page_title: Qëndrim Rijani
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Qëndrim Rijani / Career
caption_attribution_description: Shqip: Qëndrim Rijani në prova me operën Skënderbeu në Teatrin Kombëtar të Operës dhe Baletit të Republikës së Maqedonisë së Veriut
context_page_description: Qëndrim Rijani is an Albanian director of theatre, film and opera. He has directed many plays, Albanian and foreign, that were performed in many different countries in Europe and that have been honored with many awards in various festivals. His plays are characterised by his direct and rough style. He is the director of the first Albanian opera in North Macedonia.
context_section_description: He brought his first play on stage independently (without and artistic supervisor) in the third year of his university studies. He has directed many successful plays, Albanian and foreign, that were produced in Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo, plays which also have been performed in theatrical festivals in many European countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Russia, Switzerland and Turkey. His career took off around 2014–2015 with the plays “Doktor Shuster” and “Gjymtimi”, which were very successful and won a considerable amount of awards considering the young age of the director and gave a boost to his artistic life. In 2018, Qëndrim Rijani was selected të be part of the jury in the Nationwide Theatrical Festival in Tirana. In 2019, Qëndrim Rijani brought to his audience the play “Xhelatët” and opera “Skënderbeu”. Two works of in higher cultural category, each having required two years of work to prepare. His now the in-house director in the Albanian Theater in Skopje, outer professor in the Arts University in Tirana where he teaches Acting Mastery and outer professor  in the University of Tetovo where he teaches Theatre Directing.
  To this day, he has directed 15 plays in professional national and city theatres:
  “Ne vijmë për Ajër”(Scott O. Moore)
  “Kapitulli i Dytë”(Neil Simon)
  “Gjymtimi” (Martin Mcdonagh)
  “Doktor Shuster”(Dušan Kovačević)
  “Art” (Yasmina Reza)
  “Gënjeshtër Pas Gënjeshtre” (Anthony Neilson)
  “Ushtria e Ui Tomasit” (Martin Mcdonagh)
  “Shtëpia e Bernarda Albës” (Federico Garcia Lorca)
  “Darka e Thërrimeve” (Refet Abazi)
  “39 Hapat” (Alfred Hitchcock)
  “Gratë” (Robert Thomas)
  “Roberto Xuko” (Bernard-Marie Koltès)
  “Në Det” (Sławomir Mrożek)
  "Jashtë Bie Borë" (Vincenzo Salemme)
  "Xhelatët" (Martin McDonagh)
  Besides these plays, he has also directed a documentary titled "Kokën Mbrapa" and an opera named “Skënderbeu”.
caption: Qëndrim Rijani during a rehearsal of the opera Skënderbeu in the National Theatre of Opera and Balet of the Republic of North Macedonia
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