Antonín Dvořák In 1853, Karel Jaromír Erben published the ballad The Wedding Shirt as part of his famous collection The Bouquet, which is a well-known and inseparable part of Czech culture. Thirty-two years later, Antonín Dvořák ingeniously transformed it into an impressive cantata, full of lovely duets and powerful choral passages, in which he sought adequate musical means to express deep longing, dramatic tension and pure love in a rigorous respect for the rhythmicity of the Czech language. The result is a complex work that far exceeds the national revivalist limits of Erben's oeuvre. In 2026, the DFXŠ Opera Company will perform The Wedding Shirts as a unique stage work, full of deep human longings for a life of love and the related inner conflicts that arise whenever we fall in love with someone who is not right for us, as happens to the Girl and the Death Eater in The Wedding Shirts. Finding a way out of our own blindness and looking beyond the horizon is possible through a conscious rediscovery of self and faith in God or in self. The production uses smoke effects and features a gunshot. The opera is presented in the original Czech with Czech and German subtitles.
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Bouquet.
This is a continuous multi-day event
