This year’s tenebraes return to a unifying theme. After the ensemble performance of Zelenka’s Lamentations and Responsories or the Responsories of Carlo Gesualdo da Venos, the end of Holy Week will be marked by its corresponding chants, but in a completely unusual place and for the first time in a theatrical setting. The recently opened water reservoirs on the Yellow Hill in Brno resemble underground temple spaces.
In three days, each time in one of the three water tanks, different stories in different colourful forms of Gregorian chant will be heard and performed.
Wednesday evening, which could be described as a “via”, will take the audience on a symbolic journey through the last days and especially the feelings of Jesus Christ. The musical focus is on the forgotten Passion chants from the Jistebnice Canon and other related Czech manuscripts, whose earliest translations into Czech date from the first half of the 15th century.
The Passion story in 15th century Czech choral chants
mixed schola
Ensemble Versus
directed by Kateřina Křivánková
The concert will take place in WATER RESERVOIR No. 2
Tenebraes were created as part of the #vodojemyart project.
Thank you for the cooperation and support of TIC BRNO, co-organizer of the Dark Hours in the water reservoirs.
