“The Bohemian spirit may wander for a time, the sweep of its mighty wing may sometimes carry it to the ends of the earth, but it will always return to beer again!”
Jan Neruda
Otmar Mácha:
Gambrinus – symphonic overture
Bedřich Smetana:
The Bartered Bride –
“It‘s Beer, Truly a Gift from Heaven!”
Carl Orff:
Carmina burana – “In taberna quando sumus”
Beer here, beer there
The premiere of a musical and pictorial world from the films Postřižiny, Rebels, Adele Hasn’t Supper Yet and others.
Jan Kučera:
Beer Oratorio
for solos, narrators, male choir, organ and symphony orchestra.
Libretto by Jan Kučera on texts from the Middle Ages to the present, relating to the phenomenon of beer in the Czech lands.
New version for the Smetana Litomyšl Festival 2024
photogallery
