Organization

Jihočeského divadelního festivalu

Conductor

Martin Peschík

Stage director

Tomáš Studený

Set designer

David Janošek

Costume designer

Eva Jiříkovská

Choreographic supervision

Lada Kysykova

Sergej Škalikov

Dramaturge

František Řihout

Chorus master

Martin Veselý

Rehearsal

Mikoláš Troup

Assistant of conductor

Vojtech Adamcik

Stage Manager

Michaela Freudenschussov

Singer

Soprano

Iva Hošpesová

Hospodská

Zuzana Zaimlová

Tenor

Přemysl Filous

Jirka

Baritone

Svatopluk Sem

Kalina

Bass

František Brantalík

Malina

Mezzo-soprano

Šárka Hrbáčková

Panna Róza

Lucie Kašpárková

Blaženka

Ondřej Koplík

Vít

Peter Malý

Josef Škarka

Bonifác

Ján Rusko

Skřivánek

Tomáš Maliniak

Mistr zednický

Peter Paleček

Duch frátera Barnabáše

Others

Sbor opery Jihočeského divadla

Orchestra

South Bohemian Theater Opera orchestra

Tajemství -  (The Secret)

České Budějovice

Czech Republic

Metropol House of Culture

Tajemství Smetana

Public

The Secret

Approved

Cituplná komedie o velkých i malých tajemstvích a hledání opravdových pokladů. Přenesená inscenace z Národního divadla moravskoslezského v Ostravě v hudebním...

A lyrical comedy about big and small secrets and searching for genuine treasures. The production has been transferred from the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Ostrava.

Composed by Bedřich Smetana when he was gravely ill (with a libretto by Eliška Krásnohorská), this was Smetana’s penultimate completed opera and is often regarded as his best stage work. Its power lies in its invincible temper, emotionality and extraordinary musicality. Smetana proved his ability to identify with every character and situation with an extraordinary understanding, and, by way of his music, to render the greatest internal sadness and pleasure, conflicts and passions. In this respect, he found a kindred spirit in Eliška Krásnohorská: “In the comicality, I always look for the deeper humour that is rooted in the enigmas of the emotion and in the human heart …“
The Secret is an opera about a rancorous man who is not able to face up to his grievance that results from his humiliation and bitterness due to unfulfilled love. And twenty years later, the way to reconciliation is overgrown will all kinds of thorns. There are old wrongs, accusations and spitefulness. It is only this descent into the darkness of the underground that forces Kalina to see the light and come to understand what his real and most valuable treasure is.
The production premiered at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava on 27 April and was successfully staged at Smetana’s Litomyšl festival on 24 June 2017.

English

The Secret by Smetana, From (2022/2022), Directed by Tomáš Studený,, Conductor Martin Peschík, Metropol House of Culture, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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