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Juliette (The Key to Dreams) at The National Theatre

Dates: (10/26/2016 - 4/12/2017 )

Theatre:

The National Theatre


Národní 2
Praha 1,Praha 1 110 00

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Tickets: CZK 100.00 - CZK 1290.00

Running Time: Approximate running time, including intermission: 2 hours, 45 minutes, one 20-minute intermission.

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Bohuslav Martin?’s opera Juliette (The Key to Dreams) is closely linked to the National Theatre in Prague, which gave its premiere on 16 March 1938, conducted by Václav Talich and directed by Jind?ich Honzl, both major Czech artists of the first half of the 20th century. The libretto, written by Martin? himself in French, was based on the Surrealist author Georges Neveux’s play Juliette ou la Clé de songes, first performed at the Théâtre de l’Avenue in Paris in 1930 and staged two years later, in Jind?ich Ho?ejší’s translation, at the Estates Theatre, directed by Ji?í Frejka and featuring Ji?ina Šejbalová and Eduard Kohout in the lead roles. In the spring of 1936, Martin? plunged into writing the Czech libretto and composing the music for Juliette, and completed the opera the next January. During that time, he corresponded with Jind?ich Honzl and Václav Talich, who received the score in March 1937. The story takes places in the poetic and fantasy atmosphere of a dream, in which nothing makes sense yet concurrently everything comes across as real and bearing a certain meaning. The young Paris bookseller Michel arrives in a strange small town, in search of a young woman named Juliette, whose voice he once heard somewhere. His dream, however, gets out of hand, living a life of its own...

Cast and Creative team for Juliette (The Key to Dreams) at The National Theatre

Libretto: Bohuslav Martin?
Musical preparation: Jaroslav Kyzlink
Conductor: Jaroslav Kyzlink, David Švec
Stage director: Zuzana Gilhuus
Sets: Zuzana Gilhuus
Costumes: Tomáš Kypta
Choreography: Radim Vizváry
Dramaturgy: Beno Blachut


Juliette


Maria Kobielska
Alžb?ta Polá?ková

Michel


Peter Berger
Jaroslav B?ezina

Commissar, Clerk, Postman, Forest Warden


Ond?ej Koplík
Ondrej Šaling

Clerk


Václav Lemberk
Petr Leví?ek

Old Arab / Convict


Yevhen Shokalo
Lud?k Vele

Little Arab / Chasseur


Markéta Cukrová
Michaela Kapustová

The man in the window / Trader memories


Ji?í Hájek
Vladimír Chmelo

Man with helmet


Zden?k Plech
Marek Gurba?

Bird seller


Lucie Hájková
Jitka Svobodová

Fishmonger


Yvona Škvárová
Lenka Šmídová

Old Youth / Beggar


Miloš Horák
Jan Š?áva

Grandfather / Ancient mariner


Aleš Hendrych
Ivan Kusnjer

Young mariner


Michal Bragagnolo
Št?pán Eliáš

Night watchman


Milan Stehlík

Prophet


Stanislava Jirk?
Alžb?ta Vomá?ková

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