Festival preview: From the House of the Dead / Glagolitic Mass

A unifying line runs through all Leoš Janáček’s compositions like a red thread – deep humanity and original form. This is perhaps the most applicable to his two last great works – the opera From the Dead House, an abbreviated probe into the souls of prisoners, and the Glagolitic Mass, a special expression of faith in a mass based on an Old Slavonic text. As part of the Janáček Brno 2022 festival, a unique combination of the two works was created, where the scenic form of the Glagolitic Mass as a continuation of the opera From the Dead House gives both works a new statement about the power of faith in man.