Destiny
A young woman in love with a composer is forced by her mother to take a rich suitor.When the two lovers are reunited years later, happiness is theirs for the taking, but a tragedy happens that changes everything.Robert Carsen’s premiere of Destiny opened the 2020 edition of the Janáček Brno Festival (International Opera Award winner 2019).
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A young woman in love with a composer is forced by her mother to take a rich suitor. When the two lovers are reunited years later, happiness is theirs for the taking, but a tragedy happens that changes everything. Robert Carsen’s premiere of Destiny opened the 2020 edition of the Janáček Brno Festival (International Opera Award winner 2019). It comprises some of Janáček’s most magnificent music, which sways from the peaks of romantic rapture to the depths of desperation and back again.
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- Release date
- Nov 27, 2021
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- 1h 31m
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- Czech
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