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, June 19th, 19.30 hrs, Castle Courtyard
A unique production of one of the key works of the world’s musical canon for three sopranos, two altos, tenors, baritones and basses, children’s choir, two mixed choirs and a large orchestra.
Text – Part I: Rabanus Maurus Magnetintius – hymnus Veni creator spiritus
Part II: Johann Wolfgang Goethe – Faust, Part 2
Concert in cooperation with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra on the 90th anniversary of its founding.
Magna Peccatrix Maida Hundeling
Una poenitentium Eva Hornyáková
Mater Gloriosa Kateřina Kněžíková
Mulier Samaritana Terézia Kružliaková
Maria Aegyptiaca Veronika Hajnová
Doctor Marianus Daniel Frank
Pater Ecstaticus Anton Keremidtchiev
Pater Profundus Peter Mikuláš
Kühn’s Children’s Choir, choirmaster Jiří Chvála, Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, choirmaster Petr Fiala, City of Bratislava Choir, choirmaster Ladislav Holásek, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ondrej Lenárd