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Musica Florea will perform spiritual arias of Czech classicism in Brno
The Musica Florea ensemble will open this year’s concert cycle with a programme entitled The Splendour of Virtuosity of the Spiritual Arias of Czech Classicism, which will be performed three times in February in different locations around the country. In Brno, it will be performed at the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno (Staré Brno). The soloist and guest will be the leading Czech baritone Roman Janál. The concert programme will offer sacred arias by Czech composers of the second half of the 18th century, many of which will be heard as modern premieres. more
The Brno cultural newsletter brings you an overview of events and opportunities in the coming period concerning theatres, clubs, festivals, and cultural events in Brno. more
For the fourteenth year now, the space under the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul comes alive with productions from the Brno Municipal Theatre (MdB). This year, the MdB will start its summer performances at the beginning of June and will stage a total of 29 performances of seven different titles in the Bishop’s Court. The traditional summer stage will open with the world premiere of the original production Crocodile from Svratka or Mozart in Brno by Stanislav Slovák, Jan Šotkovský, and Petr Štěpán. more
Norrköping 2023: meeting of UNESCO cities of music
The annual meeting of UNESCO Cities of Music is currently taking place in Norrköping, Sweden. The host city is the cultural capital of the Östergötland region, 130 kilometres south of Stockholm. Like Brno, Norrköping has been a UNESCO Creative Cities Network City of Music since 2017. more
Brno Contemporary Orchestra will celebrate the 150th birthday of the Besední dům
After a long time, the Brno Contemporary Orchestra returns to the Besední dům to celebrate its 150th birthday. For their 11th season, they have put together a special concert programme especially for the Besední dům. The upcoming concert, led by conductor Pavel Šnajdr, will feature three Czech and one world premiere. more
The international audiovisual project Fusion by singer and composer Zuzana Mikulcová continues. The multi-genre musical fusion with Dan Bárta, Barbara Mochová, Lara Abou Hamdan, Petr Lipa, Jakub König, and Beata Hlavenková will be complemented this year by a seventh single and video called “Blind Tomorrow”, linking the Slovak and Irish scenes with an emotive duet between Mikulcová and Irish musician Graeme Mark “Grank” Donaldson. The clip was created in the Brno club Music Lab, where Mikulcová has also performed several times. more
Brno City Theatre announces auditions for Addams Family musical
The Brno City Theatre (MdB) is holding an audition to complete the ensemble (offer of engagement) and to perform the main roles and company of the musical The Addams Family. more
The British group The Subways are back on club stages. As part of their European tour for their latest album “Uncertain Joys”, the band will also visit the Brno club Fléda. more
Singer Bára Basiková celebrated her 60th anniversary a few days ago. The director and choreographer Martin Dvořák from the ProART group is preparing a multi-genre stage adaptation of her 1980s novel called Conversations with Escape. more
Dialogues mini-festival starts tomorrow
Dialogues (Dialogy) is a mini-festival of the Brno Philharmonic; it will take place at the Besední dům and the Janáček Theatre. Tomorrow, Yumi Hwang-Williams will present William Bolcom’s Violin Concerto in D major under the baton of Dennis Russell Davies, and a concert entitled From America to the Czech Republic will take place on Thursday and Friday. Next week, Milan Paľa will appear as soloist in Alfred Schnittke’s Fourth Violin Concerto. 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
