At the turn of October and November, EOC will performed at the Penitentiary Chapel at Cejl, MEZ Židenice or the Labyrinth underneath the Vegetable Market. Compositions of Dmitri Shostakovich, Ondřej Kyas and others will be played.
The festival will open with two poetic plays by Pavel Drábek Everyman čili Kdokoli and Leviatan with songs by Ondřej Kyas for chamber ensembles. The production directed by Tomáš Studený will premiere in the underground space beneath the Vegetable Market. The programme also includes the premiere of the full-length chamber opera by Ondřej Kyas for the libretto of Pavel Drábek entitled Čaroděj a jeho sluha (Wizard and His Servant) custom-written for three performers that will be performed in the former factory building MEZ in Brno-Židenice. Kristiana Belcredi will be featured in the role of the diversionary director for the first time. The author of the scene design is Sylva Marková, similarly as in previous diversionary productions. Shostakovich's song about death will be played for the first time in the unique and raw spaces of the chapel of the former penitentiary at Cejl. Solo parts will again be performed by Lucie Kašpárková and Jan Šťáva, Ensemble Opera Diversa and OK Percussion Duo conducted by Gabriela Tardonová. The mini festival will come to a close with a performance of a requiem of the little-known Czech Baroque composer Jiří Melcelius, a contemporary of Adam Michna, on the day of the Remembrance of the Dead. The mini festival will take place from 26 October to 2 November 2016.
The Ensemble Opera Diversa was founded in 1999, originally with the intention of performing pieces by playwright Pavel Drábek and composer Ondřej Kyas. In 2005, a chamber orchestra was founded within the association. Jan Bělohlávek is the concert master and Gabriela Rardonová is the chief conductor. In 2009, the Versus chamber choir, whose choirmaster Vladimír Maňas is also a dramaturgist of the Ensemble Opera Diversa, became part of the ensemble.
