Forty five years will have passed since the premiere of the legendary staged MASS by Leonard Bernstein in 2016. Commemorate it with our new, spectacular production, with Vojtěch Dyk starring as the Celebrant!
The radical, distinctive, exclusive and provocative composition, brilliantly merging classical music, rock, jazz and musical theater aroused great emotion at its initial launch in 1971. Strictly speaking, it shocked. Especially the scene with the priest dancing at the altar had sparked outrage and its visualizing was considered almost sacrilegious. In the Czech Republic, the Mass in its complete form was staged in 1997 in the courtyard of the Prague Castle. The role of the Boy was performed by the young Vojtěch Dyk, who is starring in the lead role now. The latest live performance in this country took place at the Moravian Autumn music festival in Brno in 2001.
The uniqueness of the new production of the MASS is enhanced by the first staging of the reduced version, which has been specially adapted for a smaller cast so as to be transferable to smaller halls and open to the general public. The content is unabridged, but the multicomponent ensemble is reduced to a smaller number of performers - even though the total number of performers still consists of about 100 people! Bernstein's Mass has never been staged in this form in the Czech Republic.
