program: PROMĚNA (TRANSFORMATION) Jarek Cemerek PROMĚNA Choreography: Jarek Cemerek The opening dance prologue of the evening offers the audience a poetic entry into an open-air theatrical experience. The ballet ensemble’s choreography for Proměna explores a sensitive reflection on the variability of human life. It explores how experiences shape us, how our inner world and relationship to our surroundings change, and how every change carries the possibility of a new beginning, whether we realize it or not. Life is a constant process of transformation, composed of diverse, often disorganized, and previously unknown phases. In their interplay, the mystery of human destiny is born. How much good or evil is revealed in this discovery depends on each of us. We are never merely passive objects of this transformation, as it might sometimes seem. We are its part and its co-creators. Featuring the DFXŠ ballet. Bohuslav Martinů THE OPENING OF THE WELLS The Opening of the Wells by Bohuslav Martinů is a unique fusion of music, poetry, and a deep relationship to one's native region. The cantata was written in 1955 based on the text of poet Miloslav Bureš, whose verses capture the ancient custom of spring well-cleaning in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. Martinů, living in exile at the time, projected memories of the Czech landscape and a longing for spiritual purification into the work. The musical language of the piece is simple, clear, and sensitively connects folk inspirations with the author’s distinct compositional style. The Opening of the Wells is one of the pinnacles of B. Martinů's late work and still touches listeners today with its lyrical beauty, humanist message, and timeless symbolism of returning to the pure springs of life. Featuring DOS, Severáček solo Marin Bárta conductor Silvie Langrová directed by Linda Hejlová Keprtová intermission Carl Orff CARMINA BURANA Carmina Burana is one of the most significant vocal-instrumental works of the 20th century and simultaneously the pinnacle of the work of German composer Carl Orff. The inspiration for this cantata, composed between 1935–1936, became extensive collections of medieval secular poetry found in the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern in Bavaria. Orff set twenty-four texts to music, written mainly in Latin, but also in Middle High German and Old French. Their thematic scope ranges from celebrations of spring and nature to love lyrics and satirical reflections on human weaknesses, hedonism, and the fickleness of fate. Featuring the DFXŠ orchestra and choir, Severáček soloists Věra Poláchová Kavanová, Michal Lehotský, Martin Bárta CARMINA BURANA takes place in a covered riding hall in all weather conditions.
This is a continuous multi-day event