PROGRAMME

Repertoire

A German Requiem

Johannes Brahms / Francesco Annarumma

A renowned oratorio where death is separation but also access to unpredictable communication with the sources of being and infinity more

Bartering the bride

Bedřich Smetana

After their children are born, the parents agree on their future marriage. Only Jeník's cleverness and fearlessness contribute to the happy ending of the opera, in which „the good wins and true love triumphs." more

BIRDS OF A FEATHER (LA CAGE AUX FOLLES)

Jerry Herman / Harvey Fierstein

We are what we are! One of the most entertaining classical musicals of the last half-century will be performed in Pilsen for the first time. more

DEVIL'S WALL

Bedřich Smetana

A comic and romantic opera with timeless music by Bedřich Smetana. more

Dracula

Karel Svoboda / Zdeněk Borovec / Richard Hes

Who does not know hits like “You are my master” or “I know you are with me”? In the nearly thirty years since its creation, the original Czech musical, Dracula, loosely inspired by Bram Stoker's famous novel, has been seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers at home and abroad. more

GIUDITTA

Franz Lehár

"It was just a fairy tale." more

CHAPBOOK

Bohuslav Martinů

The beauty of dance, music and singing, from the roots of the Czech tradition which we draw on. Our ballet company joins the Year of Czech Music with a work that created in the 1930s, in a time of growing totalitarianism and looming crises. more

Let’s have a BALLet!

Movement is a manifestation of human life and dance is a guide to the cultural development of human society more

MASKERADE

Terry Pratchett

"It is said that if someone were to sit in box 8, a terrible disaster would happen." more

PHARAOH'S CURSE

Vojtěch Frank / Jakub Hojka

What can opera as a genre endure? And what would an opera about plundering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun look like? Is it possible to look for comedy in this story? more

Rabbit hole

David Lindsay-Abaire

An emotionally powerful family drama tells a story about a marriage that is undergoing a fundamental life test. Becca and Howie are growing apart. They were affected by one of the greatest family tragedies imaginable. more

Rebecca

Michael Kunze / Sylvester Levay

Based on Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name. A romantic mystery musical by the authors of Elisabeth more

Six

Toby Marlow / Lucy Moss

The duel of Henry VIII's six wives as a raucous pop concert! After its success on West End and Broadway, the current global megahit is guaranteed to set the audience of the Velké divadlo (Grand Theatre) in Pilsen on fire. We will be one of the first theatres to present it on the European continent. more

THE CLOSET

Francis Veber

A modern social satire about how an invisible person can suddenly become a social star more

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, OR A CRAZY DAY

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

“Those at the top are taking too many liberties.” more

THE TROUBADOUR

Giuseppe Verdi

A moving story of two brothers who were separated by fate, only to be reunited in the face of tragedy. more

THE VISIT

Anna Vita

Ballet adaptation of the tragicomedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt more

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Emily Brontëová

Hate is unfair. Love is even more so. The author died shortly after the publication of her only novel, which she signed with a male pseudonym in 1847. more

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