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Nordic Programme of the Brno Philharmonic presents Abrahamsen's Let Me Tell You
Norwegian, Danish, and Finnish composer. Add to this the literary subject matter of Denmark's Henrik Ibsen and Shakespeare's Hamlet set in Denmark. All under the baton of a Danish conductor. The programme, entitled “Ancient Nordic Tales”, will be performed by the Brno Philharmonic next Thursday and Friday at the Janáček Theatre. It will feature Hans Abrahamsen's Let me tell you, which is one of the most important musical works of the last decade and has been performed on prestigious stages around the world. more
Fedora returns to the Metropolitan Opera. The live broadcast will take place at the Scala Cinema
Fedora will return to the Metropolitan Opera after 25 years with soprano Sonja Joncheva in the title role. The audience can watch the live broadcast at the Scala University Cinema. more
BNT soloist Marie Steiner would have celebrated her 100th birthday today
Marie Steinerová, a soloist of the Brno National Theatre and a key performer of the title roles in Leoš Janáček’s operas, would have turned 100 years old today, 10 January 2023. The Brno National Theatre will dedicate a performance of Puccini’s Tosca to the singer on 10 February 2023 at the Janáček Theatre. A portrait of the artist will also be on display in the first order foyer of the Janáček Theatre from today. more
Matěj Metoděj Štrunc will christen the new album Lidověk
Matěj Metoděj Štrunc will christen his first solo album Lidověk in Kabinet Múz. The guest of the evening will be Czech-Polish singer-songwriter Beata Bocek. more
The band Poletíme? returns to the Brno club Fléda on the occasion of recording a new album. The album BEST OF DO GRAMOFONU (Best of, for the turntable) will map the greatest hits in the fifteen years of the band’s existence. Fans will get a unique chance to be part of the live recording in two concert days. more
The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra kicked off its musical season in Salzburg yesterday. The orchestra will play twice more on this prestigious stage
The Brno Philharmonic has been on an extraordinary guest tour since yesterday. For three consecutive nights it will appear on one of Europe’s most prestigious stages, playing in Salzburg, at the Great Festival House. more
The ReConnect conference for music managers, booking agents, representatives of the club scene, and other music professionals, organized by the Music Managers Forum Czech Republic association and the SoundCzech pro-export office, starts tomorrow in Brno. more
Wanted: a theater lecturer for the National Theater Ensembles Brno
The management of the National Theater Brno is creating the new position of theater lecturer/lecturer. Applications for the selection procedure must be sent by the end of the month. more
Over two nights, more than sixty concerts by artists from dozens of countries will take place in thirteen clubs in Brno. Clubs such as Alterna, ArtBar Druhý Pád, Fléda, Kabinet múz, Kafara, Metro Music Bar, Music Lab, Ponava, Rusty Nail, Sibiř, Sono Music Club, Stará Pekárna, and Vegalité, united in BACH – Brno Association of Club Music, have joined the first edition of the Batch club night. more
The Brno National Theater will premiere a triptych today of one-act ballets called Bolero
Today’s premiere of Bolero is the work of three creators – Dan Datca, Mario Radačovský, and Johan Inger. The three different movement manuscripts deal with human relationships, fundamental questions of human existence, and questions about one’s own identity. With this title, the Brno National Theater Ballet continues to present contemporary ballet repertoire and original works, now in the form of one-act ballets, unlike last season. 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
