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The ProART Festival is entering its 15th year. This year for the first time this multi-genre festival is taking place in four towns and cities. In addition to Brno, Valtice and Liberec this year it will also expand to include Plzeň. A total of 34 instructors will lead workshops in contemporary dance, theatre, singing, music, literature and photography. Among them will be Lenka Dusilová, Zdeněk Bína, Eva Vrbková, Radka Fišarová, Zdeněk Král, and Ida Kelarová as well as authors like Josef Formánek, Michal Viewegh, Jiří Hájíček, Alena Mornštajnová and Tereza Boučková. more
Vaňkovka Fest 2018 Starts Tomorrow
During the months of June and July the multi-genre festival Vaňkovka Fest offers musical and theatre performances, yoga exercises and talks on travel. Among those appearing will be Monkey Business, Tata Bojs, Visací zámek, Mydy Rabycad, Mucha and many more. more
Boskovice Resounds to the Mandolin Festival
This international festival is entering its second year. Along with Martin Krajíček and his trio there will be appearances from the Mandolin Orchestra, Vítek Hanulík and Karel Začal, Tři grácie, Megafon and Michal Müller as well as Jiří Plocek and Jitka Šuranská. The festival will include workshops for the participants. more
Kamenka open 2018: Vilém Spilka Quartet, Candish, Cirkus Legrando and others
The last but one weekend in June will once more belong to the festival in Brno’s Kamenná kolonie. Over the three days on the festival meadow the Vilém Spilka Quartet, Swing Pigs, Candish, Miserable Ones and Cirkus Legrando will be appearing. more
F SCÉNA: Display of Folk Ensembles
The 21st year of summer folk concerts opens with a gala evening of dance and music in the courtyard of Špilberk Castle. Among those appearing will be the Poddukelský Artistic Folk Ensemble – PUĽS, the Military Folk Ensemble ONDRÁŠ and the Song and Dance Ensemble Dolina. more
Amadeus MozArt: A work by three choreographers on one stage
Amadeus MozArt is a ballet production by three contemporary choreographers, inspired by the works and personality of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This project was created from the choreography and direction of Carolina Isach, Uladzimir Ivanou and Dan Datcu. The premiere will take place in the Reduta Theatre, which has a close connection with the figure of the composer. more
Brno City Theatre is casting main, supporting and children’s roles in new musical Big which is currently in preparation. The premiere is to take place in October 2018. more
The Ibérica Festival Gets Brno Dancing and Gives it Fragrance
In late June and July the 15th edition of the Ibérica festival of Ibero-American culture will bring to Brno the atmosphere of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin and South America to Brno. The festival programme will offer a fiesta with music, dancing and traditional dishes at the Old Town Hall, workshops and a film festival. This year's Ibérica will open with a concert by the guitar duo Cortés & Gallardo. José María Gallardo represents the world of the classical guitar and Miguel Angel Cortés comes from the environment of the Los Cortés flamenco dynasty. The biggest stars of the festival will appear in the gala concert in Špilberk Castle Courtyard, which will present the flamenco flautist Sergio de Lope with his group and the flamenco dancer Gema Moneo. The evening will conclude with the guitarist Paco León. more
Conclusion of the Opera Season in Brno: Premiere of Così fan tutte
A production of the opera Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been created by the National Theatre Brno under the direction of Anna Petrželková. Jana Šrejma Kačírková alternating with Pavla Vykopalová, Jana Hrochová alternating with Václava Krejčí, Roman Hoza alternating with Igor Loškár, the guest Polish tenor Karol Kozlowský and many other will be appearing in Petrželková’s opera debut. The musical production was by Jakub Klecker. more
Once again May Day is being celebrated in Kamenná kolonie. In the premises of the Duck Bar and its wider surroundings there will be a market with food and handmade items. In the afternoon there will be performances from the VoHus free musical association and the TyJáTrio theatre. 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
