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Musical Mamma Mia! will be staged at the Brno City Theatre
The musical Mamma Mia!, which has achieved great success on world stages including Broadway, is heading to Brno. MdB will introduce it under the direction of Petr Gazdík. Donna will be performed by Alena Antalová, Markéta Sedláčková or Ivana Vaňková. Furthermore, Dagmar Křížová, Barbora Remišová or Petra Šimberová. Men's roles will be represented by Martin Havelka, Igor Ondříček or Viktor Skála and many others. more
The season of broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera begins. Featuring Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato and Yusif Ayvazov
Tomorrow, another season of broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera begins at the Scala University Cinema. The Metropolitan Opera in New York is launching a programme of live broadcasting into cinemas for the 2019/20 season. Ten productions are directed to Czech cinemas, five of which are new. Opera productions such as Tosca, Turandot or Madama Butterfly will be available for viewing. New pieces include Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin and Akhnaten by Philip Glass. The broadcast season will begin with Puccini's Turandot featuring soprano Christine Goerke and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Met. more
Latest: Czech Ensemble Baroque will present the mystical cantata Musikalische Exequien today
The mystical cantata Musikalische Exequien by Heinrich Schütz, the greatest composer of the era before Bach, will be performed by the Czech Ensemble Baroque. This work will be confronted with another two-chorus motet at the concert, but this time written by an almost unknown author, Johannes Schimrack (or Ján Šimrák in Slovak). The concert will take place in the Church of St. Michael. more
Violinist and singer Jitka Šuranská passed away
Yesterday, 28 October 2019, musician Jitka Šuranská died aged 41 years. more
The Young Brno Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its 25th anniversary
The Symphony Orchestra of the Primary Art School of the City of Brno was founded in 1994 on the initiative of headmasters of primary art schools in Brno. Since 2003, the band has been called Young Brno Symphony Orchestra. This year the orchestra celebrates 25 years of its existence with a concert in the Hall of the Convent of Merciful Brothers. more
Divergent Connections Orchestra presents: 101 beers – 101 paintings and 30 freedom rums?
Divergent Connections Orchestra is preparing a concert performance on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia. Events with the subtitle 101 Beers – 101 Paintings & 30 Freedom Rums? will take place in the House of the Lords of Lipá. Both songs will be presented only once. more
Tonight, Scala University Cinema hosts a documentary river-movie premiere that captures the story of the group Dunaj. The screenplay and direction of the documentary was undertaken by David Butula. The film was screened at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, and now it is about to be featured in a cinema for the first time. more
Jazz & World Music will be opened by Dan Tepfer with a disklavier
The opening of the seventh season of the Jazz & World Music cycle, which consists of six evenings this year, is approaching. It will introduce musicians from Europe and overseas. At the beginning of the subscription series, Dan Tepfer will perform his Natural Machines programme and will play on a Yamaha disklavier. Other concerts will feature Efe Turumtay & Nikola Zarić, Lucienne Renaudin Vary & Robert Balzar Trio and Airelle Besson & Lionel Suarez. more
Latest: The VOX IMAGINIS concert cycle begins today
Today, on Saturday 2 November 2019, the opening concert of the 6th VOX IMAGINIS concert cycle will take place. All concerts of this series are prepared in cooperation with the Moravian Gallery in Brno. They promise themed evenings that combine chamber music, literary texts and fine art. Today's concert will take place at the Governor's Palace, bearing the subtitle "Musical Friendship". People will hear String Quartet in D minor by Antonín Dvořák and the Clarinet Quintet in B minor by Johannes Brahms, performed by Graffe Quartet and Canadian clarinettist James Campbell. Texts and letters of Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák will be recited by actor Saša Rašilov. more
The JazzFestBrno International Festival introduced the first names of performers for its upcoming 19th season. The festival will begin on 15 March 2020 with a concert by Joshua Redman Quartet. Also featured will be twenty-time Grammy winner Pat Metheny, singer Lizz Wright with a philharmonic, and bass player Avishai Cohen. After many years, and for the first time in Brno, he will perform in a trio with which he recorded his groundbreaking album Gently Disturbed in 2008. Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell and Chris Potter will also appear at the festival. more
On Saturday, 24 August, the Korean radio orchestra KBS Symphony Orchestra with its musical director - Finnish conductor and violinist Pietari Inkinen - came to Brno's Špilberk Festival with an exclusively romantic repertoire. The invitation was also accepted by South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim, a graduate of the prestigious Julliard School. more
For a quarter of a century now, the Brno Philharmonic has been organising the Špilberk Festival at the end of August in the courtyard of the castle of the same name. Four open-air musical evenings offer the audience a selection of concerts featuring classical, film and computer music, as well as often jazz and other genres. This makes it a diverse mix of performers and repertoires with an often pleasant, summery, laid-back ambience. This year's big and rapdily sold-out attraction was the Wednesday evening of 21 August, full of melodies from the James Bond films, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, headed by world-renowned conductor, composer and arranger Steven Mercurio. During the concert, the audience also got to enjoy singers Sara Milfajtová, Vendula Příhodová and David Kraus. more
As part of its European tour, the Taiwanese Taipei Philharmonic Chamber Choir (TPCC), under the direction of artistic director and choirmaster Dr. YuChung Johnny Ku, took the city up on its invitation and visited Brno. The concert was held on Monday, 13th August in the hall of the newly renovated Passage Hotel. more
The final concert of this year's season of the Brno Philharmonic was devoted to works by Antonín Dvořák and Jean Sibelius at the Janáček Theatre. On Thursday, 20 June, Danish conductor Michael Schønwandt, who had not appeared before a Brno audience since January last year, took the lead of the Philharmonic. In the first half of the programme, the orchestra was accompanied by violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky. more
In the spirit of the idea that Brno and folklore belong together, the Folklore Ensemble Happening of the Year took place on Thursday 6 June. The event was organised by the Brno UNESCO City of Music Office in cooperation with the Brno Dances and Sings association. The event thus became part of a long-term project that set out to map the amateur music scene in Brno, and not only folk music. Last year Brno City of Music reached out to choirs in a similar way, and in the future will host garage bands and more. This just goes to prove the diversity of Brno's music scene, not only as regards professional ensembles, but also enthusiastic amateurs for whom music is an inseparable part of their lives. more
