Jakov Gotovac STANAC

STANAC

Creatives

Conductors

Ivo Lipanović, Josip Šego

Director

Hrvoje Korbar

Set designer

Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin

Costume designer

Ana Fucijaš

Light designer

Vesna Kolarec

Choreographer

Petra Hrašćanec

Chorus master

Luka Vukšić

Assistant director

Kristina Grubiša

Assistant set designer

Andrea Lipej

Assistant costume designer

Ana Trišler

Izrada kostimske rekvizite

Manuela Brcko

Ensemble of the performance

Stanac

Ozren Bilušić, Berislav Puškarić

Đivo

Domagoj Dorotić, Roko Radovan

Danica

Marija Kuhar Šoša, Josipa Bilić, Maja Sremec (studijski)

Vlaho

Mario Bokun, Damir Klačar

Miho

Marin Čargo, Josip Galić

The Goat

Maruška Aras

Dancers

Matej Đurđević, Roko Farkaš, Eva Kocić, Maja Petani, Dora Sarikaya, Ante Vukov

Orchestra and Chorus of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

Stage managers

Aleksandra Ćorluka, Zrinka Petrušanec

Prompter

Marija Dražančić

Concert master / mistress

Mojca Ramušćak, Vlatka Peljhan

Artistic leader of the Opera Studio

Darijan Ivezić

Artistic leader of the Répétiteurs

Nina Cossetto

Répétiteurs

Helena Borović, Hui Won Lee

One of the greatest Croatian opera composer Jakov Gotovac at the end of the 1950s composed a one-act opera Stanac after the comedy Novela od Stanca by Držić, collaborating with the librettist Vojmil Rabadan. The work that Gotovac himself categorised as an opera scherzo follows the plot of a Dubrovnik Renaissance comedy written in 1550 that Držić placed during the carnival, a time when anything is possible. Created after the Italian Renaissance stage masquerades, Držić's pastoral is coloured with the local nuances and the leading character is peasant Stanac. The naive old man believes he will regain his youth and is willing to pay good money to the carnival masks. the prose work, interwoven with pastoral elements and farce, with dances of the fairies and folklore that portrays an atmosphere of a carnival night in Dubrovnik, was entirely transferred by the authors into a music-stage work. This is a chamber opera that ends with the carnival masks apologising to Stanac for the prank and awarding him nicely.

The opera had its world opening night in 1959 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb and then it was rerun together with another one-act opera Dalmaro in the same evening titled Adriatic duology. With this premiere conducted by Ivo Lipanović and directed by Hrvoje Korbar, the Zagreb Opera continues with the presentation of the best works of Croatian opera literature with which it enriches its repertoire.

Opera