Janáček Brno 2024 | Vitka the Fated
Sunday 17 November 2024,
11.00 am
Reduta Theatre, Brno, CZ
Janáček Brno Festival 2024
Vitka the Fated (A Love Carol)
Music: Víťezslava Kaprálová, Bohuslav Martinů
The production was prepared by the Opera Studio of the Brno Conservatory in cooperation with the National Theatre Brno for the Janáček Brno 2024 International Opera and Music Festival.
Theme and music collage: Tomáš Krejčí
Script: Hana Mikolášková
Director: Alexandra Bolfová
Choreography: Ladislava Košíková
Musical staging: Tomáš Krejčí and Katarína Duchoňová
Vítězslava Kaprálová. Twenty-five compositional works, twenty-five years of life in interwar Europe. For many men, she was a femme fatale. She loved them, but her heart belonged to music above all else. Can a man choose his destiny or can he just succumb to it? And how does the history we are part of affect us? The life and love story of Czech composer and conductor Vítězslava Kapralová, whose journey ended too soon.
The musical-dramatic collage will feature a selection of works by Vitka Kapralová and her mentor and admirer Bohuslav Martinů (including excerpts from the opera Juliette), as well as quotations from authentic correspondence.
14 November 2024 premiéra
17 November 2024 reprise
More information: https://janacek-brno.cz/en/17-11-2024-brno-conservatory-opera-studio/