in death as well ? which this time is in a jellied meat pot.
Sleeping Around
The British playwright who is becoming a new success on the Estonian stages, Mark Ravenhill, gathered three colleagues in 1998 and in the form of a workshop these four people prepared a 12-scene play which is set in a town in England during a summer weekend.
Stars in the Morning Sky
In the centre of the play there are 5 women of different ages of whom four earn a living by selling their bodies. As the time for holding the Olympic Games is approaching such element is sent 100 kilometres away from the capital city.
Tales From The Vienna Woods
"Nothing creates the feeling of infinity better than stupidity," has the author written as the motto of his play.
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 Cat That Walked by Himself
Many stories about animals have become especially well-known from the works of the British literary classic, Kipling. The story about the cat that walked by himself is one of the most well-known of these.
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.
The Crucible
A drama in three acts. Love, passion, hate, fanaticism, truth, lies - all intertwined in a great and a powerful drama. Arthur Miller's play tells a true story that happened at the end of 17th century in Massachusetts, in a village called Salem.
The End of Potter
A mysterious and expressive story for those who love psychodrama and absurdity.´This is a mystical-realistic chamber drama written in 1971 the script of which disappeared without a trace for 30 years.
The Gift of the Gorgon
Drama in three acts. The creation of the contemporary British playwright Peter Shaffer is known to Estonian theatre audience through productions "Equus", "Amadeus" and "Black Comedy/White Lies". "The Gift of the Gorgon" continues the investigation of Shaffer?s favourite theme: what is genius?
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Four children - Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy - are sent to the countryside during the war - to Professor Kirke's estate - to hide from the air raids. Playing hide-and-seek one evening Lucy hides in the wardrobe and discovers that she has landed in a different world - in Narnia.
With No Greater Sadness
This is a story about a family which is brought to the audience through the eyes of the children Aki and Liisa in the course of their growing up.
Wuthering Heights
One of the unique masterpieces among the 19th century English literary classics - Wuthering Heights - will be staged in Estonia for the first time. This is a passionate and fateful love story between the demonic Heathcliff and beautiful Catherine Earnshaw which influences the destiny of two squire families over many generations. |
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Beautiful Bodies
Six girlfriends gather to an apartment located in the heart of a city to celebrate that one of their girlfriends could give birth any time now. Six very different women: an unmarried pregnant musician, a journalist who has just fallen in
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.
Murder By Misadventure
Is it possible to commit a perfect murder? Who could answer this question better than a good crime writer?
Possible meeting
Two world famous compousers, born at the same year, Händel and Bach, who never met in reality, will meet according to playwriter's wish on a gala dinner, which was organized by Händel.
The Dinner Party
The new play by the most famous living American comedy writer is set in a luxury restaurant in Paris. Three couples who used to be married meet at a dinner and none of them knows who invited them to have dinner.
The Imaginary Invalid
Maailma suurima komödiograafi Molière´i ühe tuntuima teose peategelane on võtnud pähe, et ta põeb korraga kõiki maailma tõbesid.
The Libertine
A philosophical comedy in two acts. One crazy day in the life of the famous French philosopher Denis Diderot.
Theatre Paradise
A zealous and magnificent fantasy about the hundred-year old history of the Estonian professional theatre in the typical style of Kivirähk. |
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Wagneri gala
Vanemuise sümfooniaorkestri hooaja lõppkontserdil Jõhvis, Tartus ja Tallinnas kõlab Wagneri võimas muusika.
Goodbye 2007
Meeleolukas aastalõpupidu, kus publikule pakutakse võimalust vaadata esmalt komöödiat "Teatriparadiis" ning pärast seda lõbusalt jalga keerutada.
Goodbye 2008
Meeleolukas aastalõpupidu koos teatri ja vahuveiniga. Publikule pakutakse võimalust vaadata esmalt 100. ja ühtlasi viimast korda etenduvat draamat "Mesimees" ning pärast seda lõbusalt jalga keerutada.
Suve viimne roos
Salongiõhtu Vanemuise väikese maja ovaalsaalis, kus vaheldumisi kõlab luule ja muusika.
Euroopa ooperipäeva gala
Euroopa ooperipäeva galal astuvad Vanemuises lavale ooperisolistid Venemaalt, Lätist, Leedust ja Eestist.
Muusikalikontsert Memory 2009
Vanemuine annab Tallinnas, Tartus, Pärnus ja Jõhvis kokku kaheksa kontserti, kus kõlavad hitid paljudest armastatud muusikalidest.
Terrassikontsert
Vanemuise teater alustab uut hooaega traditsioonilise tasuta terrassikontserdiga, kus teatri sümfooniaorkester esitab Mozarti ja Davidi heliteoseid.
Rahvusvahelise tantsupäeva balletigala
Vanemuise teater tähistab Tartus ja Jõhvis rahvusvahelist tantsupäeva balletigalaga, millel esinevad mitmed maailmas kõrgelt hinnatud balletiartistid.
Johann Straussi gala
Vanemuise sümfooniaorkestri ja Vanemuise kontserdimaja ühisel hooaja lõppkontserdil kõlab Johann Straussi helilooming.
Talvebarokk
Kammerkontsert Vanemuise väikese maja ovaalsaalis, kus kõlavad Bachi, Telemanni ja Besozzi heliteosed.
Vanemuise sümfooniaorkestri hooaja lõppkontsert
Vanemuise teatri sümfooniaorkester lõpetab hooaja kontserdiga, kus kõlab Lepo Sumera ja Urmas Sisaski looming.
Teatribändide festival 2011
Eesti teatribändide omavaheline mõõduvõtt
Ball at the Vanemuine
Üheaegselt Vanemuise teatris ja kontserdimajas toimuv suurejooneline aastalõpuball.
Ball at the Vanemuine
Üheaegselt Vanemuise teatris ja kontserdimajas toimuv suurejooneline aastalõpuball.
Ballet Gala
Dedicated to the International Dance Day.
Ballet Gala 2011
Dedicated to the International Dance Day.
Broadway gala
The greatest musicals concert this summer in Estonia. Unforgettable hits from Broadway musicals throughout the times.
Goodbye 2010
Traditional New Year's Eve Party.
Goodbye2009
Traditional New Year's Eve Party.
Memory 2008 Musical Concert
The Vanemuine will give altogether eight concerts in Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu and Jõhvi during which the music from many beloved musicals will be heard.
MEMORY 2012
Traditional musical concert.
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 2010
Vanemuise teater annab Tartus, Pärnus, Jõhvis ja Tallinnas kokku viis traditsioonilist muusikalikontserti, mis seekord on pühendatud eesti heliloojatele ja nende armastatud loomingule.
Musical Concert Memory 2011
Traditional musical concert.
Opera gala 2009
Vanemuise teatri ooperigala, kus kõlavad Verdi, Puccini, Mozarti, Bizet', Mascagni ja Leoncavallo heliteosed.
Opera Gala Endel Nõgene 60
Operigalal, mida dirigeerib juubilar Endel Nõgene, kõlavad Verdi, Puccini, Bizet?, Rahmaninovi, Offenbachi, Nicolai, Dvo?áki, Giordano ja Bellini heliteosed.
Stephen Hansen: The Sound of Musicals
Beloved hits from musicals and operas arranged for tenor, cello and piano.
Summer Concert
Sümfooniaorkestri tasuta kontsert Kassitoome orus.
Thank You For The Music
Tribute to ABBA
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
A musicals? concert dedicated to the 60th jubilee of the King of Musicals ? Andrew Lloyd Webber ? as a part of a Scandinavian concert tour.
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Alice in Wonderland
A dance fantasy in two acts. Colourful children play with humorous characters and exciting animations based on the imaginative story of the English literary classic Lewis Carroll.
Big, Scary Wolf (Iso Paha Susi)
The best Finnish children's play in 2003 in which the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf and seven kids and among them other animal tales are mixed together. |
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Kevade
Kollase Kassi Suvekooli lõpulavastus
Blood Brothers
This London hit musical tells a story of twins who are separated after birth and live in different families - rich and poor - but nevertheless become friends and fall in love with the same girl?
Cats
Since its opening in London in 1981, Cats has been presented in over twenty countries and in about two hundred and fifty cities, including such diverse destinations as Buenos Aires, Seoul, Helsinki and Singapore.
Chess
The title match of the World Chess Championship is held in Merano where the Russian Anatoli Sergejevsky and the American Frederick Trumper fight for the title.
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.
Queen - The Doors of Time
Rock-ballet. The music by Queen and Freddy Mercury will be performed by Tony Vincent who is one of the brightest young Broadway stars.
Ruja
A rock opera in two acts. In August 2008 the Vanemuine will stage an original rock opera based on the story and music of the legendary rock group Ruja.
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 Snow Queen
A musical production for children based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. |
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Acis and Galatea
The nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis love each other. The young lovers are counselled by the shepherd Damon. A very jealous cyclops, Polyphemus, has also become attached to Galatea and promises to kill Acis if the latter does not give up Galatea.
La Traviata
The recurrent themes of Verdi's most renowned opera are love's earthly and celestial polarity, love and death, sin and redemption.
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.
The Magic Flute
An opera in two acts. The plot of the opera is based on the fight of the two worlds - one is that of the threatening and cruel Queen of the Night and the other of the sunny humanist, wise priest Sarastro.
The Marriage Contract
An English merchant, Tobias Mill, receives a letter from a rich Canadian merchant, Slook, in which the latter notifies him of his intent to find a wife from Europe and describes what his future wife should be like as regards her looks and nature.
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.
The Tales of Hoffmann
Fantastic opera in two acts. Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann is alongside Bizet's Carmen one of the most popular and most often performed and most loved French operas.
Tosca
An opera in three acts. The central character in the opera is the ruthless power-seeking Baron Scarpia. In parallel one sees the unwinding of the passionate and tragic love story of the artist Mario Cavaradossi and singer Floria Tosca. |
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Ball at the Savoy
An operetta in three acts. This story takes us to the first half of the 20th century France and describes the events in the lives of the married couple Aristide and Madeleine after their return from their honeymoon.
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.
The Bat
Gabriel von Eisenstein is awaiting a prison sentence. His friend, Doctor Falke, suggests that before going to jail they could go to the black-tie ball held by Prince Orlofsk. |
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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? |
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