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Limited Janáček gift edition
In the Year of Czech Music 2024, we celebrate Janáček's 170th birthday and the 100th anniversary of the world premiere of The Cunning Little Vixen. Celebrate with us and choose a gift from the limited birthday edition - a colorful tattoo, a gift wrapping set or an opera lollipop in the eshop darkyzbrna.cz or in the Brno Information Centres.
BRNO is alive with Janáček
Experience Janáček with TIC BRNO during the Janáček Brno festival 2024! During the Janáček Brno International Opera and Music Festival, in addition to the rich festival programme, you can also choose from accompanying activities prepared by the TIC BRNO organization. This year, the festival takes place from November 1 to 24, 2024, but we are starting early from October 18, when you can compete for tickets to the festival. with the Loxper mobile application. Follow in Janáček's footsteps in Brno on foot or by minibus, travel to places linked to Janáček in Hukvaldy or Luhačovice, visit exhibitions, listen to Janáček on your way through the centre of Brno and taste the recipes of Janáček's housekeeper from the Brno gastro scene.
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Leoš Janáček International Competition 2024
From 16 to 22 September 2024, the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (JAMU) will hold the 30th annual Leoš Janáček International Competition for musicians under 35 years of age in the categories of flute and clarinet. All competition rounds are open to the public.
More information here.
Cabaret Janáček in Brno
A new cabaret show in the attractive space of the Cabaret des Pechés is produced by the Brno art hub Tamuza. In an unconventional and funny way, it presents the Brno genius and his music with the aim of bringing local and foreign visitors closer to Janáček Brno in opera quality, but with a non-opera approach.
Dates and tickets here
.An exhibition on Janáček accompanied Jenůfa at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
The Lyric Opera of Chicago, the second largest opera house in the U.S. after the Metropolitan Opera, with a seating capacity of 3,300, staged Janáček's opera Jenůfa from November 12-26, 2023. In the foyer of the theatre, the series of performances was accompanied by an exhibition dedicated to the personality of Leoš Janáček, prepared by TIC BRNO and the Moravian Museum in cooperation with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Chicago and the Lyric Opera production.
New Czech-English book on Janáček's operas The Fate and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček
The new book by Jiří Zahrádka follows the publication on the opera Jenůfa, which won the Prestomusic Awards as the Book of the Year in 2022. The new book looks at two remarkable operas which have been unfairly neglected by the theatre world — Janáček's Fate and The Excursions of Mr Brouček. The two works were written after the composer had laboured for many years on perhaps his most famous opera, Jenůfa, during which he discovered his own distinctive musical language built on speech melodies to accompany a realistic subject. In his subsequent operas Janáček then looked for new ways in which to develop these compositional principles and use them for diverse themes. The book is accompanied by a wealth of iconographic material, much of which is being published here for the first time.
Published by Host Brno and the Moravian Museum, more here.
Janáček's speech melodies
What might the speech melodies that Janáček wrote down in the streets of Brno, in the Hukvaldy park or on the train have sounded like? Take a look at Janáček's notations and listen to ten examples in the How Janáček Created section or go to the playlist. Activate the subtitle function for translation.
Leoš Janáček International Competition 2023
From 9 to 17 September 2023, the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (JAMU) will hold the Leoš Janáček International Competition for musicians under 35 years of age in the fields of double bass and violoncello. All competition rounds are open to the public.
Schedule of all competition rounds:
Violoncello:
9–13 September 2023 - Orlí Theatre
15 September 2023 - Besední dům
Double bass:
11–15 September 2023 - JAMU Faculty of Music
17 September 2023 - Besední dům
More information here.
The Cunning Little Vixen in São Paulo
The opera The Cunning Little Vixen was performed for the first time in Brazil, at the Theatro São Pedro in São Paulo, from 23 July to 6 August 2023. The production was staged by conductor Ira Levin and director André Heller, who have previously staged Janáček's operas Katya Kabanova (2018) and The Makropulos Affair (2019) at this theatre. The opera was performed in the original Czech with Portuguese subtitles. The stage design was inspired by the work of surrealist painter René Magritte. TIC BRNO, in cooperation with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in São Paulo, which was one of the partners of the project, created promotional materials for the audience with the Janáček theme and the theme of the opera The Cunning Little Vixen in Portuguese.
Exhibition of illustrations by Vendula Chalánková for the book Mářa's Memoirs
The Moravian Museum invites for a summer exhibition at the Leoš Janáček Memorial House, which presents illustrations - paper collages by Vendula Chalánková for book Mářa's Memoirs ● At the Janáček's ● Written by Marie Trkanová based on the narration of Marie Stejskalová, a housekeeper in the family of Leoš Janáček.
The book was published by TIC BRNO and Moravian Museum.
The exhibition will run until 15 October 2023..
Janáček in Rome again
On 23 May 2023, Leoš Janáček's opera From the House of the Dead was performed for the first time at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. The series of performances is accompanied by an exhibition presenting documents and costumes related to this opera, as well as photographs from Janáček's visit to Italy in 1925. The exhibition was prepared by TIC BRNO, the Moravian Museum and the National Theatre in Prague in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Rome and with the financial support of the South Moravian Region.
Janáček at the Konvergencie festival
This year's spring edition of the international chamber music festival Konvergencie will bring another portrait of an great composer - this time it will be Leoš Janáček. From March 2 to 12, 2023, Janáček's essential chamber works will be performed in Bratislava, and the program also includes lectures, an exhibition or events for children.
Anniversary of the death of Olga Janáčková
26 February 2023 marks the 120th anniversary of the death of Olga (15.8.1882-26.2.1903), daughter of Zdenka and Leoš Janáček. A beautiful, intelligent and kind girl, she was the light of the Janáček family. From her youth she was plagued by heart disease, to which she succumbed at the age of only 21. The Janáček family lost their second child. "I would only bind her stepdaughter with the black ribbon of a long illness, the pain and lamentations of my daughter Olga and my son Vladimir", Janáček wrote in his autobiography A View of Life and Work.
Unveiling of the memorial plaque to Kamila Stösslová in Písek
On Sunday 27 November 2022, a memorial plaque to Janáček's muse and friend Kamila Stösslová was unveiled on the house at 17 Přemyslova Street in Písek, South Bohemia. Kamila Stösslová lived in this house with her husband David and sons Rudolf and Otto since 1919 and Janáček visited them many times in Písek.
Leoš Janáček International Competition 2022
The Faculty of Music of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts is organising the Leoš Janáček International Piano and Organ Competition in Brno from 11 to 18 September 2022. The final round in organ will take place on 17 September at 14.00 in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and the final round in piano will take place on 18 September at 14.00 in the Besední dům. Admission to the final rounds is free for the public.
More information here.
168th birthday of the Master 3 July 2022
Janáček was born on 3 July 1854 in Hukvaldy, but spent almost his entire life in Brno, where most of his works had their world premiere. What was it like? Watch the video and see more in the Cartoons+Games section.
TIC BRNO at the Janáček Brno 2022 Festival
In the footsteps of Leoš Janáček by minibus, a walk with a mobile app, a tasting of the Master's favourite recipes or a trip to Hukvaldy. See what TIC BRNO is offering as part of the Janáček Brno Festival in November 2022.
Janáček in Rome
On January 18, 2022, Leoš Janáček's opera Káťa Kabanová was performed for the first time at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. The series of performances is accompanied by the exhibition Leoš Janáček - portraits, prepared by TIC Brno and the Moravian Museum in cooperation with the Czech Center Rome.
In the footsteps of Leoš Janáček with the Loxper mobile application
You can now follow in the Maestro's steps across Brno with the Loxper mobile app. The trail follows the places listed in the printed guide published by TIC BRNO and the description of the trail on this website. Part of the trail includes puzzles, extracts of Janáček's music and animated photographs of Janáček with audio commentary provided using artificial intelligence. A gift awaits you at IC Panenská for successfully completing the trail!
Advance ticket sales for the Janáček Brno 2022 festival have started
In 2022, the festival will take place from 2 to 20 November. The festival program offers a number of excellent opera productions and concerts performed by leading Czech and foreign performers.
Take advantage of an extraordinary 20 percent discount when you buy tickets for the Janáček Brno 2022 Festival until 14 December 2021!
A new Czech-English publication about Janáček's Jenůfa
"Truth, the first things is truth, not beauty. The story of Janáček's Jenůfa" is a new book by Jiří Zahrádka published in the Moravian Museum. It provides a great deal of new information which has come to light as a result of the research for the critical edition of the score. It takes the reader back to the origins of the work and answers the questions why Janáček decided to choose a realistic play; when exactly the opera was composed; and why the composer did all he could to prevent the date being discovered for the completion of the first act. It outlines the family, professional and social circumstances surrounding the origin of the opera, as well as the world premiere in Brno and the successful premieres in Prague and Vienna, It also looks at Janáček's friendship with Max Brod and his international promotion of Jenůfa and the composers' other works. The book is accompanied by a large number of documents and photographs, many of which are published here for the first time.
Available at the Leoš Janáček Memorial, the Moravian Museum giftshop and in the e-shop.
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The Janáček Brno festival in 2021
From September to November 2021 you can look forward to performances and concerts which were moved from 2020. Keep up with the current programme at janacek-brno.cz
The exhibition In the Janáček's kitchen
Visit the exhibition In the Janáček's kitchen at the Leoš Janáček Memorial, Moravian Museum. It presents original illustrations by Vendula Chalánková for the publication Mářa's Cookbook with recipes of Janáček's housekeeper Marie Stejskalová. The installation also includes art objects that Chalánková "cooked and baked" according to Mářa's recipes.
The exhibition will run until October 15, 2021.
The partner of the exhibition is TIC Brno.
Tasting of Janáček's favorite desserts in Brno cafes and patisseries
At the same time with the exhibition In the Janáček's kitchen in the Leoš Janáček Memorial, a tasting of desserts according to the recipes of Janáček's housekeeper Marie Stejskalová published in the book Mářa's Cookbook has been taking place since 15 July 2021.
Listen to Janáček on the way through Brno
Even if you are not going to follow the entire Janáček trail through Brno, stop while walking through the city center at the information panels with the localities connected with Janáček's life in Brno. QR codes referring to the short samples of Janáček's music have been added to them. With the help of a mobile phone, you can make your journey more pleasant, for example by listening to a wedding scene from the opera The Cunning Little Vixen, a fanfare from the Sinfonietta or the overture to the opera The Makropulos Affair. The QR codes refer to the individual audio samples in the I'm Listening to Janáček section.
New sections on the website
What was Janáček like as a person and what influenced his character? What role did his family and the social and political circumstances have to play? How did Leoš Janáček live? What was his family life like? Where did he live? Where did he travel to? What was his financial position? What did Janáček draw his inspiration from? How was his music influenced by folk music, Russian culture and human speech melodies? And his love life? Read the new sections in our website. The texts written by Jiří Zahrádka were published as part of the catalogue for the exhibition Famous Czech Composers.
Leoš Janáček in the film
Watch the unique film shot with Leoš Janáček on a trip by steamer in 1925. It's in the section How Janáček Lived.
Film shots from the funeral of Leoš Janáček on 15 August 1928 can be found here.
Film material for our website was provided by the National Film Archive.
Janáček's operas at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2021 online
After the successful apppearance at the 45th prestigious international Hong Kong Arts Festival with a production of Janáček's Makropulos Affair in 2017, the Janáček Opera of National Theatre Brno returns to the Hong Kong festival podium. Due to the pandemic, the festival organisers have decided that international ensembles will appear online through recordings and live streaming. The original plan to perform Bohuslav Martinů's opera The Greek Passion will therefore be replaced by two recordings of Brno's Janáček productions which were made in cooperation with Czech Television - Jenůfa and The Cunning Little Vixen.
Festival viewers can look forward to recordings of several outstanding concerts which were performed as part of the Janáček Brno 2020 festival and a number of accompanying programmes on the festival website, presenting not only the produtions themselves but also works by Czech composers and the history of Brno opera (the online exhibition Into the Czech Lands) as well as Brno and Leoš Janáček.
I'm listening to Janáček
During the Janáček Brno 2020 festival, you will meet Leoš Janáček and his dog Čipera at 16 locations in the center of Brno. Scan the QR code on the Master's suit and listen to a music sample.
Famous Czech composers in the National Museum
Visit the virtual exhibition Famous Czech Composers, prepared by the National Museum in Prague. Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček and Bohuslav Martinů - four big names in Czech music, which has become a world phenomenon. An extensive catalog was published for the exhibition, the authors of which focused on important moments in the lives of these composers, the conditions of creation, the journey, some selected works, inspirations, but also the relationships between them and their works. The publication can be ordered in the e-shop of the National Museum.
Guided online tour of Leoš Janáček Memorial House
Exhibition at Bohemian National Hall in New York Will Accompany the Metropolitan Opera's Staging of Káťa Kabanová
Czech Center New York opens a new exhibition on the occasion of the reappearance of Káťa Kabanová on the New York Metropolitan Opera stage this spring. It introduces a number of different themes. First and foremost, it explains the circumstances surrounding the creation and first staging of Káťa Kabanová, which took place in Brno in 1921. It also presents the history of productions of Janáček's operas at the Met, beginning with the first performance of Jenůfa there during the composer's lifetime. Janáček's special relationship with the city of Brno will be reflected in a presentation about the latest Janáček-related activities happening there. And the exhibition will also include a series of visually striking paper collages by Vendula Chalánková featuring portraits of Leoš Janáček and those close to him. The exhibition was prepared by the Moravian Museum Brno, Tourist Information Office of Brno, the Metropolitan Opera and the Czech Center New York.
Tickets for the festival Janáček Brno 2020 are on sale
Program and tickets here: janacek-brno.cz
Open house with Janáček
Janáček in relation to the theatre building bearing his name.
In autumn 2019, the preparations for the seventh year of the Janáček Festival will be peaking; however, before it is introduced the Janáček Opera of the National Theatre Brno company has arranged an exclusive opportunity to get to know the work of Janáček in relation to the theatre building bearing his name.
On 27 November 2019 there will be an Open House giving the visitors an opportunity to see our theatre through new eyes, from the foyer to the most secret backstage corners with musical and theatre surprises prepared by the Opera members and students of Conservatory, JAMU and Brno Academic Choir.
95th anniversary of the opera The Cunning Little Vixen
On November 6, 2019, 95 years have passed since the world premiere of Janáček's opera The Cunning Little Vixen. It was first performed at today's Mahen Theatre, directed by Ota Zítek and Eduard Milén's stage design. The conductor was František Neumann, head of the opera ensemble in National Theater Brno.
A new exhibition at the Leoš Janáček Memorial in Hukvaldy
A new exhibition was opened at the Leoš Janáček Memorial in Hukvaldy on 12 September 2019. Visitors can view the historical interiors of the composer's home in their original condition, while the exhibition gives information on the area where Janáček grew up and his friends from Hukvaldy, the things which inspired the composer, his activities in folk music and his notation of speech melodies.
More on the Memorial, including photographs from the new exhibition, here.
The Leoš Janáček and music exhibition at the Brno Augustinians
This exhibition is part of festival dedicated to Gregor Mendel, held from 19 to 21 July 2019 in the grounds of the Augustinian Abbey on Mendlovo náměstí in Brno. A room with an exhibition will be opened in the Museum of the Old Brno Abbey which will present the history of music in Brno's Augustinian monastery and the composers connected to it, in particular Pavel Křížkovský and Leoš Janáček, whose parents sent him for a musical education to the Brno Augustinians when he was an eleven-year-old boy. Janáček later took over from Pavel Křížkovský as the director of the organ loft in the monastery basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The exhibition also includes the organ table and the remains of the Steinmeyer organ which was installed in the basilica while Janáček was based in the abbey and which the composer often played on.
The exhibition was organised by TIC BRNO and the Moravian Museum Brno
Janáček in Brno exhibition
at the entrance corridor of the Abbey of Old Brno of the Order of St Augustine on Mendlovo náměstí.
The photography exhibition presents historical pictures of Leoš Janáček in various places in Brno. Although Janáček was not born in Brno, he moved there when he was eleven and fundamentally influenced the cultural life of the city with his tireless artistic and organisational activities, and his legacy in Brno is evident to this day. The exhibition includes photographs of Janáček outside of his home in the garden of the Organ School, in the company of various Brno dignitaries, and Janáček's pupils and friends. There are also several portrait photographs taken in Brno studios.
The exhibition was organised by TIC BRNO and the Moravian Museum Brno
Open on weekdays from 7am to 6.30pm.
The International Leoš Janáček Competition
From 24 to 29 September 2019, the music faculty of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts is running the 25th International Leoš Janáček Competition, on this occasion for the flute and clarinet.
Happy birthday, Leoš!
3 July 2019 we celebrate the 165th anniversary of the birth of Leoš Janáček.
Nigel Simeone has brought out The Janáček Compendium
The Compendium contains nearly 300 entries connected with every aspect of Janáček's life and work, with detailed information about his major compositions - especially the operas - including the latest findings. A comprehensive guide of this type has been missing from the literature on Janáček. It allows easy retrieval of important facts about the composer's life and work including the performance history, basic concepts, prominent individuals, editions - i.e. all the essential information, including an up-to-date bibliography. The author of the publication, Nigel Simeone, is a respected music expert and lecturer with a lifelong interest in Czech music. Published by Boydell & Brewer publishers.
Read on the publisher's blog about author's delights of documenting Janáček.
Leoš Janáček goes!
Janáček has his tram. Together with him travel around Brno characters from his operas - Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, Šárka, Mr. Brouček, Bystrouška and others.
Janáček Brno 2020
Janáček Brno 2020 will take place from 28.9. - 16. 10. 2020. The festival programme will be released to the public on 1 December 2019 on the occasion of a preview concert at the Reduta Theatre in Brno. Advance ticket sales will also commence from December this year. Up-to-date information about the Janáček Brno 2020 festival and preview concerts will be published over the course of the year on www.janacek-brno.cz
Janáček Brno Festival Winner of the International Opera Awards
On 29 April 2019 the Janáček Brno festival was presented with one of the prestigious International Opera Awards in the opera festivals category at an awards ceremony in London. Congratulations!
Janáček's name also appeared in connection with other prizes. The director of the year was Katie Mitchell, among other things for her excellent production of Jenůfa in Amsterdam, and the production of the year was Janáček's opera From the House of the Dead at the Royal Opera House in London.
Janáček Brno 2018 nominated for a prize at The International Opera Awards
The 6th edition of the International Opera and Music Festival Janáček Brno, which was held from 17th November to 5th December 2018, saw the festival achieve even greater success in the international context. Visitor numbers reached a record high and the positive audience response to the programme was also accompanied by great feedback from experts and critics.
Moreover the Janáček Brno 2018 has been nominated for a prestigious prize at The International Opera Awards.
Exhibition - At home with the Janáčeks
Come and glimpse the private life of the famous composer. On display
at the exhibition will be personal items from the Janácek estate -
writing equipment, part of his wardrobe, toiletries etc. The
exhibition is being held at the Mramorové sály at Biskupský dvůr
(Muzejní 1) until 24 February 2019.
Our Janáček animation series on Operavision!
Learn about Janáček's life and works in this delightful animation mini-series. Produced by Tourist Information Centre Brno with financial support from the city of Brno, it is designed for children but will delight adults, too!
Watch the video and play a musical memory game here or visit OPERAVISION website.
Janáček Brno 2018 festival was launched with the premiere of The Cunning Little Vixen
The festival began on November 17 and runs until 5 December 2018. All of Leoš Janáček stage works are performed, with productions by international artists such as Ivo van Hove, Robert Carsen, Kornél Mundruczó, David Pountney and Alvis Hermanis. Behind the conductor's stand will feature, amongst others, Tomáš Hanus, Tomáš Netopil and Marko Ivanović. The concert section of the programme is including outstanding musicians such as Thomas Adès, Martin Kasík, Jitka Čechová, Simona Houda-Šaturová and the Pavel Haas Quartet.
Find out more at www.janacek-brno.cz
Janáček's biography by John Tyrrell was published in the Czech translation
TIn November 2018, the Czech translation of the first volume of the most complete biography of Janáček by John Tyrrell, was published.
The Cunning Little Vixen in the National Thetre Brno
On November 17, 2018, the premiere of the new production of the opera The Cunning Little Vixen will be held at the National Theater Brno. A day later on November 18, 2018, the performance will be streamed live online as part of the OPERA VISION project. The premiere will be the opening ceremony of the Janacek Brno 2018 festival.
The musicologist John Tyrrell has died
On 4 October 2018, the leading expert on Leoš Janáček, British professor John Tyrrell, died. He was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1942 and studied at the universities in Cape Town, Cambridge and Brno. He was the editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and taught at the universities in Nottingham and Cardiff. He devoted his entire professional life to Czech music, in particular the life and work of Leoš Janáček. He was the author of numerous books including an extensive two-volume biography of Janáček, the first volume of which, Leoš Janáček. The Lonely Blackbird (1854-1914) , will also soon be published in Czech. John Tyrrell was the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters, as well as honorary doctorates from Masaryk University and the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. In January 2018 he received the Classic Prague Award as an "international ambassador for Czech music".
Leoš Janáček. Some things you might not have known
TIC BRNO has published a promotional picture brochure, which is available free of charge in the Brno Information Centers. Click on the cover page to view it.
Invitation to Vendula Chalánková's exhibition Leoš and his dear
The Leoš Janáček Memorial 8. 6. - 9. 9. 2018, exhibition opening 7. 6. At 5pm
Vendula Chalánková is one of the most respected artists of the younger generation. The range of her work is very broad, from fine art to book illustration, through to comics and animation. She uses a correspondingly wide range of techniques - from painting and drawing to collage, assemblage and embroidered objects. The exhibition at the Leoš Janáček Memorial presents a series of artistically impressive paper collages which Chalánková created in 2017 as designs for various types of promotional items with portrait motifs of Leoš Janáček and his friends for the Tourist Information Centre Brno. These were based on historical photographs kept in the Leoš Janáček Archive.
The exhibition partner is TIC BRNO, a state-funded organisation.
Janáček Ostrava 2018
This joint project organised by the Ostrava
music scene runs throughout 2018. One of its highlights is the Leoš Janáček
International Music Festival at the end of May and in June, part of which
includes the musicological conference Janáčkiana, as well as the St Wenceslas
Music Festival, the premiere of the opera Fate at the National
Moravian-Silesian Theatre and the four-day Leoš Janáček Music Marathon from 25th
to 28th of October 2018.
Find out more at www.janacek2018.cz
Praise from Milan Kundera
Good news! In April 2018 the
deputy mayor of Brno, Matěj Hollan, and the head of the Vienna Czech Centre, Mojmír Jeřábek,
visited the Kunderas in Paris. As is well known, Milan Kundera is the son of
Janáček's pupil, Ludvík Kundera, and his appreciation of the works of Janáček has
made him one of his greatest promoters. This makes it all the more special for
us that Mr Kundera was so enthusiastic about our Janáček promotional materials
with motifs of the maestro's speech melodies and pictures by Vendula
Chalánková, as well as by the guide In the Footsteps of Leoš Janáček. He was
also impressed by the news that Brno is constructing the Janáček Cultural
Centre and that a Janáček museum is underway
Archiv of Leoš Janáček took over the certificate of the inscription on the UNESCO Memory the World International Register
The Leoš Janáček Archive, which is part of the Moravian Museum's Department of Music History, was in 2017 entered into the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register, making it the sixth Czech entry.
The Leoš Janáček Archive is a collection of documents covering the composer's entire written legacy and many other materials which have been gradually added to it following the composer's death in 1928. With a few exceptions it includes all of Janáček's manuscripts for his compositions, librettos and studies, and the composer's library, which contains numerous volumes of fiction as well as specialist books with notes written in Janáček's handwriting.
A very important section also consists of Janáček's correspondence, amounting to more than 14,000 items.
TIC BRNO published the guidebook
In the footsteps of Leoš Janáček
The guidebook, In the Footsteps of Leoš Janáček. Brno City Guide, presents locations and buildings in Brno which are connected with the composer's personal as well as professional life, and contains a great deal of information, historical photographs and illustrated documents. Enthusiasts have the opportunity to follow the route we have suggested or adapt it to how it suits best in terms of length and time. It also includes the composer's life in dates and in a longer text, two of Janáček's feuilletons and an overview of Brno institutions, their history, as well as any current activities which are connected with Janáček's legacy. Inside contains a poster and a large map of the centre of Brno with a marked-out route. The guidebook was published in both Czech and English. You can buy in the information centers or in the e-shop.
Brno Christmas 2017 with Janáček
The Maestro was also present in Brno at Christmas. He
appeared at the opening projection mapping, while throughout Christmas in Brno
the figure of Leoš Janáček and other Brno notables were part of an installation
around the fountain on náměstí Svobody. He also featured in a Christmas
collection of gifts with pictures of famous people connected to Brno.
Vendula Chalánková's JANÁČEK
TIC BRNO prepared a new collections of souvenirs with motifs
of Leoš Janáček. One of these is based on a graphic design by the artist
Vendula Chalánková, who used historical photographs from the Leoš Janáček
Archive to create her own pictures of Leoš Janáček and his family and friends,
as well as characters from the opera The Cunning Little Vixen..
The second is based on motifs from Janáček's speech melodies - notes from situations and snippets of conversations including notated records which the composer entered into his diaries for more than thirty years.
The collection was created by the designer Barbara Zemčik.
THE MAKROPULOS AFFAIR in Shanghai
The Janáček Opera of the National Theatre Brno performed Janáček's opera The
Makropulos Affair, directed by David Radok, at the Great Theatre in Shanghai on
the 19th and 21st of November 2017. The JO NTB also performed the same
production in Hong Kong in February 2017
JANÁČEK BRNO 2018 festival
Tickets went on sale for the Janáček Brno 2018 International
Opera and Music Festival on 13.11.2017 and are disappearing fast!
The new Janáček Brno 2018 festival programme is out! It is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic. All of Leoš Janáček stage works will be performed, with productions by international artists such as Ivo van Hove, Robert Carsen, Kornél Mundruczó, David Pountney and Alvis Hermanis. Behind the conductor's stand will feature, amongst others, Tomáš Hanus, Tomáš Netopil and Marko Ivanović. The concert section of the programme will include outstanding musicians such as Thomas Adès, Martin Kasík, Jitka Čechová, Simona Houda-Šaturová and the Pavel Haas Quartet.
UNESCO Memory of the World
The Leoš Janáček Archive, which is part of the Moravian
Museum's Department of Music History, was designed to the inscription into the
UNESCO Memory of the World International Register
