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After a gap of two years, Rock legend Mark Lanegan, who was with Kurt Cobain at the beginning of the wave of garage rock in the 90s, will be in Brno presenting his new disc Gargoyle. The concert by Mark Lanegan will also include the American musician Joe Cardamone and the Belgian soul singer Lyenn. more
The Leitnerova Club: Open once more
The ceremonial re-opening of the Leitnerova Club will take place tomorrow. The event will include stand-up comedy, concerts and silent disco. Among those performing will be Lucie Ingrová, Jiří Balák, Lukáš Rieger, Acute Dose, DJ Romeo and DJ PDCH. more
The Janáček Brno 2018 Festival publishes its programme: Ivo van Hove, Robert Carsen and David Pountney
The 6th year of the international opera and music festival is to take place in the newly reconstructed Janáček Theatre. There will be performances from directors and interpreters such as Ivo van Hove, Robert Carsen, Kornél Mundruczó, Alvis Hermanis, David Pountney, Tomáš Hanus, Tomáš Netopil, Thomas Adès, Simona Houda-Šaturová, the Haas Quartet and many others. more
The premiere of the opera The Wise Woman will be full of percussion instruments
The Chamber Opera of the Music Faculty of the Janáček Academy of Musical Arts is preparing a work by the German composer Carl Orff. The opera production of The Wise Woman (Die Kluge) there will be five percussionists working on more than twenty instruments and two pianists. The premiere will take place in the Divadlo na Orlí. more
The Mezzosoprano Magdalena Kožená sings together with Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers on a new CD with musical tunes by Cole Porter. The album is being issued today by their new label Brnofon. more
Sokol Brno I Symphony Orchestra: Call for musicians, singers and choirs
It will soon be six year since the death of President Václav Havel. The Sokol Brno I Symphony Orchestra in cooperation with the Theatre Goose on a String will be following up on last year’s event, the Czech Christmas Mass by J. J. Ryba with the subtitle "Hej Václave" (“Hey, Václav”). The orchestra is looking for musicians who want to be part of the event this year. more
News: The Leoš Janáček Archive is now entered in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register
UNESCO has awarded the city of Brno another title. The Leoš Janáček Archive is now part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. To date five Czech representatives have been entered into the Register. more
On Thursday Brno’s Fléda club will play host to the group Mydy Rabycad, who will be arriving with their new album M.Y.D.Y., an innovative lighting design, sets and costumes. more
News: Winterreise performed by Jan Martiník and David Mareček. Tomorrow on the ČT Art TV channel
Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise will be heard as interpreted by the singer Jan Martiník and the pianist David Mareček. You can watch it tomorrow on the ČT Art TV channel. more
Pavel Šporcl issues a Christmas album. As part of his tour he will also visit Brno
Pavel Šporcl has recorded his first Christmas album with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the conductor Sebastian Lang–Lessing. It is called Christmas on the Blue Violin. The guests on the album are the Czech choir Boni pueri and the harpist Jana Boušková. more
Connection, unity, contemplation - these words can be used to describe the musical evening of Schola Gregoriana Pragensis under the direction of David Eben and organist Tomáš Thon, which took place yesterday as part of the Easter Festival of Sacred Music at the church of St. Thomas. Not only the singing of a Gregorian chant, but also the works of composer Petr Eben (1929-2007) enlivened the church space with sound and colour for an hour. more
With a concert called Ensemble Inégal: Yesterday at the church of St. John, Zelenka opened the 31st edition of the Easter Festival of Sacred Music, this time with the suffix Terroir. This slightly mysterious word, which is popularly used in connection with wine, comes from the Latin word for land or soil, and carries the sum of all the influences, especially the natural conditions of a particular location and on the plants grown there. This term is thus metonymically transferred to the programme of this year's VFDH, as it consists exclusively of works by Czech authors, thus complementing the ongoing Year of Czech Music. more
For the fourth subscription concert of the Philharmonic at Home series, which took place on 14 March at the Besední dům and was entitled Mozartiana, the Brno Philharmonic, this time under the direction of Czech-Japanese conductor Chuhei Iwasaki, chose four works from the 18th to 20th centuries. These works are dramaturgically linked either directly through their creation in the Classical period or by inspiration from musical practices typical of that period. The first half of the concert featured Martina Venc Matušínská with a solo flute. more
The second stop on the short Neues Klavier Trio Dresden's Czech-German tour was at the concert hall of the Janáček Academy of Music on 6 March at 16:00. A programme consisting of world premières by two Czech and two German composers was performed in four cities (Prague, Brno, Leipzig and Dresden). more
The last opera première of the National Theatre Brno this year was Hurvínek Sells the Bride, which was co-produced with the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre. The première continued the thematic focus associated with the Year of Czech Music and took place on 24 November in the large hall of the Reduta Theatre. more
