BRNO PHILHARMONIC AT THEATRE
JAN NOVÁK Dido, cantata (narratives, songs, lamentations) on Virgil’s verse from Book IV of Aeneid for mezzo-soprano, narrator, male chorus and orchestra,
JOSEF SUK Ripening, symphonic poem, Op. 34
mezzo-soprano Marlene Lichtenberg, narrator Richard Novák, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, choir director Petr Fiala, Brno Philharmonic, conductor Stefan Veselka
• 50th anniversary of the cantata Dido, written in 1967 to mark one hundred years of the classical gymnasium (grammar school) in Brno
• Celebrated bass Richard Novák as reciter in a work by his cousin, the important Brno composer Jan Novák
• 100th anniversary of the symphonic poem Ripening (1917), Josef Suk’s cardinal work
