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Affetto will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a charity concert for the Wheelchair League
The vocal-experimental group Affetto celebrates 20 years since its founding. The Wheelchair League (Liga vozíčkářů), which the ensemble will support as part of the charity concert, will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its existence. The joint celebration promises a musical performance accompanied by texts written by writers Ivan Jergl and Václav Uher. more
The Brno National Theatre presented the premiere shows of the new season
The upcoming opera season will start with the 7th Janáček Brno Festival. At that festival, the NdB Janáček Opera Ensemble will present the premiere of Janáček's opera Osud [Destiny] directed by Robert Carsten, which will open the festival. The second title will be Její pastorkyňa [Jenufa] under the direction of Claus Guth. His production team from London will also come with the acclaimed performer of Janáček's roles, Karita Mattila, who will render the role of Kostelnička. The opera ensemble is heading for a total of five premieres in the new season. The NdB Ballet will present Beethoven as the first premiere title of the season. The production with music by Ludwig van Beethoven, with choreography and direction of Mário Radačovský, will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of the composer. Jaroslav Milfajt and Ľudmila Várossová will take care of the stage and costume designs. The next title will be Stabat Mater with choreography by Pavel Šmok. more
The large courtyard of Špilberk Castle will host a double gig of the bands Monkey Business and J.A.R. in May this year. The concert is being prepared by the Fléda music club. more
Brno's music scene has been growing recently, expanding with a new festival. Pop Messe focuses on young popular music. The programme of the first season promises names such as Modeselektor, Algiers, Acid Arab, KOKOKO!, Sóley and many others. The two-day festival will take place in July 2020 in the premises of Bobycentrum and the former football stadium behind Lužánky Park. more
Ivo Kahánek and Bamberger Symphoniker led by Jakub Hrůša nominated for BBC Music Magazine Award
BBC Music Magazine nominated an album of piano concertos by Antonín Dvořák and Bohuslav Martinů among the best recordings of the year. The winner of the award will be decided by voting of listeners from around the world by 19 February 2020. more
Janáček Opera begins the year 2020 with a world premiere of the opera The Monument
The Janáček Opera ensemble is preparing the world premiere of a piece written specifically for it. The Monument is a tailor-made work for the stage of the Janáček Theatre, a big orchestra, ten soloists and three choirs: the opera choir, the Czech Academic Choir and the Brno Children's Choir. The opera production is being created under the direction of David Radok, who also wrote the libretto, while the music was written by the composer and chief conductor of the Brno opera ensemble Marko Ivanović. Svatopluk Sem, Markéta Cukrová, Roman Hoza and others will appear as soloists. more
VUS Ondráš hires new dancers
The Ondráš Military Art Ensemble is hiring a dancer for the professional section of its ensemble. Expected start of employment is 3 February 2020. more
National Security Council cancelled all cultural events for more than 100 participants
The National Security Council today decided to cancel all sporting, cultural and religious events for more than 100 participants with effect from tonight, 10 March 2020. more
Brno Philharmonic: Pictures at an Exhibition will be accompanied by visualisations of Cori O'Lan
This Thursday and Friday, Brno Philharmonic will present a programme entitled Pictures at an Exhibition, which will feature three great music pieces accompanied by visualisations of Cori O´Lan. These were created in collaboration with Ars Electronica, an organisation focusing on the use of latest technologies in art. The concerts will be conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. more
Singer Eva Pilarová, a native of Brno, died today 14 March 2020. She was 80 years old. 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
