Prague Children's Opera

Jan Kučera: Gingerbread House (world premiere)

5 September 2020, 11:00am, New Stage, National Theatre, Prague Dvořák’s Prague International Music Festival Jan Kučera: Gingerbread House (world premiere of a children’s opera) Libretto: Ladislava Janků Smítková Directed by: Tereza Petrášková Children’s Opera Prague, music director: Anna Novotná-Pešková Following performances: 5 Oct, 21 Dec and 10 Jan 2021

Jiřina Marková-Krystlíková: Rusalenka (world premiere)

The 59th year of the Smetana’s Litomyšl music festival (Jun 16 – Jul 6) thought about its youngest spectators, too. It was for them that the festival staged a children opera performance Rusalenka by a well-known singer, pedagogue, and directress of the Prague children’s opera Jiřina Marková-Krystlíková (*1957). Commissioned by the festival, the work is based on Dvořák’s most famous opera. The … Read more