This year's autumn with Diversa will offer a busy programme in which all Ensemble Opera Diversa’s components are equally represented. The autumn programme will begin with a day-long happening to mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of the prominent architect Bohuslav Fuchs. As part of its series of concerts, the ensemble will perform at the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival and the Moravian Autumn, as well as making a guest appearance in Žďár nad Sázavou.
In the second half of autumn, the orchestra will play a church concert and a thematically unified programme that will see the orchestra return to the Convent of the Brothers Hospitallers. The opera branch of the ensemble has prepared the Brno première of the new puppet opera Boža v říši loutek (Boža in the Realm of Puppets) and the renewed première of the popular opera Dýňový démon (The Pumpkin Demon). At the end of the year, the production of the full-length opera Druhé město (The Second City) will return to the Orlí Theatre. The autumn season will be rounded off by several concerts by the Ensemble Versus resident choir, which presents original programmes and inter-choir collaborations.
Autumn programme:
13 September 2025, 9:00 a.m., talk and concert at 7:00 p.m.
Masaryk Student Home, Brno
The Walls Resound, or Cheers, Mr. Fuchs!
BALGAVÁ - KYAS - ŠTĚDROŇ - WIESNER - ZÁVODSKÝ
An all-day programme to mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of architect Bohuslav Fuchs. In addition to an evening concert featuring five world premières of compositions inspired by Bohuslav Fuchs, visitors can look forward to a workshop, a music-theatre programme and a guided tour of Fuchs' buildings.
20 September 2025, 4:00 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Ivančice
The Book of Job: Contemplative Renaissance Motets
LASSO - LECHNER - MORALES - STOLTZER
A concert by the resident choir Ensemble Versus, led by Vladimír Maňas, featuring works setting texts from the Old Testament Book of Job, interwoven with choral chants and instrumental pieces for vihuela de mano performed by Kateřina Maňáková. The concert takes place as part of European Heritage Days.
20 September 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Mozart Hall of the Reduta Theatre, Brno
LVMF Prologue
STRAVINSKY - MARTINŮ - NOVÁK
Prologue to the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival featuring compositions based on neoclassicism penned by Igor Stravinsky, Bohuslav Martinů and Jan Novák. In addition to the Ensemble Opera Diversa orchestra, pianist Ayla Bártová and violinist Matteo Hager will also be performing, conducted by baton of Gabriela Tardonová.
02 October 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Zdar nad Sazavou Chateau
Composers of Silence: Diversa Quartet
NOVÁK - BURIAN - IŠTVAN - KAPR
A chamber concert by the Ensemble Opera Diversa string quartet in the beautiful fresco hall of Žďár nad Sázavou Chateau as part of the Light and Shadow subscription series. The concert is preceded by a discussion with the musicians about the context of the programme.
14 October 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Fait Gallery, Brno
Moravian Autumn: Jóhann Jóhannsson: IBM 1401
JÓHANNSSON
The Czech première of the music and dance work IBM 1401, A Userʼs Manual by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, which centres around the idea of the computer as a personified device, distinctively guided through a close harmony of music and modern dance as means of expression. The musical side of things will be shared by Úlfur Eldjárn (electronics) and the Diversa orchestra led by Gabriela Tardonová, accompanied by dancer Erna Ómarsdóttir.
21 October 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Church of the Assumption (Jesuit church), Brno
Marian Hymns
BARKELEY - BRITTEN - DURUFLÉ - LEIGHTON - MACMILLAN - PÄRT -
POULENC
A concert by the Ensemble Versus resident choir led by Patrik Buchta with compositions setting prayers and antiphons with Marian themes to music. Works by composers from France, Estonia and Great Britain will be accompanied by organist Lukáš Dvořák and reciter Kateřina Křivánková.
02 November 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Augustinian Abbey Refectory, Brno
The Book of Job: Contemplative Renaissance Motets
LASSO - LECHNER - MORALES - STOLTZER
A Brno reprise of the September concert by Ensemble Versus. In addition to Kateřina Maňáková on lute and vihuela de mano, this time the choir will be accompanied by Filip Hrubý on portative organ.
04 November 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Church of Blessed Mary Restituta, Brno-Lesná
Night Prayers
ZEMEK-NOVÁK - KANČELI - BERGER
The series of church concerts returns to the church in Lesná, this time conducted by Gabriela Tardonová, with clarinetist Jiří Mráz and harpist Dominika Kvardová. The world première of the evening is Concerto da chiesa for harp and chamber ensemble by Pavel Zemek-Novak, which will be accompanied by two Czech premières.
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