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Summer Menu of the National Theatre Brno: 100th Rerun of The Bartered Bride
The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana will have its 100th rerun as part of the National Theatre Brno's Summer Menu. Jitka Zerhauová, Jana Šrejma Kačírková, Jakub Tolaš as a guest and others will be starring in this Brno production directed by Ondřej Havelka. more
The last premiere of the ballet season will be a performance entitled Radio and Juliet written by Edward Clug, a renowned European choreographer. The ballet with the subtitle "What would happen if Julie decided not to die" is accompanied by music of the UK band Radiohead. more
Metro Music Bar will open its Metro Open Air stage in the middle of August. Hence, in response to government regulations, the club concerts will be moved outdoors. The former post office building, which faces the club directly across the street, features a large inner courtyard. This particular venue is where all the concerts will be taking place for two weeks, starting from mid-August. The first two days of the new outdoor programme will be dedicated to the Brno Music Marathon festival. more
Concert as a Tribute to Health Care Professionals. Featuring Andrea Tögel Kalivodová, Virtuosi Brunenses and Kantiléna
Májový Petrov ("May Petrov") is a charity concert held in support of the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, which also wants to pay tribute to all health care professionals for their commitment during the Covid-19 pandemic. The concert was supposed to take place already in May this year, but due to lockdown security measures it will not be staged until September. Featured performers will be Andrea Tögel Kalivodová, a soloist at the Opera of the National Theatre in Prague, accompanied by the Virtuosi Brunenses musical ensemble from Brno and the Kantiléna children's choir. more
Václav Věžník Celebrates His 90th Birthday
Václav Věžník ranks among important personalities of Czech opera directing of the second half of the 20th century. During his artistic career of more than fifty years, he directed over 200 productions and almost half of them were created in Brno. Věžník acted as a director also on foreign stages. He celebrates 90 years today. more
Latest: Magdalena Kožená and Simon Rattle will Perform Together in Villa Tugendhat
Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and her husband, conductor Sir Simon Rattle, will perform together in Brno for the first time as part of the Brno Music Marathon festival. A song recital of Kožená, arranged exclusively for this evening from compositions by Czech authors, will be accompanied by Simon Rattle on piano. The concert takes place in Villa Tugendhat, but it will also be available for viewing in the courtyard of the Governor's Palace (Místodržitelský palác), in the "Scalní letňák" cinema and in other selected cinemas. more
The Brno Music Marathon Festival Is Starting on Thursday. It Will Feature over 130 Concerts and 300 Artists
For the fifth time already, the centre of Brno will be transformed into one big music stage. From Thursday to Sunday, the multi-genre Brno Music Marathon festival will take place here. The programme will surely please fans of rock, pop, groove, dance music, opera, folk, ethno, world music, classics or musicals. Brno is the only UNESCO City of Music to welcome 300 musicians in our country, among others, for example, Magdalena Kožená, Katarína Knechtová or Jan Bendig. You also should not miss Pianoštafeta, The Endless Organ and concerts in street rooms of Kateřina Šedá. more
The Brno Children's Choir is looking for fresh talent
The Brno Children's Choir is recruiting new members aged 6 to 10. more
Sting will personally visit a rerun of the musical The Last Ship in MdB
In February 2019, the Brno City Theatre staged, as the first to do so scene in the Czech Republic, the musical The Last Ship. This September, one of its reruns is to be attended by Sting, the author of the music and lyrics himself. more
Mozart's Children with the group Tata Bojs and the Brno Philharmonic to take place in September
This year's eleventh season of the Mozart's Children festival, which gives space to young talent from all over South Moravia, will take place in September. The event did not take place on the original date due to the lockdown. This extraordinary concert promises, in addition to the Brno Philharmonic, also the group Tata Bojs. 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
