Jiří Kadeřábek – No Man
Composer and conductor
Jiří Kadeřábek
Director
Katharina Schmitt
Libretists
Katharina Schmitt & Lukáš Jiřička
Set & Costume Design
Patricia Talacko
Dramaturgy
Lukáš Jiřička
Photographer
Patrick Borecký
Cast
Eliška Gattringerová, Sylva Čmugrová, Jan Mikušek, Jakub Tolaš, Josef Škarka, Jiří Štrébl
Premiere
March 31st 2017 National Theater/Opera, Prague
No Man is an opera about the construction and the demolition of a gigantic Stalin monument in Prague in the 1950s and about the fate of its sculptor, Otakar Švec. The piece was developed as a commision for the Czech National Theatre and the space of the brutalist building of the Nová Scéna stage.