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Roman Dragoun will perform at the 7th annual festival in Brno with the bands Progres 2, Futurum, T4, Roman Dragoun & His Angels, and Lidopop. more
News: Today the Concentus Moraviae international festival begins
The Concentus Moraviae 2017 international music festival of 19 towns and cities is on the theme “La Voce”. The festival concerns the theme of the human voice and singing in all its forms from chant through folk music to baroque opera and jazz. Claudio Monteverdi, whose 450th anniversary is being commemorated around the world this year, also dedicated his work to the human voice. The festival will give him special attention. The programme creator this year is Václav Luks, founder of the baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and the vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704. As part of today’s inaugural concert Cantar Lontano and the festival’s resident artist Marco Mencoboni will be performing. more
After a seven-year break the cult group Lvmen are returning to the concert stage with their new album Mitgefangen – Mitgehangen. Their support group for the concert are the sludge-metal group Nikander and there will also be a film screening. more
The musical actor and singer Dušan Vitázek is embarking on a solo career. He is looking for support on the Hithit portal for the recording of a CD and his first video. more
This third year of the festival will offer concerts of Czech and international interpreters, films and two screenings accompanied by live music. more
A Memorial Box to be Placed in the Foundations of the Hall for Brno
This Friday at the building site of the Janáček Cultural Centre a memorial box will be placed with writings recording the period of the building of the concert hall. more
Brno’s Municipal Theatre stages the musical Viki kráčí za štěstím
A new work by the dramatist Milan Uhde and the composer Miloš Štědroň is being performed this weekend on the musical stage of the Brno Municipal Theatre. The main roles are being taken by Lucie Bergerová and Petr Štěpán. The production was created under the direction of Juraj Nvota. more
National Theatre Brno Ballet: International Dance Day 2017
International Dance Day will be celebrated by Brno’s ballet together with guests on the piazzetta in front of the Janáček Theatre. Aside from performances it will be possible to visit a dance Open Class led by members of the ballet company. more
The app is the work of Tomáš Jelínek and will be available for downloading free, and it will be presented for the first time at the Dark Blue Festival. 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
