The musical Nine Crosses was written especially for the Brno Municipal Theatre. The story tells an old Moravian legend about a tragic act that took place in a small village near Velká Bíteš. The music for the musical was composed by Brno composer Robin Schenk while the script was written by Petr Štěpán and Miroslav Ondra. The world premiere of the new musical will be brought to the stage by director Petr Gazdík.
The story begins with the journey of a landowner from Hluboké, who finds the injured body of a man and takes him home. It is a young foreigner – a Hungarian horse handler Luka. Luka slowly recovers on the farm and falls in love with the landowner’s daughter, Eliška, but his father does not want to hear about the betrayal. The stranger binds Eliška with a promise of fidelity and leaves to sell his estates in Hungary and return with the money for his bride. But time passes and Luka does not return. Eliška thus succumbs to the urging of her father and others to marry the miller’s son. On the wedding day, Luka returns from Hungary and soon learns of the revelry. Mad with rage, he swears revenge, which he eventually carries out together with the gamekeeper Kudla. Together they wait for the wedding procession on the road near Hluboké and end the lives of the wedding party, including the landowner, Eliška and others. In the end, he kills his companion and himself. When the other wedding guests arrive, they see a terrible scene. Nine dead bodies. They erect nine crosses at the scene of the crime in their memory.
The musical’s score is by Brno composer Robin Schenk, and the powerful story of love and hate by Petr Štěpán and Miroslav Ondra immerses the audience in a tale that takes place just outside Brno, and whether it is true or not, we are still reminded of it by the nine wooden crosses near the D1 motorway.
The world premiere of the new musical will be brought to the stage by director Petr Gazdík and his team – Dan Kalousek and Ema Mikešková will be the conductors and authors of the musical score, while František Šterbák and Daniel Kyzlink will take care of the musical arrangement, Emil Konečný will design the stage, Eliška Ondráčková Lupačová will be the author of the costume designs, Hana Kubinová will be the choreographer and Karel Škarka will be the choirmaster, all under the dramaturgical supervision of Klára Latzková and Miroslav Ondra. The cast will include Rastislav Gajdoš or Milan Němec, Kristýna Daňhelová or Svetlana Janotová, Alena Antalová or Lenka Bartolšicová, Libor Matouš or Ondřej Studénka, Jiří Mach or Petr Štěpán, Johana Gazdíková or Marta Matějová and many others. The world premiere will take place on 24 September 2022 at 19:00 on the MdB Music Stage.
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