What would happen if flowers took on human characteristics? What if they began to yearn, beg, complain, compete for attention, and seek their own happiness? The new original project BLOOM creates a fantastical world in which the roles of humans and plants are reversed in a peculiar way. This object-based opera—combining visual art objects, original spatial music, film, and live performance—will premiere on November 10, 2026, at Arnold’s Villa in Brno. A repeat performance will take place the following day, November 11.

BLOOM presents an unusual form of contemporary musical theater that straddles the boundaries of opera, visual installation, film, and the performing arts. It takes the audience through two contrasting worlds in which plants take on human characteristics and reveal our own desires, weaknesses, and notions of happiness.

A prominent visual element of the production is the original floral objects by Ivo Jedlička, which were created from a wide variety of materials—glass, ceramics, wood, metal, textiles, and papier-mâché. Their design is based on the central question of how human character can be expressed through artistic form.

Equally important is the original music by Sarah Jedličková, who approached each plant character as a distinct individual. In her creative process, she relied primarily on intuitive collaboration with the singers, whose vocal and expressive personalities were selected to match the nature of each individual flower.

Theme, concept: Sarah Jedličková, Ivo Jedlička, Ester Hauser Trčková 

Music: Sarah Jedličková 

Props: Ivo Jedlička 

Choreography: Markéta Vajdová, Helena Ratajová 

Performers: Tereza Krejčová, Šimon Klus 

Singers: Bella Adamová, Jan Cina, Jan Kukal, Tomáš David, Sára Vondrášková, Věra Maňásková, Radovan Jelen 

Libretto: Max Bitto, Kristýna Nebeská 

Costumes: Martin Humpolák 

Video: Radim Vaňous 

Production: Simona Dejmková 

Organizer: Intercultural Creative Life 

With financial support from: Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic, The Artist’s Life Foundation, Brno-Center, Brno City Hall  

Sponsor: MUDr. Eva Ryšavá