Wednesday, September 27
Franciscan Church, 8.00 p.m

Ensemble Dialogos

Hekuba
based on writtings of Marin Držić (1559) and Lodovic Dolce (1543)

Roles:
Katarina Livljanić, Hekuba
Francisco Mañalich, spirit of Polidora, Poliksena, Polinesto
Tonko Podrug, Ulise
Milivoj Rilov, Agamemnon
Srećko Damjanović, servant

Kor:
Kantaduri
Joško Ćaleta, voice and artistic leadership
Srećko Damjanović, voice
Nikola Damjanović, voice
Tonko Podrug, voice
Milivoj Rilov, voice

Instruments:
Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes, dvojnice
Albrecht Maurer, viela, lijerica
Francisco Mañalich, viola

Directing, scene, costumes and titles: Sanda Hržić
Musical leadership, libretto: Katarina Livljanić

Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić, Francisco Mañalich, Joško Ćaleta
Instrumental musical reconstruction: Norbert Rodenkirchen, Albrecht Maurer

Performance with subtitles in Croatian
Translation: Vojo Šindolić i Katarina Livljanić
Lights and equipment: Srećko Damjanović

 

Katarina Livljanić, singer and musicologist, is an international expert in medieval music and plainchant performance. After completing her master’s degree at the Music Academy in Zagreb, she pursued her doctoral studies in Paris, focusing on the issues of oral and written tradition of medieval music, while simultaneously honing her singing skill. She was full time professor at the department of medieval music at the Sorbonne University in Paris for almost twenty years. Since 2019 she has been teaching medieval and renaissance music singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She is regularly invited as visiting lecturer or artist-in-residence to numerous universities in Europe and America, including Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, Wellesley etc. She publishes articles about medieval chant performance in specialized reviews worldwide and is the author of a volume in the collection Paléographie Musicale founded in by the monks of Solesmes in 1889. From 2021, she is the artistic director of the cycle of early music at Musical Evenings in St. Donat in Zadar. At the largest international early music festival in Utrecht, Katarina Livljanić is a guest-artistic co-curator this year.

 

Ensemble Dialogos, specialized in medieval singing and liturgical theater of the Glagolitic tradition, was founded by its leader Katarina Livljanić. The ensemble brings together singers and instrumentalists from different backgrounds and countries to revive European oral and written traditions, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Through the research of Katarina Livljanić, Dialogos’s programmes allow audiences worldwide to (re)discover unknown repertoires, with a particular interest for the southern Slavic world. Dialogos has performed in the most prestigious festivals and concert halls worldwide, among others at the Cité de la musique in Paris, BOZAR in Brussels, the Edinburgh International Festival, the WDR season in Cologne, Festivals in Utrecht and Antwerp, where Katarina Livljanić was a guest artistic advisor in 2012, in the USA (Boston Early Music Festival, Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum in New York), Canada, North Africa and Latin America, including numerous radio and TV productions. French and international critics acclaimed the ensemble for the creativity of its musical choices, the quality of its interpretations as well as the research that accompanies each new project. The ensemble has received numerous awards for its projects and discography releases, such as the Diapason d’Or, Choc from Monde de la Musique, Coup de Coeur from the Charles-Cros Academy, the Judita Award from the Split Summer Festival in 2007, and the Ivo Tijardović Award from the Croatian Home in Split in 2021, where Katarina Livljanić is an artist-in-residence with the Dialogos ensemble in 2023.