The State Theatre in Košice definitively ended the jubilee 75th season on Saturday, June 27, 2020 by presenting special production Milada Horáková under auspices of President of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Čaputová. On day of the 70th anniversary of the judicial murder of the Czech lawyer and politician, who became a symbol of one of the biggest spurious political processes in the 1950s in the Communist Czechoslovakia, the State Theater in Košice has joined many commemorating events that were held to honor Milada Horáková, especially in the Czech Republic. Many guests of honor, Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic Natália Milanová among them, were watching the emotional evening on the Small scene of the State Theater in Košice.
On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, theater holiday start in the daily cashier of the State Theater in Košice as well. It will open again on Monday, August 24, 2020 during its usual opening hours. During the holiday, you can buy or book tickets for performances of the State Theater in Košice for its new season 2020/2021 via specialized portal navstevnik.sk. Choose from our program until the end of the calendar year the one performance for you and plan a beautiful theater evening.
The State Theater in Košice will start its new season on Thursday, September 1, 2020 with a ballet production Anne Frank’s Diary on the Small scene of the State Theater in Košice, followed by a drama cabaret At the Hitler’s: Stories from the Kitchen on Tuesday, September 8, 2020 and a day later, September 9, 2020, the Historic building of the State Theater in Košice will present a performance of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. These three performances and prepared gala concert will be a part of the Week of events Respect to the Heroes, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Four premiere titles are in the dramaturgy plan of the State Theater in Košice for the first half of the season. All of them were supposed to premiere in the ending season 2019/2021 but due to the corona crisis, their introduction was transferred to the new season 2020/2021.
Professional Slovak theater is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its establishment this year. On this occasion, the drama department has already ended preparations of an original Slovak play called Borodáč or Three sisters by Karol Horák, Michal Ditte and Michal Baláž. It was already performed in its internal premiere for the theater employees on Tuesday, June 30, its world premiere will be on Friday, September 25, 2020 in the Historical building of the State Theater in Košice. Directed by Júlia Rázusová on untraditional, multi-stage scene by Markéta Plachá, the actors will take the audience back in time a few decades to times when one of the founders of the Slovak professional theater and founder of the State Theater in Košice Janko Borodáč directed Chekhov’s Three sisters in Košice.
The second fall premiere will be the author ballet production by director and choreographer Ondrej Šoth Rudolf Nurejev on Friday, October 23, 2020 in the Historical building of the State Theater in Košice, which will bring a biographic story of an artist who changed the world of dance. It will also be a story about non-freedom and that the freedom needs to be fought for, even despite sacrifices. Worldwide-known Vladimir Malakhov should portray the main character, who is considered one of the best dancers of his generation in the world ballet. The European dance review has even called him “a dancer of the century”.
On the Small scene of the State Theater in Košice, the first premiere of the season 2020/2021 will be a production of current German dramatist Roland Schimmelpfennig called The Black Water. The drama department will present it on Friday, November 13, 2020, directed by debutant Braňo Mazúch. The play is a story of Frank and Leyla who believed for a moment that they come from the same world, from the same society. Yes, they lived in the same society but that society had two faces and now, after twenty years, it has even more of those faces. In this play, the author is making his dream about a summer night, where all social, cultural and religious differences are taken away by water, the Black Water, come true.
On November 27, 2020 premiere of the opera Werther by composer Jules Massenet, inspired by a cult book by German poet J. W. Goethe, held in the Historical building of the State Theater in Košice, will acquire the title of belonging to Košice. Werther will be a return of director Linda Keprtová to Košice, Chief Conductor Vinicius Kattah will be responsible for the music rehearsal. Massenet wrote the opera on 1880s but the Parisian opera rejected its first version for its serious topic. The composer postponed it for some time and then, after he reviewed it, it premiered in Vienna in 1892. Massenet’s composition style attracts most of all for its rich melodicism and colorful instrumentality.
