The current conception and realisation of the Janáček Brno festival has won the award of Czech Opera Professionals. The committee of the Musical Theatre Association, which organises the festival Opera, gave the Janáček festival the award for significant achievement in the field of musical theatre. The award was accepted by the director of the National Theatre Brno Martin Glaser and the Artistic Director of the Janáček Opera NdB Jiří Heřman. The award of the Opera festival director was won by Ensemble Opera Diversa for their staging of the opera by Ondřej Kyas and Pavel Drábek Čaroděj a jeho sluha.
“I think that our organiser, the city of Brno, would also deserve this prize. Without the founding impulse in the form of a decent budget for the festival, we simply would not have made it into the first league. In art the costs are after all similar to those in sport,” says the NdB director Martin Glaser and continues: “Of course no-one can take Janáček away from us, unless we were to pass up the huge opportunities linked to his name ourselves through our inaction. I believe that the wonderful programme for the festival in 2018, due out next week, will show that our festival was the rightful winner of this award.”
NdB will publish the programme for the 6th year of the festival Janáček Brno 2018 on Monday 13 November 2017 in the Reduta theatre before a concert from the cycle Preview. Works by Igor Stravinsky, Leoš Janáček and Bohuslav Martinů will be heard together with the Brno Contemporary Orchestra and the conductor Pavel Šnajdr will present the pianists Jan Jiraský and Daniel Weisner and the actors herci Soňa Červená, Štěpán Kaminský and Petr Bláha.
Also heading for Brno was Libuška – the prize of the festival director, won by Ensemble Opera Diversa. Čaroděj a jeho sluha (The Wizard and His Servant) is the fifth chamber opera by the duo of Drábek – Kyas. With this the festival director Lenka Šaldová at the same time recognised their search for a contemporary operatic language, and that in direct contact with sympathetic opera performers whose work with Ensemble Opera Diversa clearly helps even when entering onto the “big” opera stage.
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