Comedy-ballet of the greatest French comedist Molière and the great master of baroque music, the composer Lully, is one of the best works of that very peculiar genre. In this work, comic prose parts are accompanied by dance intermezzos and sung parts. The Bourgeois Gentleman is a work which speaks with a lot of humour about the frantic desire of a rich parvenu to achieve social success, convinced that money can buy everything from manners to friends and social status. However, there are many obstacles on this way towards social success and our parvenu will have a hard time discovering that everybody can be ridiculed and fooled.
This première is a joint project of the Drama, Opera and Ballet of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, featuring numerous artists from all three branches of our theatre.