# Madlenianum Opera and Theatre

Madlenianum Opera and Theatre is an opera house and theatre located in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia. It is the first privately owned opera and theater company both in Serbia and in Southeast Europe. It is located in Belgrade, Serbia, and was founded on 26 January 1999, by Madlena Zepter, wife of Philip Zepter, Serbian businessman. The name Madlenianum derives from Madlena Zepter's name.

## History

It is situated in the Old city core of Zemun, which is Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Great Importance of Serbia. The Theatre houses opera, ballet, concert programs, drama and musical repertoire.
Madlenianum was officially founded on 25 December 1997 by Gordan Dragović Černogorski opera and ballet director, and it is located in the building that previously housed the second stage of the National Theatre of Serbia. After seven years of work and five different stages of reconstruction, a completely refurbished, reconstructed and conceptually enriched edifice opened its doors to the public on 19 April 2005.

## Productions

As of February 2013, the following operas, musicals and plays outside of the standard repertoire were produced at the Madlenianum. Premieres marked with "*" are still in the repertory.
| Name | Author, Composer, Choreographer | Premiere | In repertory to date |
| Opera Il matrimonio segreto | Domenico Cimarosa | 1999 |
| Orpheus in the Underworld | Ballet by Krunislav Simić | 1999 |
| Opera The Rape of Lucretia | Benjamin Britten | 1999 |
| Opera Il signor Bruschino | Gioachino Rossini | 2000 |
| Opera Die Kluge | Carl Orff | 2000 |
| Opera The two widows | Bedřich Smetana | 2001 |
| Nijinsky - Golden bird | Ballet by Krunislav Simić | 2001 |
| Liederabend | Gustav Mahler, Ballet by Duška Sifnios and Vladimir Logunov | 2002 |
| Triptych | Ballet by Ramón Oller | 2004 |
| Tesla | Miloš Crnjanski | 2005 |
| Icy Firefly | Vladan Radoman | 2005 |
| Opera The tales of Hoffmann | Jacques Offenbach | 2005 |
| Don Quixote | Mikhail Bulgakov | 2005 |
| Prometheus bound | Aeschylus | 2006 |
| Wolfgang Amadé | Ballet by Renato Zanella | 2006 |
| Opera Così fan tutte | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 2006 |
| Quartet | Ronald Harwood | 2006 |
| Frida Kahlo | Sanja Domazet | 2006 | * |
| Burlesque on the Greek | Andrej Hing | 2007 |
| Musical Les Misérables | Claude-Michel Schönberg | 2007 |
| The Lady from Maxim's (La Dame de chez Maxim) | Georges Feydeau | 2008 |
| Opera The Diary of Anne Frank | Grigory Frid | 2008 |
| The bereaved family (Ožalošćena porodica) | Branislav Nušić | 2008 |
| The Scent of Rain in the Balkans (Miris kiše na Balkanu) | Gordana Kuić | 2009 |
| Cat on a hot tin roof | Tennessee Williams | 2009 |
| Opera The Mandrake (La Mandragola) | Ivan Jevtić | 2009 |
| Wait for me in heaven my love | Fernando Arrabal | 2010 |
| Opera Rita Opera Angélique | Gaetano Donizetti Jacques Ibert | 2010 |
| Indian summer | Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev | 2010 |
| Breakfast at Tiffany’s | Truman Capote | 2011 |
| Celebrating of love | Ballet by Aleksandar Ilić | 2011 |
| North fairy tale | Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Ballet by Staša Zurovac | 2011 |
| Greta Garbo’s secret (Tajna Grete Garbo) | Miro Gavran | 2012 |
| Two Serbian ballets Ballad of the stray moon Two Serbian ballets The vallet's broom | Dušan Radić, Ballet by Aleksandar Ilić Miloje Milojević, Ballet by Aleksandar Ilić | 2012 |
| Musical Rebecca | Michael Kunze, Sylvester Levay | 2012 |
| Opera for kids Kopriva, kopriva | Milan T Ilić | 2013 |
| Opera for kids The Magic Flute | W. A. Mozart | 2013 | * |
| Drama Pierrot Lunaire / Lenz | A. Schoenberg, G. Buchner | 2013 |

## Gallery

* Madlenianum enterier
* Madlenianum theatre hall
* Ballet Dictionary of the Khazars