Events Archive
July 2013.
Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson. Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
Read More »Monsters University is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
Read More »Maria Joao - vocal; Joao Farinha - fender rhodes, electronics; André Nascimento- electronics
Maria Joao (born Maria Joao Monteiro Grancha) is a Portuguese jazz singer.
She is known for her vocal flexibility and improvisational skills. While normally considered a jazz artist, her music incorporates a mix of folk/ethnic music, modern jazz, avant-garde, electronica, symphonic and other genres.
Although her main musical partner is Portuguese pianist Mário Laginha, she has worked with many musicians throughout her career, including Aki Takase, Manu Katche, Trilok Gurtu, Bobby McFerrin, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Joe Zawinul, Ralph Towner, Dino Saluzzi, Kai Eckhardt, Gilberto Gil and Lenine.
Read More »Bruno Mičetić - guitar; Joe Kaplowitz - keyboards; Ratko Divjak- drums
After his degree at the jazz department of the Conservatory in Klagenfurt , Bruno Mičetić has formed a trio with musicians that he worked with throughout his studies. His recent trio has performed at numerous jazz festivals.
The new trio features the American pianist, composer and arranger Joe Kaplowitz and renowned Slovenian drummer - Ratko Divjak - a member of the Big Band RTV Slovenia, known to a wider audience as a member of the legendary band TIME, as well as the winner of the discographic award “Porin” for the Lifetime Achievement. The new album "Phantom's whisper" is a hommage to jazz standards that trio plays for some time, which in it’s final shaping produces an enormous creative sound mass . The album leaves an average jazz listener in a good faith in true jazz musicians, exceptional musical personalities who surrender themselves without compromise.
Read More »Best known for his work with Dizzy Gillespie, Afro-Cuban and jazz drummer Ignacio Berroa was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1980 Berroa moved to New York. By the next year, Dizzy Gillespie had invited him to join his quartet, and he spent the next ten years playing in the trumpeter's various groups. Ignacio Berroa has been recognized by many as one of the greatest drummers of our times. Jazz Legend Dizzy Gillespie best defined Ignacio as: “… the only Latin drummer in the world in the history of American music that intimately knows both worlds: his native Afro Cuban music as well as Jazz…”
His first album as a leader, “Codes”, released under Blue Note Records, was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. “Codes” also won a Danish Music Award in 2007 as best International Jazz Album.
He was recently honored by inclusion in the 2011 Blue Note and Modern Drummer Release entitled "Jazz Drumming Legends".
Ignacio has recorded and played with musicians of the stature of: McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Jaco Pastorius, Ron Carter, Charlie Haden, Tito Puente and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, just to name a few.
Read More »Folklore Ensemble King Tomislav, New Zealand / Klapa Samoana, Samoan Islands
(Guests: Jacques Houdek, Dani Stipanicev, Miroslav Škoro)
Thursday, the 4th July 2013. at 21:30 Summer Stage, Opatija
June 2013.
Musical by Milan Grgic and Alfi Kabiljo, Yalta, Yalta, has returned to the stage disseminating the wealth of top songs wrapped in a dramatic story.
Read More »Two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital age find their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete with a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses for a shot at employment.
Director: Shawn Levy
Read More »After Earth (2013) 100 min - Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi - 31 May 2013 (USA)
A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan After Earth (2013) 100 min - Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi - 31 May 2013 (USA)
A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Jaden Smith, Will Smith, Sophie Okonedo
Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a seven-hour flight ahead of them, they are going to have to speak to each other.
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