Vendulka and Luk\u00e1\u0161 are united in love. Smetana\u2019s rural opera The Kiss portrays their pride, stubbornness, quarrels and misunderstandings that separate them for a brief time. It depicts both comic and touching scenes from village life, and concludes with a reconciliation and confirmation of the couple’s love by a kiss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of the Smetana Litomy\u0161l Opera Incubator project, The Kiss<\/em> is transformed into a compelling experience in which gifted singers on the thresholds of their operatic careers are given an opportunity to perform. Under the direction of Jakub Klecker and Magdalena \u0160vecov\u00e1, these young artists will join forces on stage with the mixed choir KOS Litomy\u0161l, an orchestra composed of students of JAMU, and members of the Czech Virtuosi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smetana Litomysl Opera Incubator<\/strong> Otec Palouck\u00fd – Tomas Maliniak<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":155994,"template":"","zarn":[],"ambasadori":[2874],"class_list":["post-157932","udalosti","type-udalosti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","misto_konani-smetana-house","zanr-operni-rada-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smetanovalitomysl.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/udalosti\/157932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smetanovalitomysl.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/udalosti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smetanovalitomysl.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/udalosti"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smetanovalitomysl.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smetanovalitomysl.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"zarn","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smetanovalitomysl.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zarn?post=157932"},{"taxonomy":"ambasadori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smetanovalitomysl.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ambasadori?post=157932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}programme<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Bed\u0159ich Smetana<\/strong>
The Kiss<\/p>\n\n\n\nPerformers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Vendulka, his daughter – cover Pavla Hub\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1<\/strong><\/strong>
Lukas, the young widower – cover Mat\u011bj Kotrba<\/strong><\/strong>
Tome\u0161, his brother-in-law – cover Jonatan M\u00fcller<\/strong><\/strong>
Martinka, Vendulka’s old aunt – <\/strong>cover Veronika Andraskova<\/strong><\/strong>
Barce, maid at Paloucky’s – cover Anastasiia Babiiuk<\/strong><\/strong>
Matou\u0161, the old shepherd – David Mal\u00e1t<\/strong>
The Guard – David Cizner<\/strong>
Mixed choir KOS Litomy\u0161l<\/strong>
Milan Motl <\/strong>– choirmaster
Members of the Czech Virtuosi Orchestra <\/strong>and Jan\u00e1\u010dek Academic Orchestra<\/strong>
Jakub Klecker<\/strong> – <\/strong>conductor
Magdalena \u0160vecov\u00e1 <\/strong>– <\/strong>director
Martin \u010cern\u00fd<\/strong> \u2013 set design
Barbora Maleninsk\u00e1<\/strong> \u2013 costumes
Jana Sibera<\/strong> \u2013 vocal coach
Barbora M\u00e1lkov\u00e1<\/strong> \u2013 production
David Brabec<\/strong> \u2013 light design
Zuzana \u0160vecov\u00e1<\/strong> \u2013 assistant director
J\u00e1chym Svoboda<\/strong> and Dominik Pernica<\/strong> \u2013 assistant conductors
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