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A cycle of mini-operas entitled Mluvící dobytek a tajemné kosti [Talking Cattle and Mysterious Bones] was written by court diverse authors – composer Ondřej Kyas and librettist Pavel Drábek. The Ensemble Opera Diversa will present a restored premiere of these "Elbe horrorroperras" in a new production by Kateřina Reichová. more
The international groove, jazz and funky festival enters its 12th season. For example, the group Dirty Loops will return to Brno to launch the festival. During October, bands from Sweden, USA, Great Britain, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and our neighbouring Slovakia will come to Brno. This year's festival hosts mostly female performers such as saxophonist Candy Dulfer, Judith Hill with her band or Danish bass guitar player Ida Nielsen. Tickets for the festival are already on sale. more
The poet, musician, publisher and organizer of underground festivals Jaroslav Erik Frič has died this morning. more
The Dokořán festival aims its focus most of all on music theatre. Under the auspices of the Brno City Theatre, this year it hosts eleven domestic and foreign theatre companies. The programme includes Czech premieres, concerts, street theatre and a charity market. Part of the festival's production will also take place in the Divadlo na Orlí theatre or in the Brno City Theatre courtyard. more
Kupodivu is releasing a new album named Živočišné pudy
The Brno funk-folk group Kupodivu [Surprisingly Enough] is releasing an album named Živočišné pudy [Animal Instincts]. After the EP's Písně kapesní [Pocket Songs] (2014) and Kupodivu [Surprisingly Enough] (2017), this is already their third serial record. The album contains 13 songs. The launch of the CD will take place at ArtBar Druhý Pád. more
The Young Gods, representatives of industrial rock, will visit the Czech Republic once again and come to Brno. This Swiss trio will bring their album Data Mirage Tangram. This record, full of audio experiments, is now being released after a nine-year break. The band's founding member, programmer Cesare Pizzi, who has now returned to the band, also contributed to the recording of the album. more
Ghettofest 2019: Please The Trees, Čankišou, Candish and more
The Ghettofest Street Festival takes place in an excluded location known as the "Bronx of Brno", for which this socio-cultural concept has been created. The whole event opens the boundaries of the imaginary "ghetto", encouraging natural encounters and coexistence in one city. The dramaturgically varied programme features concerts, workshops and guided tours of the neighbourhood. The festival stages will feature Čankišou, Candish, Feri And The Gipsies, Please The Trees and a lot more. more
Summer Evenings at Bishop's Court with NdB Ballet
The National Theatre Brno Ballet is preparing for an open-air performance. The Bishop's Court will host the traditional Summer Ballet Cocktail. more
The autumn Echoes of JazzFestBrno will take place for the sixth time in a row. This year they will belong to pianists. One of the most prominent representatives of contemporary Asian music production, Hiromi Uehara from Japan, will appear. Her show will be followed by a concert of the American jazzman Aaron Parks, who will appear in Brno in the role of bandleader with a project entitled Little Big. In the second part of the evening, Shai Maestro will perform with his trio. more
As the last of the opera premieres of this season, the NdB will present a production by one of the leading Czech directors, David Radok, who is returning to follow up on Modrovousův hrad/ Očekávání [Modrovous's Castle / Expectations]. This production combines two one-act works: Martinů's Three Fragments of Juliette and Poulenc's Human Voice. Radok is also the author of stage design. The musical production of the opera was led by the chief conductor of the Janáček Opera of the National Theatre Brno, Marko Ivanović. The main role will be performed by Jana Šrejma Kačírková, who will portray both Juliette and The Woman in Human Voice. The Danish tenor Magnus Vigilius is also returning to the Brno stage, this time in the role of Michele. The performance has been co-produced with the Swedish Opera in Gothenburg. 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
