Calendar
June 2025
2025-06-25Opera Gala – Corinne Winters & Pavel Černoch
Litomyšl Castle, castle courtyard | Litomyšl, Czech Republic

Two shining stars of the most prestigious opera houses in the world - American soprano Corinne Winters and tenor Pavel Černoch in arias, duets and scenes from operas by Slavic composers
American soprano Corinne Winters has performed more than thirty roles in major opera houses around the world. The Slavic or Czech repertoire occupies a fundamental place in her operatic career. This season she will make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, return to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome.
Pavel Cernoch is considered one of the leading tenors of our time. He regularly performs at major opera houses such as the Vienna State Opera, Paris National Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Berlin and Bavarian State Opera. He is renowned for his versatility, and his interpretation of the Czech and Slavic repertoire is particularly appreciated.
July 2025
2025-07-07Katya Kabanova
Bavarian State Opera | Munich, Germany

In Leoš Janáček’s opera, Katya Kabanová, the eponymous heroine is ensnared at the heart of an ominous mesh of relations. Her domineering mother-in-law, Kabanicha, oppresses and controls her son Tichon, whose marriage to Katya suffers massively from heteronomy. Because Katya finds no fulfilment in this family, she flees and fulfils her unsatisfied erotic desires in an affair with Boris. As composer and librettist, Janáček bundles the plot of the literary template, Alexander N. Ostrovsky’s drama, The Storm. The libretto largely dispenses with the portrayal of the external social circumstances, from whence Katya’s essence and choices are decisively determined. Instead, Janáček traces the development of the title character in a psychological-sensitive musical language. Katya’s feelings of guilt increase continuously until they discharge into a public confession as an emotional storm. The turbulent and in places fanciful music opens the space for passages of lyrical grace and allows us to experience the essence of the characters. In Katya, director Krzysztof Warlikowski sees an outsider, who is denied a life in harmony with her desires, and at the end prefers death over lies. The destructive power of religion behind it all is not only found in a small Russian town on the banks of the Volga in the 1860s, where the libretto places the plot, but rather can also be seen everywhere all over the world.
September 2025
2025-09-14National Radio Orchestra | Shostakovich
The Palace Hall - Sala Palatului | Bucharest, Romania

NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA
RADIO ACADEMIC CHOIR
Giancarlo Guerrero - conductor
Ciprian Țuțu - choir conductor
Carmen Lidia Vidu - multimedia director
Dmitrij Shostakovich Lady Macbeth Mtsensk op. 29
Andreas Bauer Kanabas - Boris Izmailov (bass)
Vincent Wolfsteiner - Zinoviy Izmailov (tenor)
Kristine Opolais - Katerina Izmailova (soprano)
Pavel Černoch - Sergej (tenor)
Maria Barakova - Sonietka (mezzo-soprano)
News
Jakub Hrůša and friends at the concert
Concert at the Royal Opera House 20th Sep 2025, 7:00pm
Opera Gala – Corinne Winters & Pavel Černoch
Opera Gala at Litomyšl Castle - 25th June 2025, 7:30pm
Pavel Černoch in Harmonie magazine
Exclusive interview with Pavel Černoch in the latest print edition of Harmonie magazine.