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 opened the 2020 edition of the Janáček Brno Festival (International Opera Award winner 2019). It comprises some of Janáček’s most magnificent music, which sways from the peaks of romantic rapture to the depths of desperation and back again.

A stroll through the repertoire from the impressionist Claude Debussy to the ‘lone wolf’ Leoš Janáček by way of Alban Berg’s Second Viennese School and the late Romantic tradition of Richard Strauss and the lesser known Spanish composer Joaquín Turina.

Recently appointed Bavarian Chamber Singer, Pavol Breslik is one of the most respected tenors of our time. His live recital from National Theatre Brno accompanied by pianist Róbert Pechanec offers a selection of songs by composers who represented the progressive trends in music at the dawn of the 20th century.