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International Guitar Festival and Courses Brno: Carmen Cortéz, Gerardo Nuñez and others
International Guitar Festival and Courses Brno enters its 33rd year. Featuring the best guitarists from Europe, Japan and South America. The festival will open with a night of flamenco from Andalusia with dancer Carmen Cortéz and guitarists Gerardo Nuñez and José León, accompanied by singer Antonio Carbonell. more
The management of the Brno Philharmonic announces selection procedure to fill the vacant post of Head of the Concert Activities Department, Orchestra Manager for Abroad. The closing date for applications is 18 June 2024 (inclusive). more
Alisa Weilerstein and David Mareček - their joint concert is broadcast today on Czech Television
At 9:55 this evening, a recording of the joint concert by American cellist Alisa Weilerstein accompanied by David Mareček on the piano will be available on Czech Television's iVysílání. Their recital was recorded in 2021 and took place in the empty Rudolfinum, as the concert was cancelled for the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be a performance of Leoš Janáček's Fairy Tale for Cello and Piano, as well as works by Claude Debussy, Antonín Dvořák and César Franck. more
The end of the season at the Janáček Opera will see the première of Here I Am, Orlando
The opera season will culminate at the Janáček Theatre with the world première of Here I Am, Orlando based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. For this adaptation, the artistic director of the Janáček Opera and director Jiří Heřman reached out to the prominent Slovak composer Ľubica Čekovská. The future chief conductor of the Janáček Opera of the National Theatre Brno (NdB), Robert Kružík, will take on the musical direction, while the choral part will be staged by Martin Buchta. more
Just in: The city has signed a contract with the contractors of its new hall. Construction work can begin
Today, to the strains of the first movement of Janáček's Confidential Letters, the contract with the contractor of the Janáček Cultural Centre was officially signed at the New Town Hall. more
NdB is looking for dancers for the upcoming opera Manon Lescaut
The Janáček Opera ensemble of the National Theatre Brno (NdB) is announcing an audition for dance roles in the upcoming opera Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini, directed by Štěpán Pácl. The production is to be choreographed by Andrea Miltnerová and the première is announced for 7 February 2025 at the Janáček Theatre. more
The 20th annual festival will, as always, take place in Brno. Spectators will be treated to a spectacular clown show in the "sea" on Moravské náměstí to open the festival, and a subsequent weekend programme in Björnson's Orchard. The programme includes performances, art forms, new circus, puppets and classic drama and concerts. more
The Brno Culture Newsletter presents an overview of what is happening in the city’s theatres, clubs, summer festivals and other cultural events in Brno. more
The Brno Culture Newsletter presents an overview of what is happening in the city’s theatres, clubs, summer festivals and other cultural events in Brno. more
Twenty Years of the Brno Municipal Theatre’s Music Theatre
To mark this important anniversary, the Brno Municipal Theatre will be presenting a selection of music that has appeared in the Music Theatre's repertoire over the past twenty years. Several times in September, a gala concert will be held to celebrate Twenty Years of the Music Theatre. 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
