What would you do if someone accused you but would not say of what? Josef K. from Kafka’s The Trial searches for an answer in a system that seems to have been set up precisely so that he never finds it. The contemporary American composer Philip Glass tells the world-famous story in a chamber opera for eight singers and twelve instrumentalists. Jiří Nekvasil’s production will be presented by the Opera of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in the Piarist Church of the Finding of the Holy Cross.
Performed in the original English, with Czech and English surtitles.
programme
Philip Glass
The Trial
Performers
Josef K. – Pavel Divín
Fräulein Bürstner / Leni / Offstage Voice – Karolína Levková
Frau Grubach / Washerwoman (Wife of the Court Usher) / Offstage Voice / Woman – Anna Nitrová
Titorelli / Flogger / Student (Berthold) – Vít Nosek
Guard 1 (Franz) / Block / Offstage Voice – Martin Javorský
Magistrate / Assistant / Lawyer Huld / Offstage Voice – Ihor Maryshkin
Guard 2 (Willem) / Court Usher / Clerk of the Court / Priest – Josef Škarka
Inspector / Uncle Albert – Jan Šťáva
Opera of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava
Christopher Hampton – libretto (based on Franz Kafka’s eponymous novel from 1914)
Marko Ivanović – musical preparation
Jiří Nekvasil – stage director
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