Jiří Gemrot: The Burying of Light (world premiere)

25 June 2022, 3:30pm, Smetana House, Litomyšl Smetana’s Litomyšl Jiří Gemrot: The Burying of Light. A cantata for narrator, baritone, mixed choir, string quartet and piano (world premiere) Libretto: Vojtěch Stříteský based on texts and poetry by Miloslav Bureš Jan Šťastný – recitation, Roman Hoza – baritone, Matouš Zukal – piano, Zemlinsky Quartet (František Souček, Petr … Read more

Jan Kučera, Jan Ryant Dřízal, Jiří Gemrot, Sylvie Bodorová: A Bohemian Pilgrim (world premiere)

15 June 2018, Castle Courtyard, Litomyšl Smetana’s Litomyšl A Bohemian Pilgrim, Cantata for narrator, baritone, children’s choir, mixed choir and orchestra to a libretto by Vojtěch Stříteský and poems by František Hrubín, Jiří Orten, Josef Václav Sládek, Josef Kainar, Karel Hlaváček, Josef Hora and Jaroslav Seifert (world premiere to a commission from the 60th year of the Smetana’s Litomyšl National Festival on … Read more