• Saturday 9/10 | 19.00
  • Janáček Theatre

opera

Jenůfa

National Theatre Brno

Festival preview.
conductor: Jakub Klecker
director: Zdeněk Kaloč

  • Sunday 24/10 | 17.00
  • Janáček Theatre

opera

Jenůfa

National Theatre Brno

Festival preview.
conductor: Jakub Klecker
director: Zdeněk Kaloč

  • Tuesday 16/11 | 19.00
  • Mahen Theatre

opera

The Makropulos Affair

Helikon-Opera Moscow

Festival pre-opening.
conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
director: Dmitry Bertman

  • Wednesday 17/11 | 16.00
  • New Town Hall

chamber concert

Opening ceremony of the festival

Chamber Opera of JAMU

  • Wednesday 17/11 | 19.00
  • Janáček Theatre

ballet and opera

Sinfonietta, The Excursion of Mr. Brouček to the Moon

National Theatre Brno

Sinfonietta
conductor: Jaroslav Kyzlink
choreography: Jiří Kylián (3rd act)
The Excursion of Mr. Brouček to the Moon
(festival premiere of the original 1917 version) conductor: Jaroslav Kyzlink
director: Pamela Howard

  • Thursday 18/11 | 16.00
  • Janáček Theatre (foyer)

vernissage

Leoš Janáček – portrait photos

  • Thursday 18/11 | 19.00
  • Monastery at Mendel’s Square

clinic and chamber concert

Selection of archive compositions from Janáček’s studies

Ken Shifrin trio

  • Thursday 18/11 | 19.00
  • Mahen Theatre

play

The Makropulos Affair

Klicpera Theatre

director: Věra Herajtová

  • Thursday 18/11 | 19.00
  • Barka Theatre

scenic project

Nursery Rhymes; Youth; The Diary of One Who Disappeared

Chamber Opera of JAMU

Nursery Rhymes, Youth
conductor: Vít Spilka
director: David Kříž
The Diary of One Who Disappeared
conductor: Ema Mikešková
director: Renata Fraisová

  • Friday 19/11 | 19.00
  • Janáček Theatre

ballet and opera

Sinfonietta, The Excursion of Mr. Brouček to the Moon

National Theatre Brno

Sinfonietta
conductor: Jaroslav Kyzlink
choreography: Jiří Kylián (3rd act)
The Excursion of Mr. Brouček to the Moon
(a world premiere of the original 1917 version)
conductor: Jaroslav Kyzlink
director: Pamela Howard

  • Saturday 20/11 | 10.00
  • Leoš Janáček Memorial

matinée

Selection from Janáček’s piano compositions

Jan Jiraský – piano

  • Saturday 20/11 | 15.00
  • Janáček Theatre

comic opera

I. Medek, A. Piňos, M. Štědroň: Cage is the Thing, or Annals of the Avant-Garde Open Wide

Ensemble Opera Diversa

conductor: Gabriela Tardonová
director: Tomáš Studený

  • Saturday 20/11 | 17.00
  • Janáček Theatre

comic opera

I. Medek, A. Piňos, M. Štědroň: Cage is the Thing, or Annals of the Avant-Garde Open Wide

Ensemble Opera Diversa

conductor: Gabriela Tardonová
director: Tomáš Studený

  • Saturday 20/11 | 19.00
  • Reduta Theatre (Mozart’s Hall)

alternative concert

Moravian folk poetry in jazz arrangements

Zuzana Lapčíková kvintet

  • Saturday 20/11 | 19.00
  • Barka Theatre

scenic project

Nursery Rhymes; Youth; The Diary of One Who Disappeared

Chamber Opera of JAMU

Nursery Rhymes, Youth
conductor: Vít Spilka
director: David Kříž
The Diary of One Who Disappeared
conductor: Ema Mikešková
director: Renata Fraisová

  • Sunday 21/11 | 10.00
  • JAMU Concert hall

matinée

Winner of the International Janáček interpretation competition

  • Sunday 21/11 | 16.00
  • Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady at Mendel Square

spiritual concert

L. Janáček: Our Father, Hear Me, O Lord!, A. Schönberg: A Survivor from Warsaw

Prague Philharmonic Choir, Kateřina Chroboková (organ)

  • Sunday 21/11 | 19.00
  • Janáček Theatre (foyer)

multimedia project

Homage to Atonality and Abstractionism

Anna Maria Pammer (soprano), Siegfried Meuser (piano), Zemlinsky Quartet

A programme inspired by the 1911 Munich concert, featuring compositions by Arnold Schönberg, excerpts from his correspondence with Wassily Kandinský, and paintings by both artists.

  • Monday 22/11 | 15.00
  • JAMU Concert Hall

musical meeting

Musical meeting with Iva Bittová

Iva Bittová

  • Monday 22/11 | 19.00
  • Besední dům, Concert Hall

alternative concert

Moravská folk poetry

Iva Bittová and Škampa Quartet

  • Tuesday 23/11 | 19.00
  • Janáček Theatre

opera

Káťa Kabanová

National Theatre Prague

conductor: Tomáš Netopil
director: Robert Wilson
Under negotiation.

  • Wednesday 24/11 | 19.00
  • Reduta Theatre (Mozart’s Hall)

chamber concert

String quartets by L. Janáček and E. Schulhoff

Henschelquartett

  • Thursday 25/11 | 10.00
  • JAMU Concert Hall

workshop

Workshop with Roland Pöntinen

Roland Pöntinen – piano

  • Thursday 25/11 | 19.00
  • Reduta Theatre (Mozart’s Hall)

chamber concert

A. Schönberg: Transfigured Night, A. Webern: Two Pieces for cello and piano

Pontinen Trio

  • Thursday 25/11 | 19.00
  • Mahen Theatre

opera

L. Janáček: Šárka, B. Martinů: Ariadna

National Moravian-Silesian Theatre

conductor: Jan Šrubař
director: Rocc

  • Friday 26/11 | 17.00
  • Leoš Janáček Memorial

vernissage

Druhotvary II (interpretations of Janáček’s scores)

  • Friday 26/11 | 19.00
  • Husa na provázku

play

B. Friel: Intimate Letters

Kolowrat Theatre

director: Lucie Bělohradská

  • Friday 26/11 | 19.00
  • Reduta Theatre

opera

Šárka

National Theatre Brno

A world premiere of the original 1887 version.
conductor: Ondrej Olos
director: Kristiana Belcredi

  • Saturday 27/11 | 10.00
  • JAMU Concert hall

matinée

Selection of Janáček’s pieces for piano, songs and opera arias

Maroš Klátik (piano), Michaela Jančaříková (soprano)

  • Saturday 27/11 | 19.00
  • Janáček Theatre

opera

A. Berg: Lulu

Theater Essen

conductor: Stefan Soltesz
director: Dietrich Hilsdorf

  • Sunday 28/11 | 10.00
  • Besední dům

matinée

V. Kaprálová, A. Schnittke: String Quartets

Kaprálová Quartet

  • Sunday 28/11 | 16.00
  • Reduta Theatre

opera

Šárka (the original 1887 version)

National Theatre Brno

conductor: Ondrej Olos
director: Kristiana Belcredi

  • Sunday 28/11 | 19.00
  • Janáček Theatre

concert

Closing ceremony (Janáček, Schönberg, Berg)

Brno Philharmonics, National Theatre Brno, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno

site‐specific performance: Karine Guizzo
conductor: Zsolt Nagy
piano: Kirill Gerstein
choirmaster: Petr Fiala

Last updated on 4/9/2010.

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