Dear all, we would like to cordially invite you all to the festival’s closing ceremony, which will be the performance Flames by Erwin Schulhoff. It was inspired by the work of Karel Josef Beneš and will be directed by Calixto Bieito. Flames will take place on 20 November at 19:00 at the Janáček Theatre. The piece…
On Saturday 19 November, the Janáček Festival will host a concert Quo vadis? of the Janáček Opera Orchestra of the National Theatre Brno. The conductor will be John Fiore, one of the most important opera conductors of the contemporary opera scene. In the solo parts you can look forward to Tomasz Konieczny, Csilla Boross,…
The Welsh National Opera premiered The Makropulos Affair on Friday 16 September. The production was a huge success with immediate positive reviews from The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, to name a few. “an unmissable triumph for Welsh National Opera” – The Daily Telegraph “Tomas Hanus clearly has this music in his soul,…
5. 11. 2022, 8 p.m. Venue: Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady Ensemble: Choir of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre / Canticum Ostrava Students from the Faculty of Music of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts Conductor: Jakub Klecker Tenor: Aleš Briscein Harp: Dominika Svozilová Soprano: Zuzana Čurmová Alto: Alžběta Symerská Bass:…
6. 11. 2022, 3 p.m. Venue: Reduta Theatre Pavel Haas Quartet The performance lasts 90 minutes including one intermission. Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor Sergei Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major (on Kabardinian themes), op. 92 Leoš Janáček: Quartet for Two Violins, Viola and Cello “Intimate Letters”, JW VII/13…
16. 11. 2022, 7 p.m. Reduta Theatre Violin: Josef Špaček Piano: Miroslav Sekera The concert lasts 75 minutes including a 20 minute intermission. Leoš Janáček: Sonata for Violin and Piano, JW VII/7 Igor Stravinsky: Divertimento for Violin and Piano Leoš Janáček: 1. X. 1905 (From the Street, 1st October 1905), JW VIII/19 Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata…