To mark this important anniversary, the Brno Municipal Theatre will be presenting a selection of music that has appeared in the Music Theatre's repertoire over the past twenty years. Several times in September, a gala concert will be held to celebrate Twenty Years of the Music Theatre.
At the beginning of October 2024, it will be 20 years since the audience first took their seats in the new auditorium of the Music Theatre of the Brno Municipal Theatre, which was built as the most state-of-the-art theatre in Europe and is constantly adding more cutting-edge facilities to maintain and build on its high modern standards. Every year, new titles are added to the list of premières hosted here, ranging from classic musicals, large-scale drama productions and concerts to completely original works by contemporary artists created specifically for this theatre, as has been the plan since the very beginning. The celebration of this anniversary will be accompanied by a number of extraordinary events and significant achievements, including an exhibition and the publication of a comprehensive work on the history of the Music Theatre. The festivities honouring those two decades of the Music Theatre will culminate in a concert featuring a round-up of music and songs from titles that have been played out on its stage during its twenty-year history, performed by a large orchestra and members of the theatre.
In addition to the four performances of the aforementioned festive concert looking back directed by Petr Gazdík and performed by the members and orchestra of the theatre led by conductor Dan Kalousek, the celebrations, which will take place from 13 to 15 September 2024, will also include a lavish accompanying programme at the Brno Municipal Theatre Courtyard, admission to which will be free.
On Friday, 13 September 2024, after the concert, the Petr Gazdík Acoustic Band will perform in the Atrium Pod vínem.
Alan Novotný and Jakub Uličník will accompany the audience in the Theatre Courtyard all day long on Saturday, 14 September 2024. At 10:15 a.m., children from the MdB's Music School will present a concert performance entitled Musical Storm. Moderator Zdeněk Junák will welcome prominent members of the Brno Municipal Theatre - Alena Antalová, Zdena Herfortová, Stanislav Moša and Petr Štěpán - to a live broadcast of Czech Radio Brno from 2:00 p.m. Then there are the composers - Karel Cón, Zdenek Merta, Robin Schenk, Miloš Štědroň and Petr Ulrych, who have forged inseparable links (not only) with the MdB Music Theatre. From 4:30 p.m., the special musical programme Zdenek Merta at the Piano will feature, besides interviews with these artists, a number of famous melodies composed not only by those gentlemen and others, conducted by Miroslav Ondra and performed by leading soloists and the theatre orchestra. The Saturday will culminate in one of the celebratory concerts honouring Twenty Years of the Music Theatre, the first half of which will be broadcast live from 8:15 p.m. on Czech Television’s ČT Art channel and will also be broadcast on the LED screen in the Theatre Courtyard. The second half of the evening will include the christening of a new comprehensive publication dedicated to the Music Theatre's first twenty years.
On Sunday, 15 September 2024, at 11:30 a.m., there will be a fairy-tale performance by the Šumafuk Theatre entitled The Adventures of Freddy the Pillow. At 1:00 p.m., the Music School will repeat its performance in the Courtyard, while at 4:00 there will be an MdB Quiz, hosted by Lenka Janíková and Michal Isteník, which will see a team of audience members drawn from the winners of the MdB summer competition, which ran all summer on the theatre's social media, test their knowledge of the history of the Brno Municipal Theatre against a team of MdB actors made up of Zdena Herfortová, Erika Kubálková, Petra Šimberová, Pavla Vitázková, Patrik Bořecký, Jan Mazák, Karel Mišurec and Viktor Skála. There will also be music, this time performed by some of the young generation of our theatre’s actors, accompanied by Tomáš Zedek on the piano.
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