(festival programme subject to change)
Dates: 21. – 29. 11. 2014
subtitle “HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEOŠ!”
21. 11. 2014, 4pm, New Town Hall, Brno
Official opening of the festival
Leoš Janáček – Youth
Janáček Ensemble
21. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Janáček Theatre
Gala festival opening
Leoš Janáček – The Makropulos Affair (premiere)
Conductor: Marko Ivanović
Stage director: David Radok
Brno National Theatre
22. 11. 2014, 11 am, Music Faculty JAMU Brno
Morning performance
Concert by teachers and students from MF JAMU, piano department
Leoš Janáček, Pavel Haas, Vítězslava Kaprálová – selection of works for piano
Piano: Jan Jiraský, Igor Ardašev, Alice Rajnohová
22. 11. 2014, 4 pm, Janáček Theatre (foyer)
Choral concert
Bohuslav Martinů – Primrose
Josef Bohuslav Foerster – Forest Spring, Crocodile, Nut
Karel Reiner – Flowered Horse (selection from the cycle)
Brno Children’s Choir
Choirmaster: Valerie Maťašová
Leoš Janáček – Little Queens
Leoš Janáček – Nursery Rhymes
Kantiléna youth and children’s choir at the Brno Philharmonic
Choirmaster: Jakub Klecker
22. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Theatre on Orlí
Leoš Janáček – The Cunning Little Vixen (chamber version of the opera, Jonathan Dove, 1998)
Conductor: Nikol Kraft
Stage director: David Kříž
Chamber Opera of the Music Faculty of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, Brno
22. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Sono Music Club
Terry Riley – Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
Geeshie Wiley (arr. Jacob Garchik) – Last Kind Words
Traditional (arr. Jacob Garchik) – Smyrneiko Minore
Sergei Rachmaninoff (arr. Kronos Quartet) – Nunc Dimittis (All-night vigil, vespers Op. 37)
John Oswald – Spectre
Aleksandra Vrebalov – …hold me, neighbor, in this storm…
Traditional (arr. Kronos, transc. Ljova) – A Thousand Thoughts
Steve Reich – Different Trains
Kronos Quartet
23. 11. 2014, 10 am, Leoš Janáček Memorial
Morning performance
Leoš Janáček – Youth
Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Brass Quintet
Janáček Ensemble
23. 11. 2014, 3 pm, Reduta Theatre
Ivo Medek, Markéta Dvořáková – Alice in bed
Conductor: Ondrej Olos
Stage director: Rocc
Brno National Theatre
23. 11. 2014, 6 pm, Janáček Theatre
Leoš Janáček – Jenůfa
Conductor: Dirk Kaftan
Stage director: Peter Konwitschny
Opera Graz
24. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Janáček Theatre
Leoš Janáček – The Makropulos Affair
Conductor: Marko Ivanović
Stage director: David Radok
Brno National Theatre
24. 11. 2014, 8 pm, Villa Tugendhat
Compositions dedicated to the 160th anniversary of the birth of L. Janáček
Alessandro Bosetti
25. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Mahen Theatre
Leoš Janáček – The Excursions of Mr Brouček
Conductor: Robert Jindra
Stage director: Jiří Nekvasil
National Moravian-Silesian Theatre
26. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Janáček Theatre
Leoš Janáček – The Cunning Little Vixen
Conductor: Robert Jindra
Stage director: Ondřej Havelka
National Theatre (Prague)
27. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Theatre on Orlí
Leoš Janáček – The Cunning Little Vixen (chamber version of the opera, Jonathan Dove, 1998)
Conductor: Nikol Kraft
Stage director: David Kříž
Chamber Opera of the Music Faculty of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, Brno
27. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Janáček Theatre
Antonín Dvořák: Fanfares for the Gala Opening of the Provincial Exhibition in Prague (1891)
Béla Bartók: Concerto no.1 for piano and orchestra
Marc-André Dalbavie: Variations on a theme by Janáček
Leoš Janáček: Sinfonietta
Conductor: to be announced
Piano: Denis Kožuchin
Brno Philharmonic
28. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Mahen Theatre
Leoš Janáček – Jenůfa
Conductor: Srboljub Dinic
Stage director: Ozren Prohič
Croatian National Theatre (Zagreb)
29. 11. 2014, 11 am, Leoš Janáček Memorial
Graffe Quartet
Leoš Janáček – String Quartet no. 2 “Intimate Letters”
Concert with an introductory talk by leading musicologists (Prof. Miloš Štědroň, Prof. John Tyrrell, PhDr. Jiří Zahrádka, Ph.D.)
29. 11. 2014, 3 pm, Music Faculty JAMU
A seriously unserious musical exhibition
A presentation from selected departments of MF JAMU connected to the festival’s dramaturgical themes
29. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Kounicova Stadium
Festival Closing Gala
Leoš Janáček – Glagolitic Mass
Performed by the Janáček Opera orchestra of the Brno National Theatre, the Janáček Opera choir of the Brno National Theatre, the Brno Philharmonic Choir of the Brno Beseda
Conductor: Jaroslav Kyzlink
Choirmaster: Josef Pančík
Organ: Petr Kolář
A unique musical event – the original version of the work (from 1927) in the actual place where it received its world premiere, with the original ensembles which performed the world premiere
30. 11. 2014, 7 pm, Janáček Theatre
Echoes of the Festival
Leoš Janáček – The Makropulos Affair
Conductor: Marko Ivanović
Stage director: David Radok
Brno National Theatre
Structure of the accompanying festival programme
International conference Opera Europa from 20.11 – 23.11. 2014
International conference (Masaryk University – Institute of Musicology) 24.11 – 26.11 2014
Children’s workshop to accompany the opera The Cunning Little Vixen
Exhibitions (the opera The Cunning Little Vixen, „Druhotvary 4“)
Musicologists‘ introductory talks prior to opera performances
