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Time Out
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Baglietto with family: Returns with The Little Prince and shares the stage with his children
Juan Carlos Baglietto returns to portray The Aviator, the iconic character Saint Exupéry created in his literary classic The Little Prince. It's been 21 years since the popular singer first donned the goggles to step into the shoes of this adventurer who tries to reclaim the child within all of us—a role that has become the theatrical hit of the moment. In this new version, titled The Little Prince, A Musical Adventure, and one of the undisputed family plans for the 2025 winter holidays, the singer-songwriter from Rosario shares the project with his sons, Julián and Joaquín. Moreover, he rediscovers the joy of taking the stage in a universal story that touches the heart, excites, and makes us reflect in equal parts, with a dazzling production and a talented, eclectic cast that includes Flor Otero, Roberto Catarineu, and Walas (singer of Massacre). The Little Prince, Saint Exupéry's work, is from 1943. Why do you think it remains so relevant? The work is absolutely up to date; the miseries are the same but represented by characters who today resonate more than those from the 1940s. I believe it remains current because the relationship between people—honest human connections—is absolutely necessary. And, despite it being a cliché, it is essential right now to believe in things that cannot be touched or seen. "It is essential, at this moment, to believe in things that cannot be touched or seen" What is it like to step into the shoes of such a mythical character as The Aviator? Honestly, it is a great happiness for me and, at the same time, a big responsibility. It presents a challenge that I like, that excites me, and that I enjoy. What differences in context do you feel when playing the same character 20 years later? The differences are, in some sense, only circumstantial. My back hurts more, of course, but I experience the character with the same intensity and commitment as I did 21 years ago. For me, it is an honor to be part of this project. "I experience the character with the same intensity and commitment as I did 21 years ago" What changes for you personally when you go on stage to play a character versus when you go on as a singer-songwriter? The difference between going on stage as a singer or to play The Aviator is that the latter requires me to respect a format, to follow a script. There is no room for improvisation—or rather, there is, but much less than in my personal projects. I take great pleasure in playing this character, who has quite a bit in common with me. How do you approach the relationship with the little ones? I worked for several years before recording albums with children; I used to animate kids' parties and do shows. So, it's not strange for me to speak to children. And regarding how to approach the relationship, I find it quite easy. The children I worked with over seven or eight years teaching shows taught me a lot that I now apply in my character's connection with the young audience. Still, this show is for the whole family, not just kids. "Before recording albums, I used to animate kids' parties" What is it like working with your children? Working with my children is an honor, a pleasure, a satisfaction, and a great emotion. They don't work with me just because they are my sons, but because they are absolutely talented at what they do. Joaquín Baglietto plays the businessman, and Julián Baglietto is the musical director of the show. I love them and I am deeply proud. What do you enjoy most about theater? Many things, but above all, I enjoy the rigor it requires, the kind of pseudo-routine it proposes, upon which—once you feel confident—you can build wonderful things. What can you say about the cast that accompanies you? The cast is top-notch! It's a huge, very diverse cast featuring Zaina as The Vain One, Walas from Massacre as The King, Roberto Catarineu, an institution, as The Fox, Carlitos March as The Drunkard, Flor Otero as The Snake, Valen Podio as The Little Flower, and of course Luis Rodriguez Echeverría as The Little Prince, with whom we've developed a great relationship. A luxury cast and an honor to be part of it. We always do a "ping pong" of Buenos Aires favorites, but how about a "Rosario ping pong" with you? A place to eat well Gorostarzu, where there are picadas (snack platters), beer, and the best 'Carlitos' sandwiches in the city. A childhood scent Praliné. For Porteños, it's like caramelized peanuts ('garrapiñada'). A neighborhood to stroll Parque Independencia is a spectacular place for a walk. A place to listen to music I listen to music in the car, so... my car! A musician from Rosario All the folk troubadours. Lito Nevia and all those who have come from other roots like folklore. It's hard to choose just one; they're all part of the popular culture and history of Rosario, fundamental in this country's popular music. A favorite writer 'Negro' Fontanarrosa A café to read in El Cairo, for all it represents. It's an emblematic place where Negro Fontanarrosa used to meet with other 'delinquents,' and they called themselves 'the table of the gallants.' A park to enjoy The park near my house in Arroyito, Parque Alem—I enjoyed it a lot as a child and teenager. An iconic place The beautiful Paraná River.
Irish Times
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
‘I'm remembering Srebrenica while Srebrenica is happening in Gaza'
The world will mark 30 years since the Srebrenica genocide on Friday, but promises of 'never again' from western leaders ring hollow to many survivors of the Serb massacre of 8,000 Bosniak men and boys. Two years before the slaughter led by Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic's troops, Srebrenica had been declared a United Nations safe haven, where Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) civilians would be protected by international peacekeepers. But Mladic was right to think the promise of protection was empty. As his forces shelled and overran the enclave, lightly armed Dutch soldiers in the area pleaded for air strikes. UN, Nato and western leaders dithered, and Serb troops simply expelled the peacekeepers and took control over tens of thousands of terrified Bosniaks. 'We were left to be murdered. Nobody cared,' says Jasmin Jusufovic, who as an eight-year-old in Srebrenica saw his father taken away to be executed by Serb soldiers who also killed all his other closest adult male relatives. 'We were put in a concentration camp under an open sky and then on July 11th ... you are trusting the Serbs – who have shown you for the past four years what they are capable of – to do something humane in Srebrenica,' he says. 'So as much as the culprits and responsibility for the genocide are Serb, it is also on the international community ... Because this is a genocide that was served on a plate to the Serbs.' Jasmin Jusufovic, a Bosniak who was eight years old when he survived the Srebrenica genocide, in which Bosnian Serb troops killed his father and all his other closest adult male relatives. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin The Bosnian war was in its fourth year when the Serbs seized Srebrenica. Jusufovic and his parents had been driven from their home in the village of Drinjaca, 55km northwest of the town, when Serbs attacked the area in May 1992. 'We were having lunch for Eid. Everything my mother had prepared for the festival was left on the table. We just had to go.' With his parents and members of his extended family, Jusufovic watched from the surrounding hills as Serb armour destroyed their house and the village mosque. They joined waves of Bosniaks who were being put to flight by a Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing in eastern Bosnia. The desperate situation was compounded by a western arms embargo on Bosnia that put its military at a huge disadvantage to Serb forces that had access to large stockpiles of ex-Yugoslav army weapons. In January 1994, the family had to flee again as Serb units bore down on the town of Konjevic Polje. They trekked through deep snow to reach Potocari – a village outside Srebrenica that is now the site of a burial ground for more than 6,700 victims of the genocide – and Jusufovic remembers being chilled to the bone when they arrived. Srebrenica genocide: Why Bosnia is still divided 30 years on Listen | 39:42 'A family friend in Srebrenica gave us a house to live in, because it was empty after his mother had been killed by the Serbs. Ten of us lived in two rooms. And I started to go to school in Srebrenica,' Jusufovic recalls. 'I always remember my family trying to live as normally as they could, no matter what the circumstances. Spring came and I remember everyone going out of the house and finding a bit of land to plant and grow something,' he says. 'I was getting this feeling of life functioning. My parents and other relatives were there, I was going to school, making friends. I could forget about the siege happening around us. As a kid you don't have big territory – just your house and your school. Sporadic gunfire and shelling intensified as Serb advances in 1995 made a mockery of western declarations that Srebrenica should be a demilitarised zone. 'On July 8th, I was woken up early by a rumbling noise that I could feel in my bones, as if it was coming through the ground. The attack on Srebrenica had started,' says Jusufovic. 'We were so heavily bombarded that it felt like we were boiling in a pot. There would be a few minutes of respite, maybe when they were reloading, when we could run to check on my grandmother or uncles or cousins. It was all frantic running.' By the morning of July 11th it was too dangerous to stay in Srebrenica. Jusufovic's parents again gathered up a few essentials and he wondered which books to stuff into his rucksack. He chose The Little Prince, a children's encyclopedia and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: 'I remember looking out from our house, which overlooked the road, and seeing a sea of heads running,' he says. Thousands of people sought protection at the Dutch peacekeepers' base at a former battery factory in Potocari, as Mladic's triumphant men roamed the area. 'Don't be afraid, no one will harm you,' Mladic told terrified Bosniaks, as he and his men threw chocolates and cigarettes to their new prisoners. To his own people Mladic gave a different message, peppered with slurs that Serbs have used against Muslims since the days of Ottoman rule in the Balkans. 'Here we are, on July 11th, 1995, in Serb Srebrenica. We give this town to the Serb people as a gift,' Mladic said in an address filmed by a Serb cameraman. 'Finally ... the time has come to take revenge on the Turks in this region.' First, the Serb troops took away Bosniak men trapped outside the locked gates of the packed battery factory. Two days later, the Serbs ordered people inside the UN base to come out, and the peacekeepers just looked on. Jusufovic and his mother climbed into a waiting truck with other women and children, as the Serbs separated out the men and some of the boys. 'I saw the Serbs pushing my father away. He was holding my red jacket. I remember watching him, voiceless but everything inside me was screaming. And he just put his finger to his lips to tell me to stay silent and keep going.' He was shot dead in the village of Pilica, where Serb soldiers executed hundreds of prisoners in a cultural centre. [ Srebrenica genocide: Why Bosnia is still divided 30 years on Opens in new window ] 'Three of my mother's brothers were also murdered in Srebrenica, and a fourth in Drinjaca,' Jusufovic says. 'My father's brother was murdered in Srebrenica. The husbands of my father's sisters, four of them, were also murdered. The husband of my mother's sister was also murdered in Srebrenica, as was his father. The father of my aunt was also murdered, as were more distant relatives.' A Bosnian Muslim woman visits gravestones during a funeral ceremony for 50 newly-identified Bosnian Muslim victims, at the Potocari Memorial Centre and Cemetery in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in July 2022. Photograph: Jasmin Brutus/EPA Jusufovic's father was buried in the memorial cemetery at Potocari only in 2012. Like many victims of Serb killings, his remains were found in multiple graves after Serbs moved bodies using mechanical diggers and dump trucks to try to hide war crimes. Seven victims recently identified through DNA analysis will be buried there on Friday. International courts ruled that the Srebrenica massacre was genocide and, after 14 years on the run, Mladic was found guilty of genocide along with Radovan Karadzic, wartime political leader of the Bosnian Serbs. Serbia and Republika Srpska – an autonomous Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina – acknowledge that grave crimes were committed at Srebrenica but deny it was genocide, and glorification of war criminals is not uncommon in Serb society, making reconciliation with Bosniaks a remote prospect. Emir Suljagic, head of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin 'The facts of this case have been established so many times over and are readily available,' says Emir Suljagic, head of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre that is housed in the former battery factory that became the doomed base for UN peacekeepers. 'We're not going to debate facts. When facts are not debated, then we can sit down and have any kind of conversation. This is the most researched and investigated mass atrocity in the 20th century. DNA techniques, satellite technology and all other types of electronic technology were used. So join reality, then we can talk.' [ 'It's an honour to be able to send a warning': Defiant Sarajevo a scarred survivor of Bosnia's war Opens in new window ] In advance of Friday's commemoration events, UN secretary general António Guterres acknowledged that 'the United Nations and the world failed the people of Srebrenica. This collective failure was not an accident of history. It was the result of policies, propaganda and international indifference.' Yet such statements sound false to many Bosniaks when the West cannot find the conviction to stop current conflicts, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine or Israel's onslaught against Gaza . 'Today what hurts me, and I'm having serious trouble grasping, is that I'm remembering Srebrenica while Srebrenica is happening in Gaza,' Jusufovic says. 'What have we learned from Srebrenica if we are allowing all of this to happen again now? Every kid I see ... their soul being ripped from their body with shock and tragedy, shaking with starvation – was me 30 years ago,' he adds. 'Whenever I see international officials empathising about Srebrenica while staying silent on Palestine – excuse me, I don't believe a word of what you are saying. If you really mean it, then do something. The whole point of Srebrenica is never again – anywhere.'
Irish Times
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
‘The whole point of Srebrenica is never again – anywhere': West's sympathy rings hollow to many survivors of genocide
The world will mark 30 years since the Srebrenica genocide on Friday, but promises of 'never again' from western leaders ring hollow to many survivors of the Serb massacre of 8,000 Bosniak men and boys. Two years before the slaughter led by Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic's troops, Srebrenica had been declared a United Nations safe haven, where Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) civilians would be protected by international peacekeepers. But Mladic was right to think the promise of protection was empty. As his forces shelled and overran the enclave, lightly armed Dutch soldiers in the area pleaded for air strikes. UN, Nato and western leaders dithered, and Serb troops simply expelled the peacekeepers and took control over tens of thousands of terrified Bosniaks. 'We were left to be murdered. Nobody cared,' says Jasmin Jusufovic, who as an eight-year-old in Srebrenica saw his father taken away to be executed by Serb soldiers who also killed all his other closest adult male relatives. 'We were put in a concentration camp under an open sky and then on July 11th ... you are trusting the Serbs – who have shown you for the past four years what they are capable of – to do something humane in Srebrenica,' he says. 'So as much as the culprits and responsibility for the genocide are Serb, it is also on the international community ... Because this is a genocide that was served on a plate to the Serbs.' Jasmin Jusufovic, a Bosniak who was eight years old when he survived the Srebrenica genocide, in which Bosnian Serb troops killed his father and all his other closest adult male relatives. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin The Bosnian war was in its fourth year when the Serbs seized Srebrenica. Jusufovic and his parents had been driven from their home in the village of Drinjaca, 55km northwest of the town, when Serbs attacked the area in May 1992. 'We were having lunch for Eid. Everything my mother had prepared for the festival was left on the table. We just had to go.' With his parents and members of his extended family, Jusufovic watched from the surrounding hills as Serb armour destroyed their house and the village mosque. They joined waves of Bosniaks who were being put to flight by a Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing in eastern Bosnia. The desperate situation was compounded by a western arms embargo on Bosnia that put its military at a huge disadvantage to Serb forces that had access to large stockpiles of ex-Yugoslav army weapons. In January 1994, the family had to flee again as Serb units bore down on the town of Konjevic Polje. They trekked through deep snow to reach Potocari – a village outside Srebrenica that is now the site of a burial ground for more than 6,700 victims of the genocide – and Jusufovic remembers being chilled to the bone when they arrived. 'A family friend in Srebrenica gave us a house to live in, because it was empty after his mother had been killed by the Serbs. Ten of us lived in two rooms. And I started to go to school in Srebrenica,' Jusufovic recalls. 'I always remember my family trying to live as normally as they could, no matter what the circumstances. Spring came and I remember everyone going out of the house and finding a bit of land to plant and grow something,' he says. 'I was getting this feeling of life functioning. My parents and other relatives were there, I was going to school, making friends. I could forget about the siege happening around us. As a kid you don't have big territory – just your house and your school. Sporadic gunfire and shelling intensified as Serb advances in 1995 made a mockery of western declarations that Srebrenica should be a demilitarised zone. 'On July 8th, I was woken up early by a rumbling noise that I could feel in my bones, as if it was coming through the ground. The attack on Srebrenica had started,' says Jusufovic. 'We were so heavily bombarded that it felt like we were boiling in a pot. There would be a few minutes of respite, maybe when they were reloading, when we could run to check on my grandmother or uncles or cousins. It was all frantic running.' By the morning of July 11th it was too dangerous to stay in Srebrenica. Jusufovic's parents again gathered up a few essentials and he wondered which books to stuff into his rucksack. He chose The Little Prince, a children's encyclopedia and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: 'I remember looking out from our house, which overlooked the road, and seeing a sea of heads running,' he says. Thousands of people sought protection at the Dutch peacekeepers' base at a former battery factory in Potocari, as Mladic's triumphant men roamed the area. 'Don't be afraid, no one will harm you,' Mladic told terrified Bosniaks, as he and his men threw chocolates and cigarettes to their new prisoners. To his own people Mladic gave a different message, peppered with slurs that Serbs have used against Muslims since the days of Ottoman rule in the Balkans. 'Here we are, on July 11th, 1995, in Serb Srebrenica. We give this town to the Serb people as a gift,' Mladic said in an address filmed by a Serb cameraman. 'Finally ... the time has come to take revenge on the Turks in this region.' First, the Serb troops took away Bosniak men trapped outside the locked gates of the packed battery factory. Two days later, the Serbs ordered people inside the UN base to come out, and the peacekeepers just looked on. Jusufovic and his mother climbed into a waiting truck with other women and children, as the Serbs separated out the men and some of the boys. 'I saw the Serbs pushing my father away. He was holding my red jacket. I remember watching him, voiceless but everything inside me was screaming. And he just put his finger to his lips to tell me to stay silent and keep going.' He was shot dead in the village of Pilica, where Serb soldiers executed hundreds of prisoners in a cultural centre. [ Srebrenica genocide: Why Bosnia is still divided 30 years on Opens in new window ] 'Three of my mother's brothers were also murdered in Srebrenica, and a fourth in Drinjaca,' Jusufovic says. 'My father's brother was murdered in Srebrenica. The husbands of my father's sisters, four of them, were also murdered. The husband of my mother's sister was also murdered in Srebrenica, as was his father. The father of my aunt was also murdered, as were more distant relatives.' A Bosnian Muslim woman visits gravestones during a funeral ceremony for 50 newly-identified Bosnian Muslim victims, at the Potocari Memorial Centre and Cemetery in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in July 2022. Photograph: Jasmin Brutus/EPA Jusufovic's father was buried in the memorial cemetery at Potocari only in 2012. Like many victims of Serb killings, his remains were found in multiple graves after Serbs moved bodies using mechanical diggers and dump trucks to try to hide war crimes. Seven victims recently identified through DNA analysis will be buried there on Friday. International courts ruled that the Srebrenica massacre was genocide and, after 14 years on the run, Mladic was found guilty of genocide along with Radovan Karadzic, wartime political leader of the Bosnian Serbs. Serbia and Republika Srpska – an autonomous Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina – acknowledge that grave crimes were committed at Srebrenica but deny it was genocide, and glorification of war criminals is not uncommon in Serb society, making reconciliation with Bosniaks a remote prospect. Emir Suljagic, head of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin 'The facts of this case have been established so many times over and are readily available,' says Emir Suljagic, head of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre that is housed in the former battery factory that became the doomed base for UN peacekeepers. 'We're not going to debate facts. When facts are not debated, then we can sit down and have any kind of conversation. This is the most researched and investigated mass atrocity in the 20th century. DNA techniques, satellite technology and all other types of electronic technology were used. So join reality, then we can talk.' [ 'It's an honour to be able to send a warning': Defiant Sarajevo a scarred survivor of Bosnia's war Opens in new window ] In advance of Friday's commemoration events, UN secretary general António Guterres acknowledged that 'the United Nations and the world failed the people of Srebrenica. This collective failure was not an accident of history. It was the result of policies, propaganda and international indifference.' Yet such statements sound false to many Bosniaks when the West cannot find the conviction to stop current conflicts, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine or Israel's onslaught against Gaza . 'Today what hurts me, and I'm having serious trouble grasping, is that I'm remembering Srebrenica while Srebrenica is happening in Gaza,' Jusufovic says. 'What have we learned from Srebrenica if we are allowing all of this to happen again now? Every kid I see ... their soul being ripped from their body with shock and tragedy, shaking with starvation – was me 30 years ago,' he adds. 'Whenever I see international officials empathising about Srebrenica while staying silent on Palestine – excuse me, I don't believe a word of what you are saying. If you really mean it, then do something. The whole point of Srebrenica is never again – anywhere.'
The Hindu
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Bengaluru welcomes rock with a cause this weekend
Bangalore Death Fest May 30, 6:30pm onwards Ignite Super Club, HSR Layout Entry: ₹1,900 onwards via If there is anything this city loves about its death metal, it is that it has got to be fast and relentless, with a nod to the old school. The third edition of Bangalore Death Fest is bringing in exactly those kind of bands, headlined by American death metal veterans Massacre, with support from Mumbai trio Atmosfear and city-based band Regicide. Massacre, part of the Florida metal scene right from the 1980s, will make their India debut at the event. Expect material from their seminal 1991 album From Beyond, considering their India stop is part of Massacre's From Beyond Down Under and Death in Asia tour. The band currently comprises vocalist Kam Lee, guitarists Carlos Gonzalez and Jason Banning, bassist Tim Wilson and drummer Elden Santos. 'The band will deliver a mix of classic hits, fresh material, and a few surprises,' the event description adds. An added bonus is Atmosfear coming in on the back of releasing their latest single 'Colossal Abhorrence,' which they say 'delves into the human condition in an almost apocalyptic world we now live in.' Lala Tamar May 30 and 31, 9:30pm onwards Windmills, Whitefield Entry: ₹2,000 (seating), ₹750 (standing), via and Vocalist, dancer and guimbry (a lute-like, three-stringed instrument) artiste Lala Tamar will perform with her band at Windmills this weekend. Described by the organisers as an 'electrifying force' with a border-defying and fiery performance style, Tamar will be joined by flamenco guitarist Ofer Ronen, bassist Oussama Menay and drummer Habib Baychou. Lala was raised in Morocco and Brazil, leading to a 'complex diasporic identity that she expresses through music, movement, and mysticism,' the event description states. It adds, 'With a deep reverence for her Sephardic Amazigh heritage, Tamar reinterprets the musical legacies of North Africa with an intensely personal and modern voice. Her artistry fuses gnawa trance, flamenco, Berber rhythms, and Ladino song traditions with contemporary pop, jazz, and electronic elements, creating performances that are at once sacred and subversive, intimate, and explosive.' Tatakai June 1, 7pm onwards Ignite Super Club, HSR Layout Entry: ₹320 onwards, via plus cover charge at the door Bands who rock with a cause are coming to town, kicking off the multi-city Tatakai tour in Bengaluru. These include Sri Lankan rock band Paranoid Earthling, Pune-based rock trio Nemophilis and North East-origin electronic rock/nu-metal band Rain In Sahara. All three bands intend to bring social messaging through their performances, from mental health to economic and environmental crises. Paranoid Earthling's frontman Mirshad Buckman says, 'We are returning to Bengaluru as a performing act after 16 years since our last gig in 2009, with a brand new lineup and new music in hand. We're set to start our tour in the city of metal and rock music.' Rain In Sahara's vocalist Lain Heringman says, 'The entire tour has been a totally do-it-yourself bootstrapped effort with all three bands pouring in heart, hustle, and belief to make it happen.' Talking about their setlist, drummer Akarsh Singh from Nemophilis says, 'Fans can definitely look forward to a vibrant mix of powerful tracks from our previous album, The Iceberg. The energy will be electric! And, adding a special touch, with our acoustic album dropping on June 1, we'll be weaving in a couple of those reimagined songs into our setlist.' Akshada Krishnan Trio June 1, 6 pm onwards The Blue Room, Jayanagar Entry: ₹800 via Pianist and composer Akshada Krishnan has performed across Goa and Pondicherry in recent times and she is now making her way to Bengaluru for an intimate gig in the trio format, joined by Sricharan Sunder on electric bass and Rohit PS on drums. Described as a 'demanding set' by organisers and venue The Blue Room, the Akshada Krishnan Trio is a new jazz act on the block and their set will largely feature contemporary jazz compositions by influences such as Shai Maestro, Nate Smith, Avishai Cohen, and Tigran Hamasyan. The event description adds, 'The featured composers are not just pianists, but also include a drummer and double bassists, known for their sophisticated and intense musical language and challenging compositions. Expect odd metres, playful groupings, and rich harmonic language that supports dynamic, story-driven music. They will also present two rearranged traditional jazz standards to honour the roots and heritage from which the modern jazz language has evolved.'
