25 June 2022, 10pm, Labour Square, Zlín Zlín žije. Multi-genre festival celebrating 700 years since the first written mention of the town Tomáš Ille: The History of Great Zlín in Sounds and Words (world premiere) Marta Bačíková, Rostislav Marek – recitation, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Leoš Svárovský
24 June 2022, 8pm, Castle Riding Hall, Litomyšl Smetana’s Litomyšl: Jazz Ride in the Riding Hall Emil Viklický: Reflections on Freedom. A jazz melodrama with a libretto based on texts and ideas of Václav Havel (such as The Power of the Powerless, Audience, On Freedom) and excerpts from a book by American historian Timothy Snyder On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons … Read more
5 May 2022, 7:30pm, Atrium Žižkov, Prague “Czech Concert Melodrama – Tradition and Present”. Concert of finalists of the Zdeněk Fibich International Competition in Melodrama Composition 2021 Jan Vičar / Jan Vičar: Truth and Lie (Performer’s award) Kateřina Trojanová / Karel Toman: Months (3. Prize) Ondřej Jírový / Tim Burton, translated by Richard Podaný, edited by … Read more
2 December 2020, 7:30pm, online stream from Town Hall of Slezská Ostrava, Ostrava https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxOW27kpjtnv8cvo-cvcfuQ?view_as=subscribe Musical Present “An Evening of Ostrava Composers” Markéta Kapustová: Fantasy for Flute No. 2 and No. 3 (world premiere) Tatiana Korimová – flute Irena Szurmanová: Dance intermezzi (world premiere) K a K duo (Zbigniew Kaleta – clarinet, Marcela Kysová – accordion) … Read more
Three concerts of Czech 20th and 21st century music took place during the second and third week of the Days of Contemporary Music festival. All of them were held in the halls of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The festival has since long been focusing on premiering new pieces and the concert on … Read more
For the first time in its history, Teatro Real in Madrid staged a new production of Viktor Ullmann’s Emperor of Atlantis (1943). Dramaturgically the premiere was a part of the theatre’s special programme series of works composed mostly by Jewish authors in the 1930s and 1940s. Apart from the main attraction, Arnold Schönberg’s Moses and Aaron, the series also included … Read more
