This year’s edition of the Smetana’s Litomyšl festival was one of the most successful in the history of the festival and among other large Czech festivals. One of the factors for this success was the dramaturgy of the year, which was covered by the theme “…and love again”. It was a welldeserved caress for listeners, spectators and musicians after two bitter years of COVID-19. The dozens of exhibitions which accompanied the music as part of the framework of Smetana’s Creative Litomyšl were also wonderful, and headed again by Plan B, i.e. the intervention of objects into the exterior of the beautiful town. The theme and programme for 2023 are, of course, ready, and we will present them to the public in the spring. But for a long time, we have also been working intensively and with pleasure on the 2024 edition, when the whole music-loving world will celebrate the bicentenary of Litomyšl native Bedřich Smetana.
Pavel Kysilka
President and Chairman of the Board of the Smetana’s Litomyšl Festivalvalu Smetanova Litomyšl
