An exhibition about Josef Mysliveček will open today in the Clam-Gallas Palace in Prague
Update: 20/10/2022 00:20
Issued by: 20/10/2022, 00:20
Prague – Josef Mysliveček, detto Il Boemo (1737–1781) exhibition will open today in the newly reconstructed Clam-Gallas Palace, prepared as part of the release of the film Il Boemo. Daniel E. Freeman’s book entitled Josef Mysliveček is also published on that occasion. The exhibition, which will introduce visitors to the composer’s life story and work, will be open to the public from October 21 to January 29 next year.
The pictorial materials present visitors to the Italy of Mysliveček’s time and acquaint them with the world and customs of those who commissioned Mysliveček’s operas, with upbringing as the fate of castrati, outline the adventures of travel at that time and outline the problems of the lives of artists of that time. The exhibition will include film costumes and wigs made for director Petr Václav’s film Il Boemo. It will also be possible to watch a projection of Myslivečka’s arias, filmed for the film Il Boemo, including bonus materials. The recordings were made in collaboration with the baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 under the baton of Václav Luks and will feature leading world soloists.
Among others, writer and musicologist Freeman, director Petr Václav, conductor Václav Luks and actor and singer Vojtěch Dyk participated in the opening ceremony of the exhibition. The opening of the exhibition will be with the launch of the book by Freeman, who will be involved in the creation of the film Il Boemo as a consultant.
The exhibition is set in the hall of the Clam-Gallas Palace, which is open to the public after many years of reconstruction. One of the largest Baroque aristocratic palaces will be used primarily by the Prague City Museum, which will thus gain space for the presentation of part of its collection from the Baroque period.
Composer Josef Mysliveček (1737 to 1781), one of the most famous European opera composers of the second half of the 18th century, a teacher and friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed 30 operas, ten oratorios, symphonies, concerts, overtures and a lot of chamber and church music.