#Uroš Krek

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Uroš Krek : Sonatina

Matej Šarc - oboe

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Seven Questions About Happiness

A theatre journey following the motifs of Maurice Maeterlinck’s Blue Bird Directed by Tomi Janežič Photo Jaka Varmuž

The creative process for the performance drew from Maeterlinck’s Blue Bird—a story of the archetypal journey of seeking happiness. After the première at the Moscow Art Theatre under direction of Konstantin Sergejevič Stanislavski (1908) and on Broadway (1910), the story saw a number of interpretations, radio and film adaptations, and a TV serial adaptation.The great success of the performance fostered Maurice Maeterlinck to write a children’s novel The Blue Bird for Children together with Georgette Leblanc. At the Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana (Ljubljana Puppet Theatre), the Blue Bird performance (1964) directed by Jože Pengov, was considered one of the pinnacles of the then marionette theatre. The painter France Mihelič created the artistic design of the performance, and the composer Uroš Krek wrote the music.

The creators of the performance Seven Questions About Happiness use the story describing the search for the blue bird to write their own story about family, memory, dreams, death, joy, love, future, repute, and sense.

Seven Questions About Happiness is a performance about theatre spaces. This time (again), the director and the set designer Branko Hojnik, who have worked together before in Russia and in Norway, paid particular attention to spaces as places of imagination.

Seven Questions About Happiness is a long theatre journey, a performance about a performance, a story about a story, and in some way a sequel to the creative process that started with the performance no title yet (Mladinsko Theatre, 2018). In fact, in recent years, Janežič has staged a number of unusually long performances in various countries, which aim to deconstruct theatre, highlight its miraculous nature, and put forward the community, which is part of the event.

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Uroš Krek (1922-2008)

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Uroš Krek : Espressivo -

Lara Šalamon, flute - Gaia Federica Caporiccio, piano

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SOFIA VOCAL ENSEMBLE, Uroš Krek - Škrinja orehova

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Uroš Krek (May 21, 1922 – May 3, 2008) Slovenian composer

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Uroš Krek: Espressivo - Lara Šalamon, flute - Gaia Federica Caporiccio, piano