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Elvia Nacinovich
Performing Arts

lvia (née Malusà) Nacinovich was born in Vodnjan (Dignano) in 1953. After completing her studies at the “Accademia regionale d’arte drammatica” in Trieste in 1973, she joined the Italian drama company "HNK Ivan Zajc" as an actress.

stage actress

born in Vodnjan (Dignano)
1953

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, 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 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:

May 10, 2003 - Pirandello za umjetnički jubilej Elvije Nacinovich, Novi List (Hrvatski)
May 16, 2003 - U životu nema ozbiljnije stvari od igre, Novi List (Hrvatski)
October 21, 2003 - Nagrađeni »Komšiluk« te glumci Elvia Nacinovich i Zdenko Botić, Novi list (Hrvatski)
July 5, 2007 - Elvia Nacinovich: «Da grande non voglio fare la regista», La Voce del Popolo (Italiano)

Source:

http://hnk-zajc.hr/arhiva/t-elvia_nacinovich.html (updated)

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