This year’s Tenebraes return to a unifying theme. After the ensemble performance of Zelenka’s Lamentations and Responsories or Responsories by Carlo Gesualdo da Venos, the conclusion of Holy Week will be made known with 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.
Thursday’s tenebrae will recall the traditional washing of feet on Maundy Thursday, in chants written in the antiphonary of Eliška Rejčka, the founder of the Cistercian monastery in Old Brno. Conceptually, the evening will be based on the attribute “aqua/water” and will draw on the element of water not only as a symbol of purification, but also, for example, on the motif of humility and equality, precisely from the perspective of the aforementioned foot-washing ritual.
Mandatum from the Cistercian monastery in Old Brno
female schola
Ensemble Versus
led by Zuzana Badárová
directed by Kateřina Křivánková
The concert will take place in WATER RESERVOIR No. 1
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.
