Jalta, Jalta is famous Croatia

Croatia

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 from 1971. Libretto

Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

 for the musical was written by Milan Grgić, while director is Vlado Štefančić. Author of the music is famous Croatian

Croats

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 composer Alfi Kabiljo

Alfi Kabiljo

Alfi Kabiljo is a Croatian composer and musician. He has been composing for over 60 years. During that time he has created an opus of more than 40 film and more than 100 episode soundtracks, eleven musical theaters, two musical films and two ballets...

. First performance was on 28 December 1971 in Zagreb

Zagreb

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Plot

The musical takes place in Yalta

Yalta

Yalta is a city in Crimea, southern Ukraine, on the north coast of the Black Sea.The city is located on the site of an ancient Greek colony, said to have been founded by Greek sailors who were looking for a safe shore on which to land. It is situated on a deep bay facing south towards the Black...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

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, during the Yalta Conference

Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D...

, when Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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, Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

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 and Franklin Roosevelt were there. Their valets also arrived with them: a Russian, Griša; an American, Larry; and an Englishman, Stanley. They are all in villa "Aramovski", which is cared for by houskeeper Nina Filipovna. However, the valets don't trust each other. They start to discuss how would they divide the world, and maybe they would succeed if in the Antarctic

Antarctic

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 there wasn't place named "Green Meadow", about which their bosses don't know. Houskeeper Nina shares branch for hanging of clothes on three parts, and each part she gives to one of the valets. Stanley and Larry have rebeld and nearly all three valets were expelled from the villa, when it was found that Griša secretly hangs clothes on whole branch. Nina tries to calm them down by promising them that she will be kind to all three. However, she was kind only to Stanley and Larry, so the valets started to fight each other. At the time bomb was activated in yard of the villa.

Musical ends when all three leaders, Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agree that "Green Meadow" will be no-mans land. After that they are all singing song "Neka cijeli ovaj svijet" ("Let This Whole World").

Music

Music for Jalta, Jalta was composed by Alfi Kabiljo

Alfi Kabiljo

Alfi Kabiljo is a Croatian composer and musician. He has been composing for over 60 years. During that time he has created an opus of more than 40 film and more than 100 episode soundtracks, eleven musical theaters, two musical films and two ballets...

, which made him famous. Musical is composed of those songs:

1. "Uvertira" ("Overture")
2. "Tri sobara" ("Three Valets")
3. "Zelena livada" ("Green Meadow")
4. "Whiskey, votka, gin" ("Whiskey, Vodka, Gin")
5. "Jalta, Jalta" ("Yalta, Yalta")
6. "Čunčurluk"
7. "Što će biti s nama sutra" ("What's Gonna Be With Uus Tommorow")
8. "Neka cijeli ovaj svijet" ("Let This Whole World")

External links

• Jalta, Jalta synopsis
• Article about the 2010 production of Jalta Jalta