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Latest: Zdenka Kareninová, a long-standing soloist of the Janáček Opera, has died
Today, 15 February 2020, Zdenka Kareninová, a long-standing soloist of the Janáček Opera in Brno, has died in her age of almost 90 years. more
The 11th Beatfest in Brno has a subtitle “A Trip to the Nineteen-eighties”. Laura a její tygři, Folk Team, Krausberry, Miloš Makovský, Futurum and Krabat will appear at KC Semilasso this year. more
Marathon of Music Brno 2020: The festival tailored for the city attracts with a number of new features
A summer walk around Brno's downtown where music sounds at every step? That was and will be the Marathon of Music Festival in Brno. The centre of Brno will resound with the festival already for the fifth time this August. The programme promises a great variety of genres, reputed names of artists, but also space for young talent. Once again, music will be played at unconventional venues and in rooms by Kateřina Šedá; concerts will newly be staged, for example, in a kitchen storage room or a in a children's room. more
Carnival festivity in the locality nicknamed "the Bronx of Brno" will take place for the second time this year. The aim of the event is to involve the local community and use the public space for meetings. This year's subheading is A Matter of the Heart. more
Cotatcha Orchestra is preparing a concert to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of jazz legends that have influenced the history of this genre. Among those to whom tribute is paid there are the bebop icon Charlie Parker, trumpeter Clark Terry, double Grammy winner Peggy Lee, pioneer of odd rhythms in jazz music Dave Brubeck and Modern Jazz Quartet bandleader John Lewis. Catalan vocalist Mar Vilaseca will appear as a guest. more
A journey around Europe with Czech Ensemble Baroque
Czech Ensemble Baroque is preparing a concert in the Besední dům, which will guide the audience through musical Europe of the Baroque period. The Singende Geographie [Singing Geography] suite by Georg Philipp Telemann will be accompanied by a Baroque fashion show performed by the Alla Danza Brno – Baroque historical dance ensemble. more
The Lady with the Camellias. Premiere of an original ballet in the NdB
The ballet ensemble of the National Theatre Brno will present an original ballet piece based on the novel by Alexander Dumas Jr. and music by Franz Schubert, in an arrangement by Andrei Pushkarev. This production was created under the leadership of the choreographer Valentina Turcu. Conductor Robert Kružík undertook the musical preparation of the performance with the orchestra of the Janáček Opera. more
Seminar on folk dance and costumes
The civic association Brněnsko tančí a zpívá (Brno Dancing and Singing) organizes a traditional seminar on folk dance, folk costumes and dialect in the Brno region. more
Brasil Fest Brno will celebrate one hundred years of the existence of Czech-Brazilian relations. The celebrations will justifiably take place in Brno, with which two Czechs are linked, who were the only ones who managed to qualify for the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as performers. They are dancers Veronika Lálová and musician Jakub Škrha. The festival will begin with a procession, and then it will continue with concerts and thematic workshops. more
The band Mňága a Žďorp will bring to Brno their new recording entitled Třecí plochy [Friction Surfaces]. Guest musicians on the album are singer Jitka Andrášková and keyboard player Milan Nytra, both of whom will attend the Brno concert at the Fléda club. 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
