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This year's traditional gala evening with the awarding of awards of the audience DIVA will be in the Saturnin-like spirit. It is hosted by Ondřej Havelka, the swing melodies will be provided by the Melody Gentlemen. more
News: The band Čohanas Invites Its Fans to Today’s Filming of Its Music Video
Čohanas, a young band from Brno, will be filming their first music video in Kabinet múz today and they are inviting all their fans to join as extras. more
2016 Easter Festival of Sacred Music: Music Pilgrimage Through Brno Churches
The main theme of this year’s 25th International Festival is Heart/Refuge. The festival will feature nine concerts in Brno churches, three of them at night by candlelight. The programme includes works by Antonín Dvořák, Petr Eben or František Xaver Richter, whose oratorio La deposizione dalla croce di Gesú Christo will premiere in the Czech Republic. Some of the performers include the Brno Philharmonic, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, French choir Discantus, the Czech Philharmonic in Brno, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Ensemble Opera Diversa and Marek Eben as a reciter. more
Neřež: Concert on the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Zdeněk Vřešťál
The band Neřež will perform in the Sono Centre in Brno accompanied by Slovak singer Kateřina Koščová. They will also introduce their new album entitled Jen blázni překročí svůj stín (Only Fools Step Beyond Their Shadows). more
The crossover formation Hentai Corporation and thrash metal band Debustrol will celebrate their anniversaries. The Brno concert will take place at Fléda Club. more
Brno National Theatre Will Perform Carmen with an International Cast
After a year, the opera Carmen returns to the stage of Janáček Theatre in a new staging. Guest mezzo-soprano Atala Schöck from Hungary will perform in the lead role, and tenor Alexandru Badea from Romania as Don José. more
The culmination of the Itch My Ha Ha Ha Festival showcase, which takes place from September to March in Brno, will be the first and only performance of Cabaret Voltaire in the Fléda Club. Daniel Miller, the founder of the London label Mute, HuJo and Fiordmoss will perform with them. more
New Staging of the Opera Carmen at the Brno National Theatre
George Bizet’s opera Carmen is the fourth premiere of the season. Jana Hrochová, Alexandru Badea, Jakub Kettner and others will perform in the lead roles in the staging of young opera director Tomáš Pilař conducted by Ondrej Olos. more
This year's Hrnem Brnem club night will again take place simultaneously in Eleven Club, Favál, Melodka, Fléda, Mersey and Metro Music Bar, and it will also connect them with free H and B bus lines. A total of 25 bands, including Totální nasazení, Circus Problem, Funky Chicken, Atari Terror and more, will perform. 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
