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TZ Operni Sezona14 15 AJ PRESS RELEASE Mgr. SILVIA HRONCOVÁ Director of Opera The National Theatre opens its opera season with Fibich and Strauss Prague, 24 June 2014 The National Theatre will present twelve operatic premieres on its four stages during its the 2014/2015 season. The dramaturgy includes various chapters of the world and Czech operas – from the Mozart's last piece The Magic Flute to contemporary authors. "The greatest desires of our spectators are new opera productions of high musical and directorial quality. With the high number of premieres, we want to revive our repertoire and also fulfil the demands of our audience. Several upcoming operas have never been performed on the stages of the National Theatre or have been staged long ago. Many of these are in the hands of young Czech artists, but in the case of opera director Mariusz Treliński, this is a renowned European director with a unique poetic style and distinctive creative voice. The State Opera will, for the first time thanks to Salome, enter into co-production with the Polish National Opera Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. In the coming season, we want to prove that Prague remains to be a European metropolis by offering a total of 44 opera productions, an attractive dramaturgy and excellent artistic performances," says the Director of the National Theatre Opera and the State Opera Silvia Hroncová. "The artistic director of a theatre or opera house may, in his first season, go in various directions. I choose the ‘Morávek way’. When Vladimir Morávek took over the artistic direction of Klicpera’s Regional Theatre in Hradec Králové, preparation of five new productions over the next three months was among his first decision. At the National Theatre and State Opera there are dozens of extremely talented and hard working artists and twelve premieres in ten months will enable them to fight for the audience and convince them of their best condition. Tannhäuser and The Cunning Little Vixen are the best examples of artistic satisfaction," says Artistic Director of the National Theatre Opera and the State Opera Petr Kofroň. "In addition to strong representation of Czech opera titles and great operatic repertoire, my admiration for the works of Russian writers is visible - we will present Shostakovich and Mussorgsky. For the ‘searching audience’ we will then offer projects on the New Stage. We really cannot be blamed for not willing to take a risk. But without risk there is no tension or surprise, and these certainly are one of the key prerequisites for artistic quality," adds Petr Kofroň. "I am delighted that we can invite the audience for a future season full of magnificent operas cast by exceptional vocal personalities. Personally, I look forward to Gun-Brit Barkmin’s Salome, Stefan Kocan’s Mefisto, Jaroslav Březina’s Witch, Veronika Dzhioeva’s and Anda-Louise Bogza’s Lady Macbeth, Jana Kurucová’s Carmen, Simona Houda Šaturová’s Gilda, Eva Urbanová’s Amneris, Olga Romanko’s Aida, Christina Vasileva’s Leonora, Vincent Schirrmacher’s Duke and finally of course Alžběta Poláčková’s Rusalka," the State Opera's music director Martin Leginus lists only a few of the many interesting soloists cast in the productions and adds: " We want to convince the public that we really do care for each performance." Národní divadlo Ostrovní 1, 112, 30 Praha 1, Česká republika, www.narodni-divadlo.cz T +420 224 901 742, [email protected] IČ 00023337, Bankovní spojení: KB Praha 1, č. ú.: 939931/0100 PRESS RELEASE Mgr. SILVIA HRONCOVÁ Director of Opera The National Theatre The first premiere in the upcoming season will be the last written opera by Zdeněk Fibich The Fall of Arkun on the stage of the National Theatre, promising in addition with deep inspiration by the work of Richard Wagner also a strong artistic voice of the leading Czech opera director Jiří Heřman. Conductor and current Music Director of the Norwegian National Opera John Fiore confirms his strong bond with the National Theatre and its orchestra in this production. His musical production of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs in Prague and his recent success with Parsifal three years ago is a guarantee of an extraordinary encounter for the audience on the occasion of the Year of Czech Music. "Fibich’s last opera is a thrilling musical composition evoking the clash of two worlds without mutual tolerance. The fall of a mystic temple in the middle of the Cretaceous rocks on the rugian coast is a symbolic image of the fall of man, who on his journey through life consciously denies love and becomes a victim of himself, of his ego," explains the main theme of The Fall Arkun director Jiří Heřman. The production will premiere on 9 and 10 October 2014 at the National Theatre. In addition the second premiere of the National Theatre, the partially-staged opera and only once performed will be from a Czech author. Alois Hába composed The New Earth for the National Theatre, but the planned premiere in November 1936 was changed and eventually cancelled. The controversial reflection on the creation of collective farms in the Soviet Union, composed to the libretto by Ferdinand Pujman, will be directed by Miroslav Bambušek and conducted by Artistic Director of the Opera Petr Kofroň. It will finally be seen in its entirety at the National Theatre on 12 December 2014. Apart from The Fall of Arkun, this is yet another important contribution of the National Theatre to the Year of Czech Music. After more than five years a Russian opera returns to the Prague opera stage. On 26 and 29 March 2015 Boris Godunov by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky will have its premiere and will be directed by a representative of the youngest generation of Czech opera Linda Keprtová. After the enthusiastic reception of her efforts by the audiences in Plzeň, Ostrava and Košice, Keprtová, only thirty-two years old, will showcase her debut at the National Theatre. Boris Godunov will be musically prepared again by Petr Kofroň, Artistic Director of the Opera the author of the concept of profiling our first scene on the Czech and Slavic opera repertoire and premiere stage. Showcasing his operatic debut on 14 and 16 May, 2015 will be one of today’s most prominent Czech theatre directors Daniel Špinar. Janáček’s opera From the House of the Dead is the author's third piece in the current repertoire of the National Theatre. Musical preparation will be taken over by Robert Jindra. "The House of the Dead is a matter of the heart for me. As in previous operas, here Janáček creates a unique and original musical language, with new means of expression," says Jindra. "I am very pleased that we managed once again to bring Štefan Národní divadlo Ostrovní 1, 112, 30 Praha 1, Česká republika, www.narodni-divadlo.cz T +420 224 901 742, [email protected] IČ 00023337, Bankovní spojení: KB Praha 1, č. ú.: 939931/0100 PRESS RELEASE Mgr. SILVIA HRONCOVÁ Director of Opera Margita for the role of Filka Morozov to the National Theatre, who in this role reaps great recognition worldwide and performed it also on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. For me personally and for the entire company the staging of this Janáček’s opera epilogue brings a huge challenge," adds Robert Jindra. A new co-production of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava and the National Theatre will be the last opera Filoktétés by composer Jan Klusák, musical preparation by Marko Ivanović. Klusák’s music returns to the National Theatre after eleven years, in 2002-2004 his chamber works Report to the Academy, and Bertram and Mescalinda were heard in the Theatre Kolowrat for a total of fifteen, more precisely seventeen times. Filoktétés will be presented in Prague on 23 May, 2015 as part of the International Music Festival Prague Spring. The Estates Theatre The Opera premiere in the upcoming season at the Estates Theatre will be The Magic Flute in its original German language version on 5 and 7 February, 2015. Directed by Vladimír Morávek and set design by Miroslav Huptych and Martin Ondrúš. The last production by David Radok in 2001 in Czech language had a total of 220 reprises and is one of Mozart’s most popular operas staged in Prague. The Magic Flute will be musically prepared by the National Theatre conductor Zbyněk Müller. The State Opera This year's 150th anniversary of the birth of musical genius Richard Strauss will be remembered by the very first premiere of the new season at the State Opera with the composer's most often globally performed title Salome . Internationally acclaimed opera director and artistic director of the Teatr Wielki Polish National Opera in Warsaw Mariusz Treliński will prepare Salome in his Czech debut, along with acclaimed Slovak set designer Boris Kudlička and world-renowned lighting designer Felice Ross. "Salome, of course, offers various interpretations. In my opinion it is a well known family story with very specific and complicated relationships between its members based on crimes committed years ago, " explains director Mariusz Treliński. According to him, it is Herod's revocation of power over from his brother, his marriage to wife Herodias and very possibly an incestuous relationship with Salome . "For me, the crucial moment of the opera is Salome´s dance, which brings the story to her childhood and reveals complicated relationship between her and Herod. From now on everything leads to the irreversible end, " says director Mariusz Treliński. After premieres on 23 and 26 October 2014 he will move with his production team to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he will make his debut with Tchaikovsky’s Jolanta and Bartók’s Bluebeard castle, which are also a part of the live broadcasts of MET in HD.
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