The 6th Lednice-Valtice Music Festival has ended on Saturday 16 October 2021, which marked the culmination of
the largest European exhibition of Antonio Vivaldi’s work in the last fifty years. From September 23 to October 16,
Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704,
Ensemble Matheus,
Concerto Aventino,
Ensemble Scaramuccia (Czech debut),
Gli Incogniti,
Accademia Bizantina,
Collegium Marianum,
Musica Florea and
Europa Galante (Czech debut) performed
in 9 concerts. Countertenor
Jakub Józef Orliński and violinist
Fabio Biondi were performing in their Czech debuts. The festival presented the contemporary world premiere of Vivaldi’s aria
“Eja voce sonora laeti cantate” RV Anh 59.29 and
Concert in C for oboe, strings and basso continuo in the arrangement for baroque transverse flute by Vivaldi’s pupil František Jiránek. The concerts were complemented by freely accessible lectures by the Czech
musicologist Václav Kapsa and the
director of the Italian Institute of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice Francesco Fanna and
photographs exhibition of the Lednice-Valtice area in cooperation with Nadační fond Moravská krása (Moravian Beauty Endowment Fund), which can be viewed free of charge until 30 November when presenting festival ticket. As usual, there were also educational programmes for children from the region. This year, the festival introduced two new locations:
Chateau de Frontière and newly renovated
Belveder in Valtice.
Despite the difficult situation, this year’s
overall attendance reached 91 percent. In total, the festival welcomed
2,400 spectators from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. Also, the festival offered
four streams of concerts: 23 September (Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704), 2 October (Jakub Józef Orliński & Ensemble Matheus), 9 October (Delphine Galou & Accademia Bizantina) and 16 October (Fabio Biondi & Europa Galante). The recording of the concert of Jakub Józef Orliński & Ensemble Matheus can be viewed until 2 November at
filmnazivo.cz. Part of the online entrance fees will go to support the collection Pro Moravu (For Moravia), organized by the Via Foundation, which LVMF joined only a few hours after the devastating tornado in South Moravia. To this day, festival was able to contribute CZK 55.469.
The festival was referred in both Czech (Česká televize, Český rozhlas, Deník, Lidové noviny, Harmonie, KlasikaPlus, OperaPlus, Radio ZET and others) and European media (Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Spain and the worldwide cultural portal bachtrack.com). In cooperation with CzechTourism, Centre of Tourism in South Moravia and Czech centres, the festival held a meeting of journalists from fourteen leading European media focused on culture and tourism.
The festival could not be realized in such a quality without the support of both the public and private sectors. The basis of the financial stability of the festival this year was the support of companies operating in the region of South Moravia, whose loyalty and help even in difficult times of pandemic festival highly values. For the 6th time, the general partner was
ZFP GROUP a.s. The principal partners were
STAVEBNÍ FIRMA PLUS s.r.o.,
AlcaPlast s.r.o.,
ALBAform Inc. and
CZECH FUND. The festival was held with the financial support of the
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic,
South Moravian Region,
City of Břeclav,
City of Valtice and
City of Lednice, State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic and
Lednice-Valtice Area. This year’s festival was also supported by the foreign institutes:
Italian Cultural Institute in Prague,
Acción cultural española AC/E and
French Institute in Prague. Members of the newly established LVMF Patronage Club also made a significant financial contribution to this year’s festival success. The main media partners were
Česká televize (Czech TV) and
Deník. The 6th Lednice-Valtice Music Festival was included by the Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic among the priority events in the region of South Moravia through the
CzechTourism.
Concert Archive 2021Photogalleries
