Repertoire

SELECTED ORIGINAL WORKS: MINIOPERAS AND OTHERS

Loupežnická nevěsta (The Robber Bride) (premiered on 17 March 2007; Kolowrat Theatre, Prague)     10'
A comical miniopera based on the Japanese Kyogen Yasematsu.
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: S + B; vn, vla, cl, fg

Listonoš aneb Krytí plemenné něvské maškarády (The Postman, or Breeding the Neva Masquerade; premiered on 17 March 2007; Kolowrat Theatre, Praha)     10'
A comical miniopera for Jakub and Terezie Tuček.
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: S + B + B; vn, vla, cl, fg

1st version:
Listonoš, Mortierové a krytí plemenné kočky (The Postman, the Mortiers and the Breeding of Pedigree Cats; premiered on 22 July 2006; Benecko in Krkonoše)     cca 7'
A comical miniopera for Jakub and Terezie Tuček.
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: S + B + B; cl, vcl, pf

Ondřej Kyas, Triple Concerto for flute, concerto, bassoon and strings (premiered on 20 and 21 July 2006; Brno and Spytihněv)     21'
Premiere Cast:
Iveta Kundrátová – flute
Pavla Caletková – clarinette
Zdeněk Škrabal – bassoon
Conducted by Tomáš Hanák

Martin Petrík, Elán concerto grosso (for flute, oboe, strings and basso continuo)

Mluvící dobytek aneb Tajemné kosti (The Talking Cow or the Mysteries Bones)
A three-part horror opera of the Pardubice Region for oboe, clarinette, viola, bassoon, small male choir and solo monsters
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek (based on the stories by Hubert Krejčí and Aleš Roleček)
Cast: ob/fl, cl, vla, fg
     Consists of:
1 Smějící se hlava (The Laughing Head; premiered 6 June 2004; Brno, The Old Town Hall)     15'
     The mysterious dancing master at the Pardubice Castle. A legend from Lukovna. A Cantata
     Voices: SB + male choir
 2 Labe (The River of Elbe; premiered on 6 June 2004; Brno, The Old Town Hall)     6'
     A lyrical hydrological aria.
     Voices: Bt + SATB choir
 3 Mluvící dobytek (The Talking Cow; premiered on 25 January 2005; Brno, Spolek Café)     30'
     Mysterious pots under the Kunětice Mountain, cattle and Czech folk. An opera
     Directed by Tomáš Studený
     Voices: SATBtBB

Chůze aneb Podpatek, pinč a paní (The Walk, or The Heel, the Pinch Dog and the Lady; premiered on 25 January 2005; Brno, Spolek Café)     7'
A city miniopera for a soprano, small male choir and a messenger of good news accompanied by a wind trio.
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: S + male choir; ob, cl, fg (or vn, vla, vcl)

Metařka listí (The Sweeper of Leaves; premiered on 7 December 2003; Brno, Spolek Café)     14'
Late autumn opera for a soprano, a trouser role and a small male choir
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek (+ Vít Spilka)
Cast: S + A + TTBtBtBB; fl, vla, vcl, cemb

Rýbrcoulova tůň (Rubezahl's Pond; premiered on 22 June 2003; Brno, Spolek Café)     25-28'
An autumn Krkonoše opera for a Wanderer, a Local Villager and a mountain spirit, with a prelude for a Meteorologist and a Fog
Music: O. Kyas, P. Drábek
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: STBtB; ob/fl, cl, vn, vla, vcl/fg, cemb

Mladý pán (The Young Lord; premiered on 22 June 2003; Brno, Spolek Café)     6'
A miniopera based on a Japanese anecdote
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: TB + SATB; vn, vla, vcl, cemb

Podkova profesora Bohra (Professor Bohr's Hoof; premiered on 27 October 2003; Brno, Spolek Café)     5'
A miniopera for a journalist and a scientist, based on an anecdote
Music and libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: TBt; ob, cl/vla, vn, vn/vla, vcl, cemb

Dva bratři (The Two Brothers; premiered on 14 October 1999; Brno, CED, Husa na provázku)     14'
A countryside opera for two brothers, a narrator and an angel
Music: O. Kyas, P. Drábek
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: STB; ob, fl, (vcl,) pf/cemb

Odchod (The Exodus; premiered on 15 December 2008; Polárka Theatre, Brno)
Czech national miniopera for an indeterminate male voice and choir of Czechs; the first part of the Přemysliden-ring pentalogy, inspired by Lubor Pokluda
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: B + SSBB; vn, vla, cl, fg

Zpívající ženich (The Singing Bridegroom; premiered on 15 December 2008; Polárka Theatre, Brno)
A courtship for a singer, a nonsinger and an exposed soprano, based on the Japanese Kyogens Fukitori and Iwahashi
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: S (tacet) + T + B; vn, vla, cl, fg

Muž a žena v loďce (Husband and Wife on a Boat; premiered on 31 October 2008; Polárka Theatre, Brno)
“I have a wife” – a minioperatic marriage crisis inspired by a story from Věna and Zdeněk Hrdlička's Smích je mým řemeslem
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: S + B; vn/ob, vla, cl, fg

Ondřej Kyas: Prázdné ulice (The Empty Streets; premiered on 9 November 2007; OESTIG, Vienna)
A phantasy for strings on the motifs of Michal Ajvaz's novel


OTHERS' WORKS

Opera česká o komínku (1775)
(Opera bohemica de camino, The Czech Chimney Opera; premiered on 22 February 2003; Brno, Zemanova kavárna Café)     15'
Cast: SATB; vn I+II, vcl, cemb

Johann Sebastian Bach, Kaffeekantate (The Coffee Cantata) BWV 211
(Kaffee-kantate in a new Czech translation; premiered on 23 June 2005; Brno, Dům pánů z Kunštátu)     25'
Czech libretto: P. Drábek
Cast: STB; fl, vni I+II, vli, vcl, cb, cemb


SELECTED ORCHESTRA REPERTOIRE

Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto in D minor for violin, oboe, strings and basso continuo BWV 1060R

Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto in E major for violin, strings and basso continuo BWV 1042

Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto in D minor for 2 oboes, strings and basso continuo RV 535

Joseph Haydn, Concerto in C major for cello and orchestra Hob. VIIb:1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimentos D major, B flat major and F major for strings KV 136, 137 a 138

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ein musikalischer Spass (The Musical Joke) KV 522

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenade in G: “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” KV 525

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adagio and fuga in C minor KV 546

Edvard Grieg, The Holberg Suite (op. 40)

Leoš Janáček, Suite for strings

Kurt Anton Hueber, Belliniana - a suite for string orchestra

Kurt Anton Hueber, Papageniana - variations for string orchestra, op. 36

Paul Hertel, Hotel Metropol for string orchestra

Maximilian Kreuz, Sonorité viennoise for strings Wv. 61

Antonín Dvořák, Serenade in E major, op. 22

Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria, R589

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OLDER COMPOSITIONS
(WHICH DO NOT REALLY BELONG TO THE REPERTOIRE,
from the times before the Ensemble was founded)

The Parrot (premiered on 15 April 1999; Brno, Skleněná louka)     27'
An English opera based on E. A. Poe's The Raven and his essay The Philosophy of Composition
Music: O. Kyas, P. Drábek
Libretto: E. A. Poe; adapted by P. Drábek
Cast: TBtB + spoken role; pf

Murder in the Cathedral
(premiered on 10 December 1999; Brno, Lužánky)     130'
A stage oratorio in English of T. S. Eliot's play, for actors, solo voices, a female choir and a small orchestra
Music: O. Kyas, P. Drábek
Libretto/Text: T. S. Eliot
Directed by: P. Drábek
Cast: 7 male actors (4 of them singers), 4 solos and female choir; vn, vcl, cb, fl, recorder, ob, cl, fg, pf)

Phil and Sophy, or The Marriage of True Minds      18'
(premiered on 5 April 2003; Hustopeče u Brna)
An allegorical opera in English for a special occasion
Music: O. Kyas
Libretto: P. Drábek, Don Sparling
Cast: ABB + mixed choir; fl, ob, vn, vla, vcl