Smetana’s Litomyšl
National festival | 10. 6. - 6. 7. 2021
10th June - 6th July 2021
Program announcement
May 17 2021
Presale launch
May 26 2021
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Bedřich Smetana was a significant composer in the romantic period. From his early youth he concerned himself with music, especially playing the piano and composition.
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The grand festival of classical music Smetana’s Litomyšl has been held since 1946 in the home town of the founder of Czech national music Bedřich Smetana, the old-fashioned east Bohemian town of Litomyšl.

Litomyšl can boast of both ancient and modern architecture, a rich social life but at the same time plenty of peace and quiet.

The Smetana’s Litomyšl festival is the second oldest music festival in the Czech Republic, and at the same time it is among the largest regular classical music festivals held in the country.
Sunday 17 June, 19.30 hrs, 2nd Castle Courtyard
This gala concert by a world-renowned tenor will feature most
famous arias, duets and choruses from operas, as well as several
popular evergreens, Sicilian and Neapolitan songs.
Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino (Ouverture)
Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller (Rodolfo's aria from the 2nd Act)
„Quando le sere al placido"
Francesco Cilea: L'Arlesiana (Federico's lament from the 2nd Act)
„E la solita storia del pastore"
Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana Choir and Santuzza
„Regina coeli laetare... Inneggiamo, Il Signor non e morto"
Santuzza and Turiddu's duet
„Tu qui, Santuzza"
Turiddu's Aria
„Mamma, Quel vino e generoso"
Georges Bizet: Carmen's Habanera from the 1st Act
„L'amour est un oiseau rebelle..."
Don José's aria from the 2nd Act
„La fleur que tu m'avais jetee"
Finale of the opera
„C'est toi! C'est moi!"
Steven Mercurio: Mercurial Overture
Stanislao Gastaldon: Musica proibita
„Ogni sera di sotto al mio balcone"
Mario Pasquale Costa: Era de Maggio
„Era de maggio e te cadeano ‘nzino"
Ernesto de Curtis: Ti voglio tanto bene
„Dimmi, che l'amor tuo non muore"
Gioacchino Rossini: Guillaume Tell (Ouverture)
Arturo Buzzi-Peccia: Mal d'amore
„Ho una ferita in core"
Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco - Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from the 3rd Act
„Va Pensiero"
Gaetano Emanuel Cali: E vui durmiti ancora
„Lu suli e gia spuntatu di lu mari"
Salvatore Cardillo: Core 'Ngrato
„Catari, Catari"
Marcello Giordani tenor Marianna Kulikova mezzosoprano
Pražský filharmonický sbor choirmaster Lukáš Vasilek
Symfonický orchestr hl. m. Prahy FOK conductor Steven Mercurio
Expected end at 9.30 pm, 1 intermission
A 1290 CZK • B 990 CZK • C 790 CZK • D (wheelchairs) 450 CZK