Closing concert of The Leoš Janáček International Music Festival.

We will close the Festival with exultant carnival colours, but also delicate song melodies of French and Czech classics, performed by artists who like to return to the Janáček Festival and we are always happy to welcome them again.

Antonín Dvořák
Carnival Overture, Op. 92

Bohuslav Martinů
Magic Nights (three songs to Japanese lyrical poetry for soprano and orchestra, H 119)

Henri Duparc
Songs for Soprano and Orchestra

George Bizet
Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9

Kateřina Kněžíková – soprano
Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava
Robert Jindra – conductor
Jiří Vejvoda – speaker