What do new beginnings bring us? What feelings and emotions do they stir? Can a beautiful and promising beginning still end in disappointment? And what about promising beginnings in music? Will the new partnership between Markéta and our new conductor be the start of something with a happy ending?

Igor Stravinskij
The Rite of Spring — Part I: Dance of the Earth

Leonard Bernstein
Candide — Overture

Edvard Grieg
Two Lyric Pieces, Op. 68 No. 2 (“At the Cradle”)

Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra — Introduction

Sergej Prokofjev
Romeo and Juliet — Introduction and Dance of the Knights

Gerges Bizet
Carmen — Overture

George Frederic Handel 
Music for the Royal Fireworks — Overture

Edvard Grieg
Morning Mood

Vojtěch Johaník – host and presenter
Lenka Jaborská – concept and stage direction
Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava
Chuhei Iwasaki – conductor