What to Expect
What can you look forward to?
- An original evening composed for Christmastime
- A unique concert of Christmas classical music with a spiritual theme combined with Renaissance poetry.
- The main performers dressed in period Renaissance costumes.
- The premises of the beautiful Baroque rebuilt church of St. Thomas, founded by King Wenceslas II in 1285, was first consecrated in 1315.
- A concert with unconventional dramatic dialogues in original Renaissance costumes using Christmas correspondence by the world-famous Renaissance poet Elizabeth Johanna Weston (2 November 1582 London - 23 November 1612 Prague) and Peter Vok of Rožmberk (1 October 1539 Český Krumlov - 6 November 1611 Třeboň).
Product Description
The premiere performance of the literary work of Elizabeth Johanna Weston (2-11-1582 London - 23-11-1612 Prague), the stepdaughter of Edward Kelly, a charming and scholarly poet admired by the public, in her time better known than Shakespeare.
This is a program conceived with accompanying words along with elaborate visual performances with themes of literary works by Shakespeare's contemporaries with actors in period Renaissance costumes.
The author of the adapted prose (presented according to the staging in both English and English), is the acclaimed and respected poet Elizabeth J. Weston, then well known throughout Europe.
She was born in England, but from the age of one and a half, when she was adopted by her stepfather, she lived with her mother and stepfather in Bohemia.This stepfather was Edward Talbot, a Czech knight of Imana, alchemist, and magician, well known to the contemporary public, who worked at the court of Emperor Rudolf II and at the court of William Rožmberk in Třeboň, or Edward Kelly.
The concert performance has a cast of +12 musicians, including an organ; 2 singers, and two dramatic roles in Renaissance costumes. The church has exceptional acoustics.
SOLOISTS:
Jeane Beanerd: soprano / soprano (Lyon, KFZF Prague / at ZFChPO Prague)
Jean Beanerd: bass/bass (Lyon, KFZF Praha/ at ZFChPO Prague)
guests of the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of Zdeněk Fibich Prague
Co-performers: Original Prague Salon Orchestra, at the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of Zdeněk Fibich Prague
Designed together with Original Prague Salon Orchestra, at the Zdenek Fibich Chamber Philharmonic
Orchestra Prague. (1st & 2nd violins, viola, cello, contrabass, flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, French horn, trombone, percussion, organ)
Soloists/singers:
Anežka Pokorná: Elizabeth Jeanne Weston - Westonie
Martin Šmejkal: Petr Vok z Rožmberka / Peter Wok von Rosenberg
Sborový oktet KFZF Praha / Choral octet of ZFChPO Prague
PROGRAM
J. Wittásek: Adeste fideles, soprano, bass, sborový oktet / Adeste fideles, soprano, bass, choral octet
J. J. Ryba: Česká mše vánoční / Kyrie, Gloria / Czech Christmas Mass
J. E. Kypta: Czech Christmas Mass / Kyrie, Gloria / Czech Christmas Mass
J. Haydn: Creation of the World / Overture, recitative Raphael, choral octet / The Creation of the World / Overture, recitative Raphael, choral octet
J. Haydn: Stvoření světa - Arie Raphaela č.6 / The Creation of the World - Arie Raphaela No.6
J. Haydn: Creation of the World - Arie Gabriela No.8 / The Creation of the World - Arie Gabriela No.8
J. E. Kypta: Czech Christmas Mass / Graduale, Offertorium
J. Dusík: Pastorela in D
A. Cmíral: Baroque carols / Baroque carols¨
G. Bizet: Vánoční pastorella / Christmas pastorella
J. Haydn: The Creation of the World - Raphael's Aria No.22
C. Frank: Panis Angelicus
J. Haydn: Creation of the World - Duet Adam and Eve, choral octet / The Creation of the World - Duet Adam and Eve, choral octet
J. J. Ryba: Česká mše vánoční, final choir / Czech Christmas Mass / final choir
Images were used with permission of the OMGM Library Fund.
What is included in the price?
- A ticket to a classical music concert for a specific time and day.
!!!ATTENTION!!
This product can only be booked up to the third day from the date of purchase. Reservations booked on the same day as the day of purchase cannot be made.
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