On 9 April, citizens of Sarajevo will have the opportunity to see the opera directed by Sulejman Kupusović starring Amila Bakšić, Ivica Šarić, Amir Saračević, Denis Isaković, Margit Tomik, Aida Čorbadžić, Leonardo Šarić, Dragan Pavlović.
Hasanaginica, “The Mourning Song of the Noble Wife of the Asan Aga” is a ballad about the Muslim family Arapović in Dalmatia.
The incidents take place along the Province of Bosnia’s frontier in Vrdol (today Zagvozd), near the Biokovo mountains of Dalmatia, where the Lord (aga) Hasan Arapović had large estates.
The ballad relates that following a battle, whilst lying wounded, Hasan-aga summons his wife, Fatima Arapović (née Pintorović), who was unwilling to accompany him to the battlefield. Deeply angered and in pain, Hasan-aga sends his wife a message ordering her to leave his castle without their children. Despite pleading with her brother, who brings her the message and the divorce papers, Hasan-aga’s wife is ousted from her home and her brother arranges her to be married to a wealthy kadı. As a last wish before she is married, she asks her brother for a long veil so that she does not see her children as the wedding procession pass by her old castle. Ultimately, her children see her and call out for her. As she stops to bid them farewell one last time, she dies of sorrow.
The play will be shown at 7.30 p.m.
