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Slavomír Hořínka: Ave Maria (world premiere)

23 June 2019, Piarist Church of the Finding of the Holy Cross, Litomyšl Smetana’s Litomyšl Slavomír Hořínka: Ave Maria (world premiere) Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir, artistic director: Pavel Peřina, cond. Jiří Chvála

Martin Klusák: Mycelium (micro-concert with emergency siren test)

5 June 2019, 11:50 am, Johannes Kepler Grammar School, Prague Music for Sirens … micro-concerts with emergency siren test Martin Klusák: Mycelium (world premiere) students of Johannes Kepler Grammar School – musical instruments, natural objects, improvised recitation

Bonifantes Boys’ Choir: new works by Jan Jirásek and Jan Vičar

27 March 2019, Suk Hall, House of Music, Pardubice When the Boys Feel Like Singing Jan Jirásek: Song of David (world premiere) Jan Vičar: Tempus Iuvenis (world premiere) Kristýna Kůstková, Veronika Kaiserová, Josef Kovačič – solos, Bonifantes Boys’ Choir, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, cond. Jan Míšek

Oldenburg: Brundibár

27 January 2019, Exerzierhalle, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Oldenburg, Germany Hans Krása: Brundibár (premiere) Directed by: Jens Kerbel, music director: Thomas Honickel Cast: Paul Brady / Leonard von Steuber (Brundibár), Laura Asche / Simone Hauburger / Madita Wilkens (Aninka), Malin Grahl / Lara Hübner / Sabrina Schulz (Pepíček) and others Language: German Following performances: 2, 3 and 9 Feb 2019

Linz: Brundibár

„How to talk about the terrors and inhumanity of the Nazi period to kids? And how to speak about those whose names have never made it to historical literature?” These are the questions Landestheater Linz was trying to answer in their new production of Hans Krása’s children’s opera Brundibár premiered on 31 March. Conductor Martin Braun and … Read more

Jiřina Marková-Krystlíková: Rusalenka (world premiere)

The 59th year of the Smetana’s Litomyšl music festival (Jun 16 – Jul 6) thought about its youngest spectators, too. It was for them that the festival staged a children opera performance Rusalenka by a well-known singer, pedagogue, and directress of the Prague children’s opera Jiřina Marková-Krystlíková (*1957). Commissioned by the festival, the work is based on Dvořák’s most famous opera. The … Read more

Trier: Brundibár

Less than two weeks after the Brundibár premiere in Staatstheater Kassel, a new production of this children opera by Hans Krása was put on on another German opera scene, namely the one of Theater Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate. The piece, performed more than 55 times with the deported children in the Theresienstadt ghetto where the author eventually died, was … Read more

Kassel: Brundibár

Staatstheater Kassel presented a new production of Hans Krása’s famous Brundibár. The 1938 opera, once sung by children of the Theresienstadt ghetto, was rehearsed by a children choir Cantamus where the soloists were recruited from, too. They were accompanied by the TJO, Theater-Jugendorchester, which is an ensemble formed by talented instrumentalists aged 12-20. The show is a solo debut by … Read more