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In the new single Magnum, the big band B-Side Band tackles the hectic pace of everyday life. The clip also features actors Michal Isteník and Jakub Uličník alongside the musicians. The as yet untitled album will be released in autumn this year. The band will start touring in early 2024. more
Incursus barbarorum – composer Jan Novák in exile
The Institute of Musicology at the Faculty of Music is preparing an exhibition entitled Incursus barbarorum, dedicated to the composer Jan Novák and his work in exile. The opening of the exhibition will be introduced by Martin Flašar. more
In mid-February, the Post-Hudba duo released their third long-playing album, My všichni tady a teď (We All Here and Now), on which Dominik Zezula and producer Tomáš Havlen focus on the reality of the lives of today’s thirty-somethings. This can also be heard in the song 90’s kids, for which the band in cooperation with the director Štěpán Svoboda created a new video and invites you to the album launch in Brno’s Kabinet Múz. more
Janáček Opera invites you to a preview of Falstaff
The production team and soloists will present a new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, directed by Ondřej Havelka, at the Janáček Opera NdB at the beginning of April. The preview can also be watched online. more
The Dance Career Foundation is organizing a seminar on second careers for dancers in the Czech Republic. more
The Dialogues Minifestival will close with a concert of Schnittke & Rachmaninoff with Milan Paľa
The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra has prepared this week's concerts under the title Schnittke & Rachmaninoff. The programme includes two works: Alfred Schnittke's Violin Concerto No. 4 and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 in A minor. It concludes the Dialogues Minifestival, which the Orchestra prepared for the home audience after its return from the American tour. Friday's concert will be broadcast live on Czech Radio Vltava. more
The musical “Matilda” is based on the book by the English novelist Roald Dahl, published in 1988. The Brno premiere of the musical will be translated and directed by Petr Gazdík. Matilda has three alternate performers in the title role – Anna Bergerová, Maria Juráčková, and Karolina Kabele. Other roles will be played by Jiří Mach, Milan Němec, Kristýna Daňhelová, Dagmar Křížová, Alena Antalová, Johana Gazdíková, and others. The conductors of the production are Dan Kalousek and Ema Mikešková. Choreography was created by Carli Rebecca Jefferson. more
Martin Glaser is Vice-President of Opera Europa
Martin Glaser, director of the National Theatre Brno, was elected vice-president of Opera Europa on 13 January 2023, an association that provides services to professional opera companies and opera festivals across Europe and now has 226 members in 43 countries. more
Jakub Hrůša is the absolute winner of the International Classical Music Award in the Symphonic Music category
Conductor Jakub Hrůša succeeded with the recording that he made with the Bamberger Symphony last year on Deutsche Grammophon. The editors of world music magazines and representatives of international cultural institutions have judged the recording to be the best in the Symphonic Music category. 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
