Anica Lazin Nonveiller (

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: Аница Лазин Нонвеје; born 1957) is a

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journalist, writer and producer. She is the sister of a Parisian theatre director Miloš Lazin. In 1991 she was fired from a state-owned

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for broadcasting a Croatian war song during the

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. After receiving death threats in 1992 she took refuge in France and latter moved with her family to Canada. Since 1996 she published political articles, essays and ''Tisza'' an

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. She's the founder and director of the production house Aria that produces plays in

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that incorporates theatre, classical singing and political engagement.

Life

Anica Lazin was born in

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and raised in

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by a half-German mother, Rakila Blat, and a Serbian agronomist David Lazin. Under

Josip Broz Tito Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...

's regime, her father has spent two years in prison for political activism. She graduated in 1979 in classical singing and got a job as a musical director for

. She won two prizes for

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in 1985 on

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and in 1987 on the anti-

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Bulat Okudzhava Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (russian: link=no, Булат Шалвович Окуджава; ka, ბულატ ოკუჯავა; hy, Բուլատ Օկուջավա; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musici ...

, which was censored but gave her a large following in the Belgrade's

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. In 1991 Lazin broadcast a Croatian war song "E, moj druže beogradski" (Oh, my Belgrade Comrade) by

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and was suspended. After engaging in legal action and losing, she appeared on television, published articles in the oppositional newspaper, Borba, and joined the anti-war resistance in the early 1990s. In 1992, she was discovered to be on a "liquidation list" by an independent journalist and was given political asylum from French government. In December of that year she moved to Paris and Valognes with her mother and children and later with her husband to Montreal, Canada.

Lyrical protest art

From 1997 to 2008, she directed a musical production house Aria that promoted rigorous Eastern European educational methods and political debate. The company re-adapted 19th century Opera classics by borrowing from their original literary inspiration in form of theatre dialogue and superimposing it with current events. The work on

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's Carmen (2004) was revisited by Mérimée's original text. Verdi's La Traviatta (2005) was restructured by going back to

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(2007) was brought back to

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by Victor Hugo.

References

External links

At La Scene Musicale

At Fringe fest

At Journe internationale de la musique

Radio-Canada

Éditions Trois-Pistoles
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