Vita Mavrič is a
Slovene chansonnier.
Career
Vita Mavrič started her career at the
Ljubljana City Theatre
Ljubljana City Theatre (Mestno gledališče ljubljansko - MGL) is the second theatre building and company of Ljubljana after the Ljubljana branch of the Slovene National Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovene National Theatre.
Founded in 1949, Ljubljana City ...
in a 1987 musical, titled "In the Slovene Mountains" (originally in Serbo-Croatian "U slovenačkim gorama").
Based on the poetry of
Slovene poets, she recorded a solo concert, "Pesem je ženska" (A Song Is a Woman), and released her first album at the
National Slovene Television, that was followed by a 1991 solo concert in
Cankar Hall, based on poetry by
Janez Menart
Janez Menart () (29 September 1929 – 22 January 2004) was a Slovene poet, best known for his Intimist poetry. He translated a number of classic French and English poetry and drama works into Slovene, including Shakespeare' ...
,
Ervin Fritz,
Milan Jesih
Milan Jesih (born April 14, 1950) is a Slovene language, Slovene poet, playwright, and translator. He was the president of the Slovene Writers' Association between 2009 and 2011.
Jesih was born in Ljubljana in 1950. He studied comparative litera ...
, and others.
Interview
Dnevnik, 2. June 2012
In 1994, she founded Café Theatre which she has art-directed ever since. In 2000, she founded "La Vie en Rose", an international chanson festival.
Her 2012 "Mandeljni in rozine" included Jewish klezmer songs, based on translations by Klemen Jelinčič and the re-creation of poems by Milan Dekleva
Milan Dekleva (born 17 October 1946) is a Slovene poet, writer, playwright, composer and journalist.
Dekleva was born in Ljubljana in 1946. He graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana and
works as a journalist. He i ...
, songs from Rezija and Istria, and songs about the fate of some Romani people
The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sig ...
. It was premiered at Cankar Hall.
Works
* "Bikec Ferdinand" (Ferdinand the Bull), a musical for children, performed together with the Ljubljana Dance Theatre
* "Ne smejte se, umrl je klovn" (Don't Laugh, a Clown Died), a music-theatre project of Frane Milčinski's chansons that won her the Župančič Award,
* "Sneguljčica" (The Snow White), an opera composed by Bojan Adamič,
* 1995 "Arabella", a musical produced by Café Theatre,
* "Nekoč bili smo v maju" (Once We Were in May), a concert with music composed by Mojmir Sepe and performed by the symphonic orchestra, with theatre, film and a ballet performance, directed by Matjaž Pograjc, dedicated to her colleague Borut Lesjak,
* "Sem, kakršna sem" (I Am What I Am), her second CD,
* "Yearnings", her third CD with Bertolt Brecht's and Kurt Weill's chansons
References
Living people
Slovenian composers
Slovenian singer-songwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
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