Prague – Karolína Baranová and Martin Pechlát won the Thália Award for the best performance in a drama this year. Baranová received it for her portrayal of Marie Antoinette in David Adjmi’s production of the same name, presented by the FX Šaldy Theater in Liberec. Pechlát was awarded for the role of the poet Otto von F. in the production of Moskoviad, performed by Divadlo X10 Praha. Viktor Kuzník from the National Theater Brno took home the prize for actors under 33 years of age. “I won’t go crazy,” Kuzník promised in his acceptance speech.
The Thália Award for the spread of theatrical art on television was received by screenwriter Marie Loucká, who was responsible for recordings of important theater productions. The jury appreciated her broad knowledge and willingness to give advice. The award was handed over to her sister by Petr Dvořák, CEO of Czech Television, a few hours before he left office.
This year, the award of the Czech Academy of Theater Artists was accepted by the Czech writer, playwright, screenwriter and politician Milan Uhde, author of the popular Ballad for the Bandit. The award was presented to the former Minister of Culture by the current Minister Martin Baxa (ODS).
According to the jury, one of FX Theater Šalda Baranová’s most cast actresses performs her role by giving the audience a multifaceted image of her, but also her vision of the queen’s tragic to tragicomic fate, story and character. It stands out for its deep penetration into the character of the character it presents as a contemporary naive young girl, spoiled, wasteful, blind to a world other than the one that surrounds her. “I thank all my colleagues for making it all the way to the queen,” said Baranová after receiving the award.
The actors of Dušan David Pařízek’s production of Moskoviad co-create a magical image of the collapsing Soviet Union. Pechlát, as one of the author’s alter egos, portrays both the absurd comedian and the distress of the era ending with all his actions. According to jury president Jana Paterová, Moskoviad is a very strong commentary on the war in Ukraine.
Hana Holišová and Tomáš Savka won the Thálie Award in the musical, operetta and other musical-dramatic genres category this year. František Zacharník, a recognized professional director, librettist, actor and lyricist, received the Thália Award for Lifetime Achievement.
“I said goodbye to the Brno operetta and opera twenty-two years ago,” said Zacharník, who could not attend due to illness, to the audience at the National Theater in Prague and to television viewers.
Holišová received Thália for the title role in the musical Marta, which was presented by the Summer Stage of Museo Kampa in Prague in honor of Marta Kubišová. According to the jury, Holišová literally reincarnated herself in Kubišová, without imitating her in any way.
Savka was awarded for his portrayal of Max Bialystock in the production of the musical Producers from the repertoire of the National Theater of Moravian-Silesian Ostrava. He presented the Broadway producer Bialystock Savko as a vile and immoral producer. He also received the Thalia for his performance in the role of Jiří Suchý in the production Jonáš a tingl-tangle, which is also in the repertoire of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre.
In the ballet category this year, Helena Arenbergerová, one of the most outstanding personalities of the contemporary Czech dance scene, received the Thalia Award. National Theater Ballet member Matěj Šust won the male part. Solo dancer and ballet master Miroslava Pešíková, who worked at the National Theater from 1971 to 1997, received the Thália Award for lifetime achievement in the category of ballet, dance and movement theater.
Arenbergerová received Thália for a solo role in the production of Where by the 420People group, together with Václav Kuneč, she also participated in the choreography. The duet plays out the intimacy between the two in a purely personal dance statement, without cliches, without annotations. She creates an image full of elusive tension from the proximity of two strangers, through contemporary dance, which is a completely natural and perfect means of expression for Helena Arenbergerová, the jury said.
Šust has the Thalia Award for the role of Prince in the production of Cinderella, which was presented by the National Theater in Prague with music by Sergei Prokofiev. According to art critics, Šust has been an unmissable, distinctive personality of the National Theater Ballet for a long time, and with his great technical and unique expression, he impressed and convinced even in the current production of Cinderella. According to the jury, his prince is “nice, boyishly direct and bursting with energy”.
Becka McFaddenová received the Thalia Award in the category of alternative theater for her performance in the production of Black Dress at the Venus stage in Švehlovka in Prague. In the puppet theater category, Jiří Kniha won the same award for the production Five Times Around the World, presented by the independent theater group Tygr v tísni Praha.
The author’s performance Black Dress is a staged lecture in which McFadden, who lives and works in Prague and London, searches for and names her Self through her body and the constellation of elegant black dresses she wore in her life and which she wears in front of the audience, shows off in them, she dances. The lecture is accompanied by video projections. According to the jury, the originally British-American performer escapes the pitfalls of theatricality, is matter-of-fact and raw in movement. During the performance, she is communicative, relaxed and accepts, comments and names the complexity of her being – body, family and intellectual background, mental attitude and physical expression.
In the production Five times around the world with the music of Marek Doubrava, the actor Kniha plays a large number of diverse characters, which he can distinguish and characterize in a precise summary. Although the entire story revolves around the main character, the traveler Barbora Markéta Eliášová, the book’s small and very diverse heroes from many corners of the world maintain the pace of the performance and add dynamism, lightness and wit to it, the jury appreciated.
This year, mezzo-soprano Arnheidur Eiríksdóttirová and tenor Jaroslav Březina received the Thália Award in the opera category. They succeeded in the works of Richard Strauss The Pink Cavalier and Salome. Bass player Jan Hladík was awarded for lifetime championship.
“I am sending greetings from my favorite city, where I worked as a soloist for 48 years,” said Hladík, who remained loyal to the opera troupe of the National Theater Brno throughout his life.
Icelandic mezzo-soprano Eiríksdóttirová, who has been a soloist of the National Theater Opera in Prague since the 2020/21 season, impressed the jury with her role as Octavian in the production of The Pink Cavalier at the Prague State Opera. The extraordinary nature of this character from Richard Strauss’s opera lies not only in the demandingness of singing with a tonal range from alto to soprano heights, but also in the fact that it is a so-called panty role, where the singer represents a young man on stage.
Březina, who excels in character tenor roles and at the same time works in baroque operas with coloratura parts, won the Thalia for the role of Herod in the production of Salome. Directed by David Radok, it was performed by the Janáček Opera of the National Theater Brno. According to the jury, Březina created “an excellent comprehensive study of a vain ruler, domineering and fearful, vainly smug and pitifully whining, tottering between the fear of God’s punishment and his own lust”.
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2023-09-30 19:33:00
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