This year, the 17th annual festival brings five concerts and two cinema concerts showings in the large Šilberk Castle courtyard. Orff's cantata Carmina Burana, Antonín Dvořák's Te Deum and Händel's Messiah will be played. The event will feature performances by Dagmar Pecková, Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers, Dan Bárta, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Choir.
The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra organises five music festivals which are spread out throughout the year. This year, the summer season once again brings the Špilberk Castle open air festival. The festival will kick off with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Choir under the baton of Leoš Svárovský. Soprano Marie Fajtová, tenor Jaroslav Březina and baritone Peter Mazalán will perform. They will be followed by a concert of the Czech Ensemble Baroque, orchestra & choir with Lenka Cafourková Ďuricová, Lucie Rozsnyó and Lukáš Hacek. The festival will also feature Dagmar Pecková with a selection of opera arias. This year’s classical concerts include a performance by Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers, a showing of the famous Three Tenors concert recording: Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras. In addition, the jazz project of Dan Bárta & the Robert Balzar Trio with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Ondrej Olos will also be performing. The Špilberk International Music Festival will take place from 16-27 August 2016 in the large Špilberk Castle courtyard.
The Director of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra Marie Kučerová said about the festival: "In August, an iconic place in Brno, the large Špilberk Castle courtyard, will become the summer concert hall of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra for the seventeenth time. This year's programme delivers a light summer music menu with refined courses: The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the famous Carmina Burana under the baton of Leoš Svárovský, accompany Dagmar Pecková under the leadership of Stanislav Vavřínek and present the premiere of a new symphony project of Dan Bárta. The Czech Ensemble Baroque led by Roman Válek will perform the complete authentic Händel's Messiah and Ondřej Havelka's Melody Makers will play equally authentic hits of the pre-war Czechoslovakia. This year, we can enjoy a recording of the original concert of the famous Three Tenors from 1990 and the equally historic last recording of a concert of Bob Marley from 1980 on the big screen."
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