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In mid-May, a festival will take place on the outskirts of Brno, attracting music, theatre, slam poetry, and books. It aims to celebrate female authorship across musical genres and artistic types. more
Easter with NdB Junior Ballet 2
On Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the Reduta Theatre will host a programme by the Brno National Theatre (NdB 2) Junior Ballet called Adam and Eve / REM / Pampúšik. more
VUS Ondráš is looking for a clarinet player
The Ondráš Military Art Ensemble (VUS Ondráš) is filling a position in the professional part of the ensemble. The ensemble is looking for a clarinet player. The selection process is announced for the beginning of May 2023. more
Ensemble Opera Diversa will premiere Dandelion with Milan Paľa
The Ensemble Opera Diversa is preparing another concert for solo violin. The soloist of the evening will be Slovak violin virtuoso Milan Paľa, who will perform the premiere of Dandelion by Canadian-American composer Linda Catlin Smith. more
One of the icons of punk Public Image Ltd will perform this autumn in the Brno club Fléda. The British band will present their new album End of World. It comes out after almost a decade and will honour the memory of the late John Lydon’s wife. 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
The Husovický dvorek festival enters its 22nd year this year. The family programme will start on Sunday with the DNO theatre with the performance The Cunning Little Vixen and an exhibition of Vendula Chalánková. The festival will close with a concert by Martin Kyšperský. more
Marko Ivanović and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra received the Angel Award
On Saturday 15 April, the Czech Academy of Music announced the winners of the 2022 Anděl Awards. The awards are given in a total of fourteen categories, two of which belong to classical music and jazz. The winner in the classical category was conductor Marko Ivanović, who works at the Janáček Opera in Brno, together with the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. more
Audition for dancers for the opera production “The Jacobin”
The National Theatre in Brno (NdB) is looking for dancers for a new opera production of Dvořák’s “Jakobín”. The production will be created under the direction of Martin Glaser, with a premiere on 8 October 2023. more
Dance and Music Evenings with Ondráš will visit Špilberk again
For the fourth time, the Ondráš Military Art Ensemble will present the Evenings with Ondráš benefit series. During two evenings in June, this artistic ensemble will play and dance the best of its repertoire in the open air in the courtyard of Brno’s Špilberk Castle. Together with them this year, the Pilsen folk ensemble Mladina will perform. 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
