October 26, 2009
AmCham recommends to attend the XIV. International Music Festival Struny Podzimu
Held on November 4th 2009, 7:30 pm at Rudolfinum | MICHAEL YORK & LIBOR NOVÁČEK
The famous British theatrical and film actor Michael York as narrator of a captivating story about love and a broken heart!
- Richard Strauss: Enoch Arden, melodrama for reciter and piano, Op. 38
- Leoš Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Piano Sonata 1.X. 1905 in E flat minor ‘From the Street’
MICHAEL YORK – recitation
LIBOR NOVÁČEK – piano
To the accompaniment of pianist Libor Nováček, Michael York will deliver a captivating melodrama about love – a realistic variant of the return of Homer’s Odysseus to his homeland – with words by the leading poet of Victorian England, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The charismatic York, famous from award-winning films like Cabaret, The Three Musketeers, and Murder on the Orient Express, has performed roles in more than a hundred other films and theatrical productions, recited in numerous musical projects, and lent his sonorous voice to more than ninety audio books.
In 2002 York recorded the melodrama Enoch Arden with pianist John Bell Young, with whom he also performed it successfully in several important festivals in the USA and Europe. His current collaboration with the gifted Czech pianist Libor Nováček, living for many years now in Great Britain, has been arranged specially at the request of the Strings of Autumn Festival.
More information on www.strunypodzimu.cz.
Tickets:
Festival Information and Sales Centre (in the National Theatre box office), Ostrovní 1, Mon.-Thurs. 11 AM - 6 PM
Ticketpro – www.ticketpro.cz
At the concert site an hour before the beginning of the event.
Reservations: www.strunypodzimu.cz, tel.: 224 901 247 (Mon.-Thurs. 11 AM - 6 PM), e-mail: vstupenky@strunypodzimu.cz