Summer Festivities of Early Music
2nd international music festival
From the Riches of Czech Musical History
10 June – 26 July 2001
Incorporated into the extensive project organised by the National Gallery, The Glory fo the Baroque in Bohemia, the programme of the 2001 Summer Festivities offered a feast from the treasures of the Czech musical history. The programming encompassed music composed for both secular and sacred festivals, music which would sound in the palaces, gardens and churches of Prague in the 17thth century. and 18
The opening evening offered the Czech modern premiere of La Senna festeggiante by A. Vivaldi. The Vrtba Garden in the vicinity of Prague Castle witnessed a scenic performance of J. H. Schmelzer’s serenata Hercules und Onfale directed by Sigrid T’Hooft. Among the highlights of the festival counted the reconstruction of a historical Fair Festival in the Old Town of Prague on the occasion of the canonisation of St Peregrin Latioso (1727) and the modern premiere of the school play Amoris Divini Dilectio from 1694.
PROGRAMME
COURT FESTIVITIES
A. Vivaldi: La Senna festeggiante
Serenata (RV 693) from 1726; Czech premiere
Soloists: Simona Šaturová, Petra Noskaiová, Marek Rzepka
Collegium Marianum Orchestra, Prague
Peter van Heyghen (Belgium) – conductor
Sunday 10 June 2001, 7.30 pm
St Simon and Juda Church, Dušní, Prague 1
J. H. Schmelzer: Hercules und Onfale
Serenata with balletti performed in 1676 at the court of the emperor Leopold I.
Soloists: A. Hlavenková, I. Houkalová, P. Jančová, R. Prügl, V. Šafařík
Collegium Marianum music and dance ensemble
Barbara Maria Willi (Germany) – artistic director
Hana Barochová – choreography
Markéta Štormová – costumes
Sigrid T´Hooft (Belgium) – scenic design
Sunday 15 July 2001, 5 pm and 8 pm
Vrtba Garden, 25 Karmelitská St., Prague 1
Music for Europe
(J. A. Benda, Fr. Benda, W. F. Bach, C. Ph. E. Bach)
Kamila Zajíčková – soprano
Musica Aeterna orchestra (Slovakia)
Peter Zajíček – artistic director
Thursday 26 July 2001, 7.30 pm
Troja Chateau, U Trojského zámku 1, Prague 7
SACRED FESTIVITIES
D. F. Tallmann and A. Turner: Amoris Divini Dilectio
Piarist musical school drama with Passion theme (1694); modern premiere
Members of Kühn Children’s Choir
Collegium Marianum ensemble
Lukáš Vendl and Tereza Bytřická – artistic leaders
Sunday 17 June 2001, 7.30 pm
Baroque Library Hall of Servite Monastery, 19 Melantrichova St., Prague 1
Old Town Fair Festival of St. Peregrinus
A reconstruction of Baroque public festival with allegorical scenes performed on the occasion of canonization of a Servit saint (1727)
Sunday 24 June 2001, 5.00 pm
Courtyard of the Clementinum and Collegium Marianum, Prague 1
