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Juliette | DJKT in Pilsen
Sunday 12 January 2025, 4.00 pm
New Stage, J. K. Tyl Theatre, Pilsen, CZ
Bohuslav MARTINŮ: Juliette (The Key to Dreams), lyric opera in 3 acts, H 253
Creators
Libretto: Bohuslav Martinů after drama by Georges Neveux
Musical staging: Jiří Štrunc
Conducotr: Jiří Štrunc / Jakub Zicha
Director: Martin Otava
Set Designer: Daniel Dvořák
Costume Designer: Dana Haklová
Lights: Antonín Pfleger
Video Projection: Ondřej Brýna
Dramaturgy: Vojtěch Frank
Choirmaster: Jakub Zicha
Assistant director: Michal Lieberzeit, Vojtěch Jansa
Assistant conductor: Jan Mára (HAMU)
Music preparation: Maxim Averkiev, Martin Marek, Jan Mára
Show rigging: Tomáš Pintér – AirGym Art Company
Hint: Viktorie Šimůnková
Stage manager: Petra Kuldová Tolašová
Persons and actors
Juliette: Soňa Godarská / Olga Jelínková
Michel: Tomáš Kořínek / Richard Samek
Commissar, Official: Michal Bragagnolo / Jan Maria Hájek
Man with a helmet, Seller of memories, Beggar: Dominik Klapka / Jiří Kubík
Man in the window, Grandfather Youth, Convict: Andrij Charlamov / Jevhen Šokalo
Forest guard, Railway engineer: Josef Jordán / Martin Švimberský
Small Arab, Young sailor, Messenger: Andrea Frídová / Kateřina Vogelová
Woman selling birds and poultry: Lucie Hájková / Radka Sehnoutková
Woman selling fish: Ivana Klimentová / Jana Piorecká
Fortune teller: Jana Foff Tetourová / Jana Piorecká
Old Arab, Grandfather, Old sailor: Miro Bartoš / Jakub Hliněnský
Grandmother: Ivana Šaková
Šéf, Nightwatchman: Rostislav Florian / Martin Švimberský
DJKT Opera Orchestra, DJKT Opera Chorus
Piano: Maxim Averkiev / Martin Marek
English horn: Marta Neumannová / Ela Polívková
Accordion: Petra Křížková / Hana Matějková
Even in an opera you can let yourselves be carried you away on the waves of dreams and imagination. This masterpiece of Bohuslav Martinů urges us to do so. The Central Bureau of Dreams, where the story is set, is opened for everyone. All you need is enter it!
It has been almost fifty years since Martinů’s Juliette was last performed in Pilsen. It is one of the best modern Czech operas. The composer wrote his own libretto, based on a play by French writer and playwright Georges Neveux. Its famous premiere took place at the National Theatre in Prague on 16 March 1938 under the baton of Václav Talich. It was directed by Jindřich Honzl and the stage was designed by František Muzika.
Its subtitle, The Key to Dreams, aptly expresses its story, which takes place in a small seaport town, where a young bookseller, Michel, arrives from Paris. He is enchanted by a beautiful girl, Juliette. He falls for her so much that he does not manage to leave the town in time and becomes one of its inhabitants, who have lost their memory.
The production was financially supported by the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation.
More information: https://www.djkt.eu/en/repertoire/juliette-2024