News
The Brno – UNESCO City of Music team recently participated in the evaluation of the annual report for the to date four-year activities of two other member cities – Kingston (Jamaica) and Katowice (Poland). The city of Katowice, which has carried the title of UNESCO Creative City of Music since 2015, has managed to be inscribed on the cultural map of Europe. more
This year, the Brno Music Marathon will welcome Tinatin Tsereteli and Nicola Manzan
As part of this year's international festival Marathon of Music Brno 2019, guests from the partner UNESCO Cities of Music – Tinatin Tsereteli (Hanover) and Nicola Manzan (Bologna) will also appear. more
Magdalena Kožená will sing in the NOSPR concert hall in Katowice
The world-renowned mezzo-soprano and native of Brno Magdalena Kožená will perform in the NOSPR concert hall in Katowice. Katowice is, just like Brno, a UNESCO City of Music. As part of the recital, which will take place under the auspices of Brno and Katowice, Kožená will be accompanied by her husband – Sir Simon Rattle. more
A new album of AzBest is on its way. The Brno artist has released his first music video featuring the track Do lesa
Active as part of the group Recordinace, the hiphopper of Brno AzBest is working on his first album. He has accompanied his single Do lesa with a new music video. more
Brno City Theatre is getting ready for another series of its summer performances to take place at the Bishop’s Courtyard
Brno City Theatre is planning its programme for the coming summer. The Bishop’s Courtyard (Biskupský dvůr) is going to get busy with multiple theatre shows featuring Alena Antalová, Hana Holišová, Michal Isteník, Boleslav Polívka, Petr Štěpán and other artists. There will be as many as 37 performances presenting six individual theatre plays. Tickets can be booked as of today. more
The Prospects of Research into the Franciscan Culture in Bohemia: An online workshop
Subtitled History – Spirituality – Liturgy – Music and Art, this online workshop is organized by Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The deadline for applications for this one-day event is this Friday, i.e., 15 January 2021. more
A new cultural newsletter issue released by Culture Department, Brno City Municipality
Brno Cultural Newsletter presents a summary of events and changes to relate to theatres, clubs, festivals and cultural events in Brno in the upcoming period. more
The National Theatre’s opera ensemble will perform at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2021
The Janáček Opera gave a guest performance with success as part of year 45 of the prestigious international Hong Kong Arts Festival with Janáček’s Makropulos Affair earlier in 2017. This time, the Brno opera ensemble is returning to the Hong Kong festival’s stage. Due to the pandemic situation, the festival management decided that foreign ensembles would be participating online – through recordings and live streams. more
Brno City Theatre: The results of the “Wings” poll will be formally announced online this year
Throughout the theatre season, those favouring Brno City Theatre can vote for their best actress, actor, director, designer and composer, as well as their best creative work or individual staging performance. Voting is possible via poll tickets published in the Dokořán theatre magazine or on the theatre’s site. The results will be announced online this year. more
Czech Ensemble Baroque invites you to watch their live streaming on Sunday
Dubbed “Vienna’s Bach”, Johann Josef Fux is known as one of the top world's Baroque composers. On Sunday, Czech Ensemble Baroque will perform the composer’s Missa pro defunctis (Kaiserrequiem K 51-53). The concert from the Brothers of Mercy Convent will be streamed online. 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
