January 2018
Thu
17:30
Music–Memory–Metamorphosis
A Multimedia Production Featuring Viktor Ullmann’s 1944 Theresienstadt Melodrama The Lay of Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph RilkeA Multimedia Production Featuring Viktor Ullmann’s 1944 Theresienstadt Melodrama The Lay of Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke
(Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke)
12 excerpts from the 1899 work by Rainer Maria Rilke for speaker and piano
E-tickets: https://goout.net/en/tickets/music-memory-metamorphosis/wxvb/
Produced and directed by Dr. Gwyneth Bravo (NYU-Abu Dhabi) with support from the Orel Foundation, Music-Memory-Metamorphoses is a multimedia production of Viktor Ullmann’s 1944 melodrama The Lay of Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke featuring performances by Romanian operatic bass Gabriel Vamvulescu and Belgian-born pianist Steven Vanhauwaert against a filmic backdrop. In the spirit of early cinema and experimental Berlin theater of the 1920s, Bravo's production— with support from Emmy Award winning animator Paul Sidlo— re-imagines the theater and concert hall as a cinematic space where the performance of the works takes place inside a filmic framework—where a kaleidoscope of projected and slowly shifting images serves as a visual counterpoint to the poetry and music. Employing a montage compositional aesthetic, her film, which Robert Elias, President of the OREL Foundation, describes as "a moving and beautifully wrought immersive work of art," unfolds in thirteen, short movements and is comprised of a series of densely-textured images constructed from the superimposition and animation of a multilayered and harmonically-conceived series of visual elements.
These images include black and white prints from the Czech photographer Joseph Sudek as well as blurred and treated filmic stills and moving imagery to suggest the ghost-like presence and absence of early photography and cinema where the Bohemian landscape is refracted through the sepia-hued lens of memory in order to provide a visual counterpoint for Rainer Maria Rilke's 1899 and Jugendstil work Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke on which Ullmann's melodrama is based. The work features the life, love, and death of a young soldier during the Austro-Turkish war of the early 1660s and was written when Rilke was twenty-three. The work as a major success after its second printing in 1912 and was carried like a Bible by soldiers fighting at the front lines during the First World War.
Born in Silesia in 1898 during the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, composer Viktor Ullmann served as a soldier in World War I and made important contributions to Czech and German musical culture in Prague during the 1920s and 1930s before being deported to the Czech transit and concentration camp Theresienstadt in 1942 where he composed twenty-three. Among these was his melodrama The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, which he completed only months before his transport to Auschwitz where he perished in the gas chambers in October 1944.
Credits
Gabriel Vamvulescu – Recitation
Steven Vanhauwaert – Piano
Paul Sidlo – Technical Production & Design
Gwyneth Bravo – Producer & Director
Thu
20:00
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20:30
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Purchased tickets can be returned at the place of purchase. Thank you.Sun
20:00
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Thu
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20:30
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18:00
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10:00
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20:00
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20:00
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10:00
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20:00
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20:00
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20:00
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20:00
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a colourful melodramaEnglish–friendly
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Tue
20:00
Brass Band
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19:00
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Wed
20:00
Brass Band
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19:00
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venue: Prague Planetarium, Královská obora 233, Praha 7English–friendly
Thu
20:00
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20:00
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18:00
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Fri
19:00
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20:00
Sat
18:00
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Sat
20:00
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18:00
Testing Room
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Sun
20:00
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18:00
50 Years of the Husa na provázku Theatre
Mon
20:00
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Wed
10:00–13:00
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20:00
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09:00
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12:00
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20:00
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20:00
Brass Band
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20:00
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18:00
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20:00
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20:00
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Wed
18:00
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Fri
20:00
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20:00
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20:00
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Fri
20:00
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Sat
20:00
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Sun
20:00
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Archa.lab
Thu
15:30
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Tue
20:00
Russkies?
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Sat
10:00
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Theatre in Social Context / 25 August – 7 September 2018Archa.lab
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Fri
18:00
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09:30
VOSTO5 – Pérák 2018
What's in a name. It's actions that count!Fri
20:00
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a colourful melodramaEnglish–friendly
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20:00
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20:00
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20:00
The Tiger Lillies & Berg Orchestra — Bohemian Nights
world premiere / Archa Theatre productionOctober 2018
Sun
18:00–19:00
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4+4 DAYS IN MOTIONsmall auditorium
Mon
20:00
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4+4 DAYS IN MOTIONWed
20:00
BECKER/LANGGÅRD (NO) – NEW SKIN
4+4 DAYS IN MOTIONFri
19:00
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4+4 DAYS IN MOTIONSat
19:00
NICOLA GUNN (AU) – PIECE FOR PERSON AND GHETTO BLASTER
4+4 DAYS IN MOTIONWed
20:00
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20:00
#Study
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Fri
11:00–13:00
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A meeting with the authors and protagonists of REDFREE ADMISSION
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Fri
20:00
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AKCENT FESTIVAL
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20:00
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AKCENT FESTIVAL
Sun
20:00
Ordinary People
Jana Svobodová, Wen Hui and coll. / Archa Theatre / Living Dance StudioEnglish–friendly
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Mon
20:00
Ordinary People
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AKCENT FESTIVAL
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Sat
12:00–23:00
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20:00
Russkies?
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Sun
20:00
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20:00
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19:00
Russkies?
Jan Burian Jr., Jaroslav Hrdlička, Jana Svobodová and coll./ Archa Theatre#Study
Sat
19:00
Russkies?
Jan Burian Jr., Jaroslav Hrdlička, Jana Svobodová and coll./ Archa TheatreEnglish–friendly
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Sat
21:00
Petr Nikl – Yellow Darkness
a colourful melodramaEnglish–friendly
Theatre Nights 2018 / Free admission, book your seat!
Mon
10:00–13:00
AKCENT FESTIVAL
Sat
18:00
CAMPO / Milo Rau / IIPM – Five Easy Pieces
Akcent Festival together with the Prague German Language Theatre FestivalAKCENT FESTIVAL
Sun
13:00
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20:00
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Wed
20:00
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18:00
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AKCENT FESTIVAL
Sun
20:00
Russkies?
Jan Burian Jr., Jaroslav Hrdlička, Jana Svobodová and coll./ Archa TheatreEnglish–friendly
Mon
10:00
Russkies?
Jan Burian Jr., Jaroslav Hrdlička, Jana Svobodová and coll./ Archa TheatreEnglish–friendly
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Wed
20:00
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10:00
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Thu
15:00
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Staatsschauspiel Dresden / Florian FischerFri
10:00
Operation Kamen
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20:00
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20:00