In thirty years on the stage she has played
eighty-six different
roles, the most notable being:
- Sister Angelica (Krleza, Noblemen Glembajevs),
- Shoemaker (Lorca, Wondrous lady shoemaker),
- Gruba (Drzic, Skup),
- Felice (Goldoni, Ruffians),
- Mother (Mariani, Mela),
- Eva (C. Terron, the monodrama Eva and the
word),
- Antigona (Gavran, Kreontov Antigona),
- Medea (according to Euripides, Medea Apatrida),
- Maria (Giovannini-Magni musical, Il giorno della tartaruga),
- Woman (Pirandello, Si gira),
- Donna Cate (Goldoni, Il Campiello),
- Beatrice (Pirandello, Il berretto a sonagli),
- Electra (Fabrio-Gasparovic, Exercising life),
- Elisabetta (Gavran, Shakespeare & Elisabetta),
- Old actress ( Basseti, Salesmen of souls)
In 2003, she and her husband Bruno Nacinovich toured Italy with their company and
performed in the
Carlo
Goldoni comedy
Le baruffe
Chiozzotte which is spoken in the Venetian language. In May, they performed in Luigi
Pirandello's Così è (se vi pare), then in October premiered in Francesco
Randazzo's Kren l'isola dei maiali /
Kren, otok svinja, a drama set on the infamous island of Goli Otok /
Isola Calva.
Elvia has also done the following translations for the Italian drama
theater:
- Skup by Marin Drzic,
- Ball of Yarn by Petar Budak,
- Kontrada Pimpilincic by Ive Jurkovic,
- Wakeup, Kate by Milan Grgic
- Kreontova Antigona by Miro Gavran.
She also tried her hand in a children’s presentation. She translated [to
or from?] the Croatian version and adaptation
of Rene Pilot’s Oh, these children today. She also wrote the script
and directed the performances in And then the moon stuck its fingers in,
and Noises in the attic.
During the Balkan war in 1991 when the Italian drama theatre
became inactive,
she wrote and directed
Goldoni’s Mirandolini and the musical
Istriolina with her husband Bruno. They were performed by the members
of the drama section of the Italian Union in Pula who took it on
the road and performed it all over Istria,
Rijeka (Fiume) and
Trieste. She directed
her own production And then the moon stuck its fingers in in the
JAK in Losinj, which had been translated into Croatian by Vladimir Geric. Elvia also acted
in the TV drama Catherine II by Fedjo Sehovic, which was directed
by Daniel Marusic, and in TV series Becchi, battibecchi e rebecchini
for Radio Koper, for which she also wrote the script.
Elvia is the 1997 winner of the "Mediteran" prize at the Croatian festival
in Rijeka (Fiume) for short scripts, for the role of Elisabette and
Kennedy in the play Maria Stuarda by Dacia Maraini, sponsored by Novi List.
Translated by Pino Golja
Articles:
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May 10, 2003 - Pirandello za umjetnički jubilej Elvije Nacinovich,
Novi List (Hrvatski)
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May 16, 2003 - U
životu nema ozbiljnije stvari od igre, Novi List
(Hrvatski)
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October 21, 2003 - Nagrađeni »Komšiluk« te glumci Elvia Nacinovich i Zdenko Botić,
Novi list (Hrvatski)
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October 5, 2004 - Salotto allargato con la
nostra Elvia, La Vece del Popolo (Italiano)
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July 5, 2007 - Elvia Nacinovich: «Da
grande non voglio fare la regista», La Voce del Popolo (Italiano)
Source:
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http://hnk-zajc.hr/arhiva/t-elvia_nacinovich.html (updated)
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