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1 × 6 Fairy-tales

František Hrubín / MOPED

A playful, interactive version of a production that involves children audience members in what is happening on stage. more

Armida

Antonín Dvořák

After the success of the fairy-tale opera Rusalka, Antonín Dvořák was looking for another opera libretto that he could compose music for. more

Billy Elliot, the musical

Elton John / Lee Hall

This exceptional English musical based on the film of the same name tells the riveting story of an eleven-year-old boy, Billy, who longs to utilize his extraordinary dance talent. more

Braniboři v Čechách

Bedřich Smetana

Branický zázrak

Jan Svěrák / Tomáš Klus

Candide

Leonard Bernstein

The famous American composer, conductor, and an avid promoter of music Leonard Bernstein is also the author of one opera and several musicals, of which the West Side Story, staged in Pilsen for the first time in May 2017, belongs to the best that has ever been created in this genre. more

Carmen

Georges Bizet

Bizet’s Carmen belongs to the greatest repertoire keepers of opera theatres. The libretto was written by an experienced duo of H. Meilhac and L. Halévy upon Prosper Mérimée’s novel that was based on a true story. more

Company

Stephen Sondheim / George Furth

Get under the yoke of marriage or remain single? Will Robert find the answer to this question? An intelligent and entertaining musical with lively music, viewing relationships honestly and humorously. Can you recognise yourselves in any of the situations? more

Consent

Nina Raine

“Is there anything behind which there is no sex?” more

Crutches and knives

Anita Augustin

Psychedelic road story of forever young old ladies. This dynamic grotesque, which has been dramatised by the author of the novel, presents four charming elderly ladies who are facing jail. more

Cutting it short

Bohumil Hrabal

‘That Francin is a ball of nerves, he should, according to Mr Batista's file, wash his genitals with lukewarm water.’ more

Czech Christmas Mass

Jakub Jan Ryba

The Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba has become an integral part of Czech Christmas celebrations. We can hear it in every church, in concert halls, we know it by heart; we love its pure simplicity. more

Čertova stěna

Bedřich Smetana

Dalibor

Bedřich Smetana

Oblíbená Smetanova opera Dalibor vznikla po Braniborech v Čechách a Prodané nevěstě. Autoři líčí v idealizované podobě příběh z historických kronik o rytíři Daliboru z Kozojed, který byl nespravedlivě odsouzen a uvězněn ve věži na Pražském hradě, později po něm nazývané Daliborka. more

Dvě vdovy

Bedřich Smetana

Edith - the Sparrow from the Suburbs

Libor Vaculík / Petr Malásek / Václav Kopta

The production charts the life journey of Edith Piaf from her first songs in the streets of Paris through famous cabarets to her triumphant performance at Olympia. more

Go back for murder

Agatha Christie

Who committed the murder? Was the real murderer sentenced? A remarkable staging (1960) of Agatha Christie’s well-known novel Five Little Pigs, in which a young woman, Carla, wants to clear her mother’s name. more

Green Day's American Idiot

Green Day / Billie Joe Armstrong / Michael Mayer

The unique space of the Small Scene will see an extraordinary event – the Czech premiere of the American Idiot, a musical created to the eponymous album of Green Day, an American punk-rock band. more

Heart

Richard Ševčík / Jan Rejent / Pavel Lochman

In 2022 it will be exactly 100 years since the birth of South African heart surgeon, professor CHRISTIAAN NEETHLING BARNARD, who performed a successful heart transplant in 1967; the very first in the history. Despite the fact it’s been more than 50 years since this astounding surgical intervention, many ethical and religious dilemmas still persists. You can’t donate your heart and still live on… more

Christmas in the desert

Petr Pýcha / Jaroslav Rudiš

At the time this brochure goes to print, the above-mentioned writers and playwrights are writing the play directly for the actors of Pilsen drama ensemble. They are not working together for the first time, they have won many awards at home and abroad for their literary achievements. more

I am the Princess of Fools

Lenka Nota

The life of one of the most famous Czech writers as a chamber opera. more

Jesus Christ Superstar

Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber

The legendary rock musical finally in Pilsen! Let yourselves be captivated by this phenomenal work, which has fascinated millions of viewers of several generations all over the world. more

Juliette

Bohuslav Martinů

Even in an opera you can let yourselves be carried you away on the waves of dreams and imagination. This masterpiece of Bohuslav Martinů urges us to do so. The Central Bureau of Dreams, where the story is set, is opened for everyone. All you need is enter it! more

La clemenza di Tito

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“My Praguers understand me.” That is probably Mozart’s most famous statement expressing his affection for the Czech lands and their inhabitants. It was for them that he composed his beautiful opera about Roman Emperor Titus on the occasion of the coronation of Leopold II. more

Libertin

Stephen Jeffreys

“You will not like me. No, really, you will not. Gentlemen will envy me and ladies will be appalled.” The sarcastic historical play from the Enlightenment era tells the story of John Wilmont, known as the Earl of Rochester, a cunning and talented rascal who had lived his short and wild life as a medieval rock star. more

Lindauer? Pākehā!

Renata Putzlacher

An Unusual Story, Or From Pilsen To The End Of The World! more

Manon

Jules Massenet

The most famous opera version of the story of the fated but unfulfilled love between Manon and the Chevalier des Grieux. In spite of adversities and mishaps, the bond of their love remains strong. more

My Fair Lady

Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe

Based on Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw and film by Gabriel Pascal Legendary musical back on DJKT stage more

Nabucco

Giuseppe Verdi

When Verdi experienced booing during the performance of his comical opera King for a Day, he decided to never write an opera again. more

Nutcracker

Petr Iljič Čajkovskij

Ballet fairy-tale based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story A Christmas story and a dream about Prince Nutcracker and the Mice comes to life in our theatre at the time of the most festive time of the year. The new adaptation of the well-known classical ballet will celebrate the 130th anniversary since its first staging in the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre. more

People, Places & Things

Duncan Macmillan

A story from the life of Emma, which may happen to each one of us. Or, are you so sure it could not happen to you? Everyone has certainly found themselves in an “on the edge” situation. And this is exactly where Emma is right now. Follow her struggle to find herself. more

Plzeňský pověsti

Milan Benedikt Karpíšek

Puss in Boots

Jiří Teml

This renewed production of the popular fairy-tale opera with fresh and imaginative music by a leading Czech composer takes you to places where the human and the animal worlds meet. more

Quo vadis

Sylvie Bodorová

In the theatre season 2021/2022 the opera ensemble of DJKT in Pilsen will present a world premiere of Quo vadis by the Czech composer Sylvie Bodorová, which she had written directly for the Pilsen opera house. more

Radúz and Mahulena

Julius Zeyer / Josef Suk

The famous poetic fairy-tale drama by the Czech author and playwright Julius Zeyer from 1896 had its premiere staging in the National Theatre in Prague just two years after its publishing. Since then it has become a stable piece regularly acted at various scenes across the country. more

Richard III

William Shakespeare

“But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, nor made to court an amorous looking-glass...” more

Sleeping beauty

P. I. Čajkovskij

So it is

Georges Feydeau

Italian writer and dramatist Luigi Pirandello, holder of the Nobel Prize for literature, belongs to the classics of modern drama and his comedy So It Is (If You Think So) is one of his most popular and most frequently presented pieces. more

Spanish fly

Franz Arnold / Ernst Bach

A less known but excellent comedy from the higher society of early 20th century targeting the middle-class morale issues will be the last drama premiere of season 2019/2020. more

Swan Lake

Petr Iljič Čajkovskij

If ballet has a notorious title in general awareness, it is undoubtedly Swan Lake by PI Tchaikovsky. more

Tajemství

Bedřich Smetana

The bartered bride

Bedřich Smetana

Since the first production in Pilsen in 1869, The Bartered Bride has never disappeared for a longer period of time from the opera repertoire and is therefore very well known to our audience. Generations of Pilsen opera singers have matured in the roles in this opera. more

The Bat

Johann Strauss

Many classical operettas have beautiful music, but the plot is too naive for today's viewer. more

The Chattertooth Eleven

Eduard Bass

“Once upon a time there was a poor peasant named Chattertooth, and he had eleven sons. In his poverty he did not know what to do with them and so he had made them a football team.” more

The Kiss

Bedřich Smetana

“A full sister of The Bartered Bride.” That is how one of the most popular operas by the famous Czech composer could be characterised. more

The Little Mermaid

Petr Hora / Marika Mikanová

The supernal fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen in a ballet version is back at the Pilsen Theatre. more

The Little Prince

Jiří Pokorný / Gabriela Vermelho

This ballet based on the famous book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry views the world through a child’s eyes before it becomes an adult. more

The Makropulos affair

Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček belongs to the most respected composers of the previous century. His works are presented by leading opera houses worldwide. more

The merry widow

Franz Lehár

The Merry Widow was the first Lehár’s global success. Without exaggeration, it can be said that every music number in this operetta is a little musical jewel. more

The taming of the shrew

Jan Kučera

'Who better recipe knows how to tame a shrew, they should tell me! I'd be grateful.' more

The Truth

Florian Zeller

A comedy about infidelity in which one lie follows another more

Tchaikovsky

Anna Vita

A new performance for the Pilsen ballet ensemble tells the story of the brilliant composer’s complicated life, in which the moments of happiness and fame alternate with pain and desire for love. more

To Be or Not to Be

Nick Whitby

“There’s no reason why I should lose my nerve!” A comedy from the area of theatre in which the actors’ lives are dead serious. more

Too Expensive Poison

Lucy Prebble

Is it possible to see justice? Perhaps even in such a grotesque cabaret of contemporary evil it is mission impossible. more

War of Goats

Dalibor Bárta / Václav Bárta st.

A little boy’s story on the background of the great history more

What about a wedding, prince?

Jiří Chalupa / Jiří Zmožek / Zdeněk Borovec

A musical fairytale for the whole family based on the popular story about prince David who is forced by his parents to chose a bride. more

Witches of Salem

Arthur Miller

The world-renowned historical thriller was written by Arthur Miller, the classic of modern American drama, and it is based on a true story – one of the most publicized witch trials of all time. It took place in 1692 in the isolated village of Salem in Massachusetts. more

Zápisník zmizelého

Leoš Janáček

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