PROGRAMME

Repertoire

1 × 6 Fairy-tales

František Hrubín / MOPED

A playful, interactive version of a production that involves children audience members in what is happening on stage. more

A German Requiem

Johannes Brahms / Francesco Annarumma

A renowned oratorio where death is separation but also access to unpredictable communication with the sources of being and infinity more

Bartering the bride

Bedřich Smetana

After their children are born, the parents agree on their future marriage. Only Jeník's cleverness and fearlessness contribute to the happy ending of the opera, in which „the good wins and true love triumphs." more

BIRDS OF A FEATHER (LA CAGE AUX FOLLES)

Jerry Herman / Harvey Fierstein

We are what we are! One of the most entertaining classical musicals of the last half-century will be performed in Pilsen for the first time. more

Braniboři v Čechách

Bedřich Smetana

Candide

Leonard Bernstein

The famous American composer, conductor, and an avid promoter of music Leonard Bernstein is also the author of one opera and several musicals, of which the West Side Story, staged in Pilsen for the first time in May 2017, belongs to the best that has ever been created in this genre. more

Company

Stephen Sondheim / George Furth

Get under the yoke of marriage or remain single? Will Robert find the answer to this question? An intelligent and entertaining musical with lively music, viewing relationships honestly and humorously. Can you recognise yourselves in any of the situations? more

Consent

Nina Raine

“Is there anything behind which there is no sex?” more

Crutches and knives

Anita Augustin

Psychedelic road story of forever young old ladies. This dynamic grotesque, which has been dramatised by the author of the novel, presents four charming elderly ladies who are facing jail. more

Czech Christmas Mass

Jakub Jan Ryba

The Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba has become an integral part of Czech Christmas celebrations. We can hear it in every church, in concert halls, we know it by heart; we love its pure simplicity. more

Čtyři řeky

Jiří Bubeníček / Petr Zuska / Richard Ševčík / Mami Mołoniewicz

Dalibor

Bedřich Smetana

Oblíbená Smetanova opera Dalibor vznikla po Braniborech v Čechách a Prodané nevěstě. Autoři líčí v idealizované podobě příběh z historických kronik o rytíři Daliboru z Kozojed, který byl nespravedlivě odsouzen a uvězněn ve věži na Pražském hradě, později po něm nazývané Daliborka. more

DEVIL'S WALL

Bedřich Smetana

A comic and romantic opera with timeless music by Bedřich Smetana. more

Dracula

Karel Svoboda / Zdeněk Borovec / Richard Hes

Who does not know hits like “You are my master” or “I know you are with me”? In the nearly thirty years since its creation, the original Czech musical, Dracula, loosely inspired by Bram Stoker's famous novel, has been seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers at home and abroad. more

Dvě vdovy

Bedřich Smetana

FIRE

Roland Schimmelpfennig

One of today's most important playwrights, Roland Schimmelpfennig, uses his poetic, rhythmic and figurative language to tell archetypal parables of blessed and cursed lives. more

GEIKO

Richard Ševčík / Jan Matásek

A ballet inspired by the real life of geisha Mineko Iwasaki and by her autobiography Geisha of Gion more

GIUDITTA

Franz Lehár

"It was just a fairy tale." more

Go back for murder

Agatha Christie

Who committed the murder? Was the real murderer sentenced? A remarkable staging (1960) of Agatha Christie’s well-known novel Five Little Pigs, in which a young woman, Carla, wants to clear her mother’s name. more

Heart

Richard Ševčík / Jan Rejent / Pavel Lochman

Professor CHRISTIAAN NEETHLING BARNARD, who performed a successful heart transplant in 1967. Despite the fact it’s been more than 50 years since this astounding surgical intervention, many ethical and religious dilemmas still persists. more

CHAPBOOK

Bohuslav Martinů

The beauty of dance, music and singing, from the roots of the Czech tradition which we draw on. Our ballet company joins the Year of Czech Music with a work that created in the 1930s, in a time of growing totalitarianism and looming crises. more

I am the Princess of Fools

Lenka Nota

The life of one of the most famous Czech writers as a chamber opera. more

Intro'24

Tomáš Javorský / Jan Kaňka

Jesus Christ Superstar

Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber

The legendary rock musical finally in Pilsen! Let yourselves be captivated by this phenomenal work, which has fascinated millions of viewers of several generations all over the world. more

Juliette

Bohuslav Martinů

Even in an opera you can let yourselves be carried you away on the waves of dreams and imagination. This masterpiece of Bohuslav Martinů urges us to do so. The Central Bureau of Dreams, where the story is set, is opened for everyone. All you need is enter it! more

Kytice

Antonín Dvořák / Richard Ševčík

Erben’s most famous work will be produced for the first time in Plzeň, as a ballet. more

La clemenza di Tito

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“My Praguers understand me.” That is probably Mozart’s most famous statement expressing his affection for the Czech lands and their inhabitants. It was for them that he composed his beautiful opera about Roman Emperor Titus on the occasion of the coronation of Leopold II. more

Let’s have a BALLet!

Movement is a manifestation of human life and dance is a guide to the cultural development of human society more

Libertin

Stephen Jeffreys

“You will not like me. No, really, you will not. Gentlemen will envy me and ladies will be appalled.” The sarcastic historical play from the Enlightenment era tells the story of John Wilmont, known as the Earl of Rochester, a cunning and talented rascal who had lived his short and wild life as a medieval rock star. more

Manon

Jules Massenet

The most famous opera version of the story of the fated but unfulfilled love between Manon and the Chevalier des Grieux. In spite of adversities and mishaps, the bond of their love remains strong. more

MASKERADE

Terry Pratchett

"It is said that if someone were to sit in box 8, a terrible disaster would happen." more

My Fair Lady

Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe

Based on Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw and film by Gabriel Pascal Legendary musical back on DJKT stage more

Nabucco

Giuseppe Verdi

When Verdi experienced booing during the performance of his comical opera King for a Day, he decided to never write an opera again. more

Nutcracker

Petr Iljič Čajkovskij

A Christmas story and a dream about Prince Nutcracker and the Mice comes to life in our theatre at the time of the most festive time of the year. The new adaptation of the well-known classical ballet will celebrate the 130th anniversary since its first staging in the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre. more

PHARAOH'S CURSE

Vojtěch Frank / Jakub Hojka

What can opera as a genre endure? And what would an opera about plundering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun look like? Is it possible to look for comedy in this story? more

Plzeňský pověsti

Milan Benedikt Karpíšek

Puss in Boots

Jiří Teml

This renewed production of the popular fairy-tale opera with fresh and imaginative music by a leading Czech composer takes you to places where the human and the animal worlds meet. more

Rabbit hole

David Lindsay-Abaire

An emotionally powerful family drama tells a story about a marriage that is undergoing a fundamental life test. Becca and Howie are growing apart. They were affected by one of the greatest family tragedies imaginable. more

Radúz and Mahulena

Julius Zeyer / Josef Suk

The famous poetic fairy-tale drama by the Czech author and playwright Julius Zeyer from 1896 had its premiere staging in the National Theatre in Prague just two years after its publishing. Since then it has become a stable piece regularly acted at various scenes across the country. more

Rebecca

Michael Kunze / Sylvester Levay

Based on Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name. A romantic mystery musical by the authors of Elisabeth more

Richard III

William Shakespeare

“But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, nor made to court an amorous looking-glass...” more

Six

Toby Marlow / Lucy Moss

The duel of Henry VIII's six wives as a raucous pop concert! After its success on West End and Broadway, the current global megahit is guaranteed to set the audience of the Velké divadlo (Grand Theatre) in Pilsen on fire. We will be one of the first theatres to present it on the European continent. more

So it is

Georges Feydeau

Italian writer and dramatist Luigi Pirandello, holder of the Nobel Prize for literature, belongs to the classics of modern drama and his comedy So It Is (If You Think So) is one of his most popular and most frequently presented pieces. more

Spanish fly

Franz Arnold / Ernst Bach

A less known but excellent comedy from the higher society of early 20th century targeting the middle-class morale issues will be the last drama premiere of season 2019/2020. more

Swan Lake

Petr Iljič Čajkovskij

If ballet has a notorious title in general awareness, it is undoubtedly Swan Lake by PI Tchaikovsky. more

Tajemství

Bedřich Smetana

The bartered bride

Bedřich Smetana

Since the first production in Pilsen in 1869, The Bartered Bride has never disappeared for a longer period of time from the opera repertoire and is therefore very well known to our audience. Generations of Pilsen opera singers have matured in the roles in this opera. more

The Bat

Johann Strauss

Many classical operettas have beautiful music, but the plot is too naive for today's viewer. more

THE CLOSET

Francis Veber

A modern social satire about how an invisible person can suddenly become a social star more

THE DIARY OF ONE WHO DISAPPEARED

Leoš Janáček

In an impressive mosaic of music, words, sounds and lights, we follow the life of Leoš Janáček, interspersed with his relationships with women, each of whom was his fated love... more

The Chattertooth Eleven

Eduard Bass

“Once upon a time there was a poor peasant named Chattertooth, and he had eleven sons. In his poverty he did not know what to do with them and so he had made them a football team.” more

The Kiss

Bedřich Smetana

“A full sister of The Bartered Bride.” That is how one of the most popular operas by the famous Czech composer could be characterised. more

The Little Mermaid

Petr Hora / Marika Mikanová

The supernal fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen in a ballet version is back at the Pilsen Theatre. more

The Little Prince

Jiří Pokorný / Gabriela Vermelho

This ballet based on the famous book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry views the world through a child’s eyes before it becomes an adult. more

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, OR A CRAZY DAY

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

“Those at the top are taking too many liberties.” more

The merry widow

Franz Lehár

The Merry Widow was the first Lehár’s global success. Without exaggeration, it can be said that every music number in this operetta is a little musical jewel. more

The taming of the shrew

Jan Kučera

'Who better recipe knows how to tame a shrew, they should tell me! I'd be grateful.' more

THE TROUBADOUR

Giuseppe Verdi

A moving story of two brothers who were separated by fate, only to be reunited in the face of tragedy. more

The Truth

Florian Zeller

A comedy about infidelity in which one lie follows another more

THE VISIT

Anna Vita

Ballet adaptation of the tragicomedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt more

Tchaikovsky

Anna Vita

A new performance for the Pilsen ballet ensemble tells the story of the brilliant composer’s complicated life, in which the moments of happiness and fame alternate with pain and desire for love. more

To Be or Not to Be

Nick Whitby

“There’s no reason why I should lose my nerve!” A comedy from the area of theatre in which the actors’ lives are dead serious. more

War of Goats

Dalibor Bárta / Václav Bárta st.

A little boy’s story on the background of the great history more

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Emily Brontëová

Hate is unfair. Love is even more so. The author died shortly after the publication of her only novel, which she signed with a male pseudonym in 1847. more

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