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The ProART Festival is entering its 15th year. This year for the first time this multi-genre festival is taking place in four towns and cities. In addition to Brno, Valtice and Liberec this year it will also expand to include Plzeň. A total of 34 instructors will lead workshops in contemporary dance, theatre, singing, music, literature and photography. Among them will be Lenka Dusilová, Zdeněk Bína, Eva Vrbková, Radka Fišarová, Zdeněk Král, and Ida Kelarová as well as authors like Josef Formánek, Michal Viewegh, Jiří Hájíček, Alena Mornštajnová and Tereza Boučková. more
Vaňkovka Fest 2018 Starts Tomorrow
During the months of June and July the multi-genre festival Vaňkovka Fest offers musical and theatre performances, yoga exercises and talks on travel. Among those appearing will be Monkey Business, Tata Bojs, Visací zámek, Mydy Rabycad, Mucha and many more. more
Boskovice Resounds to the Mandolin Festival
This international festival is entering its second year. Along with Martin Krajíček and his trio there will be appearances from the Mandolin Orchestra, Vítek Hanulík and Karel Začal, Tři grácie, Megafon and Michal Müller as well as Jiří Plocek and Jitka Šuranská. The festival will include workshops for the participants. more
Kamenka open 2018: Vilém Spilka Quartet, Candish, Cirkus Legrando and others
The last but one weekend in June will once more belong to the festival in Brno’s Kamenná kolonie. Over the three days on the festival meadow the Vilém Spilka Quartet, Swing Pigs, Candish, Miserable Ones and Cirkus Legrando will be appearing. more
F SCÉNA: Display of Folk Ensembles
The 21st year of summer folk concerts opens with a gala evening of dance and music in the courtyard of Špilberk Castle. Among those appearing will be the Poddukelský Artistic Folk Ensemble – PUĽS, the Military Folk Ensemble ONDRÁŠ and the Song and Dance Ensemble Dolina. more
Amadeus MozArt: A work by three choreographers on one stage
Amadeus MozArt is a ballet production by three contemporary choreographers, inspired by the works and personality of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This project was created from the choreography and direction of Carolina Isach, Uladzimir Ivanou and Dan Datcu. The premiere will take place in the Reduta Theatre, which has a close connection with the figure of the composer. more
Brno City Theatre is casting main, supporting and children’s roles in new musical Big which is currently in preparation. The premiere is to take place in October 2018. more
The Ibérica Festival Gets Brno Dancing and Gives it Fragrance
In late June and July the 15th edition of the Ibérica festival of Ibero-American culture will bring to Brno the atmosphere of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin and South America to Brno. The festival programme will offer a fiesta with music, dancing and traditional dishes at the Old Town Hall, workshops and a film festival. This year's Ibérica will open with a concert by the guitar duo Cortés & Gallardo. José María Gallardo represents the world of the classical guitar and Miguel Angel Cortés comes from the environment of the Los Cortés flamenco dynasty. The biggest stars of the festival will appear in the gala concert in Špilberk Castle Courtyard, which will present the flamenco flautist Sergio de Lope with his group and the flamenco dancer Gema Moneo. The evening will conclude with the guitarist Paco León. more
Conclusion of the Opera Season in Brno: Premiere of Così fan tutte
A production of the opera Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been created by the National Theatre Brno under the direction of Anna Petrželková. Jana Šrejma Kačírková alternating with Pavla Vykopalová, Jana Hrochová alternating with Václava Krejčí, Roman Hoza alternating with Igor Loškár, the guest Polish tenor Karol Kozlowský and many other will be appearing in Petrželková’s opera debut. The musical production was by Jakub Klecker. more
Once again May Day is being celebrated in Kamenná kolonie. In the premises of the Duck Bar and its wider surroundings there will be a market with food and handmade items. In the afternoon there will be performances from the VoHus free musical association and the TyJáTrio 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
