Jan Šťáva

From the House of the Dead & Glagolitic Mass (2023)

Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian prison in the company of misfits, murderers and theives, Dostoevsky was inspired to write his novel Notes from a Dead House, telling his brother at the time: ' ...

The Jacobin - National Theatre Brno (2023)

'We are from Bohemia and you ask if we can sing?' An unknown couple arrives in a small Czech village from abroad and most of the locals watch them with suspicion. Only the old teacher Benda, a lover of music, opens his door to them, only to find that the s ...

Destiny (2021)

A young woman in love with a composer is forced by her mother to take a rich suitor. When the two lovers are reunited years later, happiness is theirs for the taking, but a tragedy happens that changes everything. Robert Carsen's premiere of Destiny opene ...

Don Giovanni (2018)

Jakub Jan Ryba – Česká mše vánoční „Hej, mistře!“ (2014)

An indispensable symbol of Christmas. J. J. Ryba's most popular composition performed by A. Poláčková, V. Hajnová, P. Nekoranec, J. Šťáva, the En arché chamber choir, the Česká píseň mixed choir, and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted b ...