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The Brno National Theatre Will Hold Two Auditions. It Is Also Looking for Dancers and New Faces of Its Campaign
The Brno National Theatre is looking among its audience for new faces for a campaign for the upcoming season which will feature a total of 16 new productions. The Janáček Opera Ensemble announces auditions for movement-dance roles in the opera production of Katya Kabanova directed by Robert Carsen. more
Bonjour Brno Festival: Music, Dance Workshops and Films
French-speaking nations will present their culture through theatrical performances, concerts, films, art workshops and gastronomy. more
Pavel Haas Quartet Won the BBC Music Magazine Award
Pavel Haas Quartet, residential artists of this year's Concentus Moraviae Festival, won the prestigious award for their album with quartets by Bedřich Smetana. more
Guests at the birthday concert of Vladimír Merta in the Mersey Club in Brno will include violinist Jan Hrubý and pianist and guitarist Ondřej Fencl. more
Prague Cello Quartet: Charity Concert to Support the Purchase of a New Organ
Young violoncellists of the Prague Cello Quartet will perform at the Besední dům (Concert Hall) to support the purchase of a new organ for the Holy Trinity Church in Brno-Královo Pole. more
News: Brno Will Stand as a Candidate for the Title of the UNESCO Creative City of Music
The intention to run for the title of the 2017 UNESCO Creative City of Music was approved by the Brno City Council on 29 March. more
Tanec a Handicap (Dance and Disability) is a festival of physical theatre and expressive dance in Brno. In the Czech Republic, it is the only festival that gives space to dance groups, in which both disabled and healthy people perform together. more
Days of Polish Culture in Brno: Music, Films, Literature
The Days of Polish Culture will be held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the partnership between Brno and Poznań. The programme offers concerts, films, the commemoration of the 150th birthday of the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, a photo exhibition, gastronomy, and a children’s workshop and competition. more
Brno International Tap Dancing Festival: Dancing in the Streets, Exhibition and Dance Lessons
The festival will officially open with a dance flashmob at Freedom Square, the highlight of the event will be the Great Tap Dancing Show in the Sono Centre in Brno. The accompanying programme offers an exhibition of tap dancing-themed photographs, dance lessons and seminars led by foreign lecturers. 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
