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Kamenka Open: Korajunglejazz, Funky chicken or Divadlo Hysterie
The weekend festival in Brno’s Kamenná kolonie offers concerts, screenings of documentaries from the One World Festival and children’s theatre. more
Festival of Baroque Theatre in Mikulov: Ensemble Opera Diversa, Hof Musici, Divadlo Koráb and others
The Baroque theatre festival Moravský Parnas Johanna Georga Gettnera (The Moravian Parnassus of Johann Georg Gettner) commemorates the theatre tradition in Mikulov, which in earlier times was one of central Europe’s centres of theatre. The festival programme will include performances of plays, lectures and shows by comedians in the square. more
Znojmo Music Festival 2017: Pavel Šporcl, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Czech Ensemble Baroque and others
The 13th Znojmo Music Festival is taking place in Znojmo and its surroundings. This year marks the 500th anniversary of the appearance of the reformation priest Martin Luther, and thus the thematic lines of the festival are inspired by relations between Protestantism and Catholicism. more
Folkové prázdniny: Reyfado Lisboa, Iva Bittová & Čikori, Vilém Spilka Quartet, Blick Bassy and others
The international multi-genre festival Folkové prázdniny (Folk Holidays) in Náměšť nad Oslavou this year enters its 32nd year. The festival programme includes concerts, theatre performances, exhibitions, dances and events for children. The theme of the festival is “Of Dreams and Dreamers”. more
News: The Znojmo Music Festival is opened today by Pavel Šporcl
Today the 13th Znojmo Music Festival begins, dedicated to the Lutheran period. As part of today’s ceremonial opening concert the patron of the festival Pavel Šporcl will be performing along with the pianist Petr Jiříkovský with the Janáček Chamber Orchestra. The festival programme also offers appearances by the baroque orchestra Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Tour de varhany with Martin Jakubíček and the Story of Christ, which was created as a stage depiction of the works of Heinrich Schütz. more
Sold Laughter at the Brno City Theatre
The musical story based on the novel by James Krüss of the same name will be directed by Petr Gazdík from the Brno City Theatre. Jan Brožek and Martin Havelka will appear in the lead roles. more
News: Premiere of Figarka Today in the Orlí Street Theatre
The Orlí Street Theatre will premiere the new musical by Petr Štěpán and Miroslav Ondra today. Lukáš Janota is the author of the music. more
Brno Philharmonic and Kantiléna Choir to Celebrate Their 60th Anniversary with a Joint Concert
Soloists Pavla Vykopalová, Tomáš Kořínek and Jiří Sulženko and Kühnův dětský sbor (Kühn Children's Choir) will be guests of the Brno Philharmonic and Kantiléna in the Stadion Functionalism Hall. 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
