NEWS | 19. 3. 2015

Ten percent discount on admission to the opera The Fall of the Antichrist in the Moravian Theatre Olomouc you get when you submit a ticket payment from the exhibition Aenigma | One Hundred Years of anthroposophic art! The first Czech staging works by the composer Viktor Ullmann, which premiered last October, is part of this international project. Moravian Theatre performances will run for 24 March and 21 April.

What is the opera The Fall of the Antichrist and exhibition Aenigma connection? The author, a German-Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann was anthroposophic ideas of Rudolf Steiner influenced so much that at the time he left a musical career in 1932 in Stuttgart opened a book deal with Anthroposophic literature … The inspiration for Ullmann a model for the libretto was then eponymous drama Swiss anthroposophic poet Albert Steffen from 1928. The libretto refers to a series of mythological, religious, historical and literary sources – to the images of the Apocalypse. Jana, allegories of the Persian myth of Zarathustra, the legend of the Antichrist Vladimir Solovyov and other symbols, the strongest motive, however, is the Apocalypse.

Ullmann his Anthroposophic opera completed in 1935 and a year later won the award for her Emil Hertzky. Since the mid-thirties was already in modern music circles respected composer, his efforts to bring about opera but remained futile. In 1942 he was deported with his family to the Small Fortress in Theresienstadt and October 16, 1944 taken infamous “Transportation artists” in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was soon murdered.

Fall of the Antichrist had its world premiere in 1995 in Bielefeld, Germany. The first Czech production took a set of operas and operettas Moravian Theatre Olomouc, who studied opera under the baton of Miloslav Oswald and directed by JA Pitínský. The premiere took place on October 18, 2014, the day of the 70th anniversary of the tragic death of Viktor Ullmann in Auschwitz gas chamber. January 25, 2015 the ensemble work performed at the National Theatre in Prague. The production won the Director award at the Prague Festival of Music Opera Theater 2015.

Reprises in the Moravian Theatre Olomouc:
24.3 (Tues) | 19:00
21.4 (Tues) | 19:00
Tickets www.moravskedivadlo.cz

Record production can also listen to the Czech Radio 3 – Vltava, on Saturday, May 9th at 20 hours.