UNTRADITIONAL TIME = UNTRADITIONAL CONNECTIONS, a crown’s dramaturgy of drama, opera and ballet of the Košice State Theater The time we live requires openness, cooperation and new forms. A blend of opera, ballet and drama in a series of chamber and non-traditional evenings on the HB (historical building) stage of the Košice State Theater. Verdi with Shakespeare and Dumas, Wagner with Thomas Mann, Mahler’s music with letters by Alma and Gustav Mahler. Performed by domestic or guest actors and singers, as well as ballet soloists with the world-famous Vladimír Malach as guest. A person without art is not a person.

UNTRADITIONAL TIME = UNTRADITIONAL CONNECTIONS, a crown’s dramaturgy of drama, opera and ballet of the Košice State Theater The time we live requires openness, cooperation and new forms. A blend of opera, ballet and drama in a series of chamber and non-traditional evenings on the HB (historical building) stage of the Košice State Theater. Verdi with Shakespeare and Dumas, Wagner with Thomas Mann, Mahler’s music with letters by Alma and Gustav Mahler. Performed by domestic or guest actors and singers, as well as ballet soloists with the world-famous Vladimír Malach as guest. A person without art is not a person.

UNTRADITIONAL TIME = UNTRADITIONAL CONNECTIONS, a crown’s dramaturgy of drama, opera and ballet of the Košice State Theater The time we live requires openness, cooperation and new forms. A blend of opera, ballet and drama in a series of chamber and non-traditional evenings on the HB (historical building) stage of the Košice State Theater. Verdi with Shakespeare and Dumas, Wagner with Thomas Mann, Mahler’s music with letters by Alma and Gustav Mahler. Performed by domestic or guest actors and singers, as well as ballet soloists with the world-famous Vladimír Malach as guest. A person without art is not a person.

"You and we - we live in parallel worlds ... that's right, we live in parallel worlds ..." Twenty years ago, Frank and Leyla believed for a few moments that they came from the same world, from one society. Yes, they lived in one society, but that society had two faces, and now, after twenty years, it has even more of those faces.

Choreographer Edward Clug skillfully blended a enchanting stage cocktail from seemingly disparate ingredients.

The only opera by significant composer Ludwig van Beethoven received three different versions, and three separate premieres. However, only the last one, from 1814, on which the composer worked for 12 years, gained general admiration and was accepted by the European opera audience.