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News: Change in the Ensemble Opera Diversa Concert Programme
The premiere of Emmert's symphony during the concert on 26 April has been cancelled due to the vocal indisposition of soloist Hana Škarková. more
Madama Butterfly for the Last Time This Season
It is the last opportunity for the audience from Brno to see Andriana Kohútková as Cio-Cio-San, Danish tenor Magnus Vigilius in the role of Pinkerton and Roman Janál as Sharpless in the famous piece by Giacomo Puccini. more
New Season of Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts: Reneé Fleming, Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko and Others
The Metropolitan Opera in New York published the programme of the 11th season of opera broadcasts. The season will open with a new staging of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde, followed by Mozart's Don Giovanni with Adam Plachetka in the lead role, and Rusalka. Live broadcasts in HD quality can also be seen in the Scala University Cinema and Reduta Theatre. more
At the beginning of May, Otevřená zahrada Brno will host singing workshops led by Lukáš Prchal and Alice Bauer. more
News: Berlin's Alternative Music in Film
In the 1980s, Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld and many others turned Berlin into one of the most exciting music scenes in the world. Visitors to the festival Days of European Film can enjoy it this evening in Brno. more
The ninth annual festival that takes place at the Brno Riviera offers a total of 19 concerts, contests and a children's programme, which will run all day Sunday. more
Ensemble Opera Diversa: Premiere of Symphony by František Gregor Emmert
On the occasion of the anniversary of the composer's death, the premiere of his 25th symphony will be performed in the Church of St. Augustine by Ensemble Opera Diversa. more
The Reduta Theatre will come alive with a dance project that gives new talented artists in the field of choreography an opportunity to shine. Performing artists will include Jan Fousek, Barbora Bielková, Markéta Habalová, Carolina Isach and others. Students of graphic design from FaVU VUT have also been invited to join the creative work. The project is open to the public. more
The Guitar Institute is organising a workshop under the guidance of rock guitarist, composer and singer Michal Pavlíček. 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
