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Life Without the Internet in the Divadlo na Orlí: The Original Musical Offline!
The story of the musical comes from the book Without the Internet. My Half Year Offline by German journalist and editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung, Alex Rühle. Offline! tells of the experiences of a person who gave up the internet willingly for half a year. The musical was studied by the graduating year of musical students of the Theatre Faculty of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, and the production is the original idea of dramaturge Martin Sládeček and composer Mario Buzzi, directed by Lukáš Kopecký. more
Romeo and Juliet to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the world premiere in Brno
Prokofiev's ballet drama Romeo and Juliet had its world première at the National Theatre Brno on 30 December 1938 (at the today’s Mahen Theatre, at that time called Na hradbách Theatre) with choreography by Ivo Váňa Psota. The current performance will be its seventh premiere production since 1938. The National Theatre Brno ballet ensemble will present a production directed by Martin Glaser with choreography by Mário Radačovský. Musical production has been undertaken by Pavel Šnajdr. more
The JazzFestBrno International Jazz Festival, which lasts from March to May this year, extends its current program of electro-jazz evening called Tension at the Praha Club in Brno, workshops for children JazzFestBrno for Children at Café Práh and concerts in Kyjov, Tišnov and Miroslav. more
Encounter of Richard Novák and Johannes Brahms
Brno bass singer Richard Novák will be accompanied during his recital by Kostiantyn Tyshko and Vladimír Krátký. Audience will be treated to Die schöne Magelone by Johannes Brahms. more
Folklore and Feelings: Cimbalom band Kubíci from Horňácko district
The 7th part of the Folklore and Feelings [in Czech: Folklor a city] project will take place again in the Café Era in Brno. As a guest of the evening will appear the cimbalom band Kubíci from Horňácko district. more
Musical Stocktaking 2019: Zámečník, Emmert, Novák and Hartmann
Ensemble Opera Diversa introduces the Music Inventory, which has been traditionally dedicated to less renowned works, not only by Czech composers. This time, it also commemorates the anniversaries of the years 1939 and 1969. The programme features works by František Emmert, Evžen Zámečník, K. A. Hartmann and Jan Novák. The soloists of the evening are violinist Milan Paľa and pianists Kristýna Znamenáčková and Lucie Pokorná, the conductor is Gabriela Tardonová. more
The 10th Year of Beatfest as a Memorial to Oldřich Veselý
The Brno rock musician Oldřich Veselý died in the January of last year. This year’s tenth Beatfest has the subtitle Memories of Olda Veselý. There will be appearances from Roman Dragoun & His Angels, Miloš Makovský & Neopak, Lešek Semelka & SLS, Synkopy 61, Folk Team and others. more
A Brno Swan Lake in a Renewed Premiere
The ballet company of the National Theatre in Brno is performing Swan Lake in a renewed premiere to mark the centenary of the first performance in the National Theatre in Brno. The production is the work of choreographer and director Robert Strajner. After twenty years the Brno Swan Lake is returning to the repertoire in an entirely new artistic conception. Roman Šolc is taking care of the costumes, the stage sets were designed by the British artist Peter Horne, who already did the same for the ballet The Nutcracker Louskáček. The orchestra is being conducted by Robert Kružík. more
The band The Shookies has recently had concerts with the Irish formation Interference and Glen Hansard and has also released a new single, Lonely & Weak. In March, they are planning to christen a second album, Sooner or Later, which is being created in cooperation with producer Tomáš Neuwerth in the Animan studio in Kopřivnice. The Brno christening of the album will take place in the Melodka club. more
A joint performance by three flamenco dancers from different corners of the world will take place in Brno’s Buranteatr theatre. Lucía Ruibal, La Libu and La Rubia will perform together with the singer Juan Cárdenas and the flamenco guitarist Morenito de Trian. 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
