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The theatrical costumes of Smetana's operas: Renewed beauty

The exhibition will give you a glimpse into the magical world of opera costumes and the secrets of restoration work.

1. 3. 2024 from 10.0h – 28. 2. 2025 do 17.0h | Bedřich Smetana Museum

PETROF 160 – Piano as a Technical Masterpiece

The exhibition was created on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the founding of the company, which is one of the leading European manufacturers of acoustic pianos and grand pianos.

10. 4. 2024 from 09.0h – 31. 1. 2025 do 18.0h | National Technical Museum

Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka

A gem of Czech opera, a fairy tale/myth about the innermost desires, passions and insurmountable barriers between humans and natural elements, Rusalka is part of the global cultural heritage.

9. 5. 2024 from 19.0h | The National Theatre

Concert Art 2.4 - Remebering Vítězslava Kaprálová

𝗞𝗮𝗽𝗿𝗮́𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮́ 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘁 together with 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀̌𝗼𝘃𝗮́ pay tribute to Vítězslava Kapralová

9. 5. 2024 from 19.30h | Werichova vila

Let Us Dance - final round

Amateur dancers competition final round - Let Us Dance

11. 5. 2024 from 00.0h | Archa Theatre

Opera is Fun! Bedřich Smetana

A cycle of entertainment and educational programmes for children and parents.

11. 5. 2024 from 11.0h | The Estates Theatre

Outdoor Game

An outdoor game prepared by the students is used to gain a deeper understanding of music history. Their aim is to prepare the young generation's view of the personalities of the year of Czech music and their life stories connected

12. 5. 2024 from 14.0h | The Grammar School Štěpánská

Her Country

Horn Fest Prague is a unique festival whose program is united by one instrument, namely the French horn. It was founded in 2020 on the initiative of the globally recognized Czech horn player and conductor Radek Baborák.

12. 5. 2024 from 16.0h | Pisecka gate

With Respect to Smetana

The Kateřinky area is the historical place where Bedřich Smetana left this world two hundred years ago.

12. 5. 2024 from 16.0h | Church of Saint Catherine

Berliner Philharmoniker on Kampa

Live broadcast of the opening of the Prague Spring Festival in Kampa, open to all. Smetana's My Fatherland performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under its chief conductor Kirill Petrenko.

12. 5. 2024 from 16.0h | Kampa Island

Prague Spring — Opening Concert I.

What better way to celebrate the Year of Czech Music and the bicentenary of Bedřich Smetana's birth than with a performance of My Country by the Berlin Philharmonic under its chief conductor Kirill Petrenko.

12. 5. 2024 from 20.0h | Municipal House — Smetana Hall

The Bartered Bride - workshop for groups

Operní dílna na téma opery Prodaná nevěsta (Bedřich Smetana)

13. 5. 2024 from 08.30h | The National Theatre

A musical program for the presentation of books about the Moravian Church

Presentation of new books by historian Edita Štěříková - Mon 13/5/2024, 1 p.m. - Milíč Chapel in Prague

13. 5. 2024 from 13.0h | Milíč Chapel - Rektorská 715/54, Praha 10

Manuscript under scrutiny: Dvořák's ouverture In Nature's Realm, Op. 91, B168

Lecture by David Beveridge, an excellent specialist on Dvořák's music. You can view the manuscript of the prelude In nature in the original from May 2 to June 2, 2024 at the exhibition in the Dvořák Museum.

13. 5. 2024 from 17.0h | Antonín Dvořák Museum

Prague Spring — Opening Concert I.

A concert that will go down in the history of the Prague Spring: opening with Smetana's My Country performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of its chief conductor Kirill Petrenko.

13. 5. 2024 from 20.0h | Municipal House — Smetana Hall

The Bartered Bride

A theatrical version of Smetana's world-famous comic opera with all its most famous arias and in an original musical arrangement by composer Ivan Acher.

14. 5. 2024 from 19.0h | Pod Palmovkou Theatre

Prague Spring — 75 Years of the Prague Spring Competition

Celebrate 75 years of the Prague Spring Competition with its famous laureates Pavel Haas Quartet, Gábor Boldoczki, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Johannes Grosso, Anna Paulová, Jan Hudeček, Kateřina Javůrková

15. 5. 2024 from 20.0h | Rudolfinum

May concert of the guitar ensemble VŠEHOKUS or "Songs about love"

Songs and compositions known and less known. Romantic, tender, wistful, cheerful and joyful. About love for another person, spiritual love, for homeland and freedom, nature and beauty. Reservation: nemethova.marketa@gmail.com

16. 5. 2024 from 18.0h | Studio Setkávání

Song Recital Janáček - Haas - Reichl

This unique song cycle brings together important musical gems of Czech and international composers performed by outstanding opera soloists on the stage of the Estates Theatre.

18. 5. 2024 from 11.0h | The Estates Theatre

Antonín Dvořák: Armida

Antonín Dvořák’s final completed piece, the opera Armida, is inspired by Torquato Tasso’s Renaissance epic La Gerusalemme liberata.

18. 5. 2024 from 18.0h | The National Theatre

Prague Spring — Orchestra di Santa Cecilia & Hrůša

Under the direction of Jakub Hrůša, the most renowned Czech conductor of our time and the principal guest conductor of this Roman orchestra, we will witness a fusion of cultures: the Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, France and USA.

18. 5. 2024 from 20.0h | Municipal House - Smetana Hall

Prague Spring — Pianofonia I.

We all know what a piano sounds like. But what do its individual parts sound like? This will be shown in a new composition commissioned by the festival by Michal Rataj and Jan Trojan.

20. 5. 2024 from 19.0h | National Technical Museum

Prague Spring — Return of a Legend

After almost a quarter of a century, conducting legend Riccardo Chailly returns to the Prague Spring Festival to conduct Janáček's Jealousy at the head of the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra in Milan.

20. 5. 2024 from 20.0h | Municipal House — Smetana Hall

Prague Spring — Pianofonia II.

We all know what a piano sounds like. But what do its individual parts sound like? This will be shown in a new composition commissioned by the festival by Michal Rataj and Jan Trojan.

20. 5. 2024 from 21.0h | National Technical Museum

Bedřich Smetana: The Bartered Bride

For over 150 years, The Bartered Bride has occupied the top position among Czech operas. Said to be now part of the Czech DNA, its popularity eclipses that of any other feted Bedřich Smetana opera.

8. 5. 2024 from 19.0h | The National Theatre

Dvořák – Mass In D Major

Dvořák's life and his work are interwoven with the threads of the Czech landscape, love for God and man, nature and natural humility. Perhaps in every note we can find a small fragment of something very close to him.

7. 5. 2024 from 19.30h | Church of Sts Simon and Jude

Celebratory concert for Jom-ha-šoa survivals

Krása Quartet will celebrate Jom-ha-šoa ve ha gvura - The Day of šoa victims and bravery.

6. 5. 2024 from 19.0h | Maisel Synagogue

Bedřich Smetana a jeho následovníci

The evening in Studio S1 will be framed by Smetana's almost unknown Hunting Movement for horn quartet. The next programme will also bring today's almost unknown but remarkable music.

6. 5. 2024 from 19.30h | Studio 1, Czech Radio

Ivan Acher: Sternenhoch

An uplifting opera attesting to the lowest human traits.

6. 5. 2024 from 20.0h | The National Theatre

Music, word and famous Czech string quartets

Evening from a unique series of concerts combining music and spoken word. Return to mutual perception of music without formal barriers. Famous Czech string quartets: B. Smetana: "From My Life" A. Dvořák: "American Quartett"

4. 5. 2024 from 19.0h | Podpalubi

Czech Film Music

Ondřej BROUSEK | speaker PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Jan KUČERA | conductor, piano, speaker The commentary is in Czech only.

2. 5. 2024 from 19.30h | Municipal House, Smetana Hall

Antonín Dvořák: Armida

Antonín Dvořák’s final completed piece, the opera Armida, is inspired by Torquato Tasso’s Renaissance epic La Gerusalemme liberata.

1. 5. 2024 from 18.0h | The National Theatre

Graz in Prague

As part of the celebrations of the Year of Czech Music, a project of cooperation between student orchestras of two art universities - the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU) and Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG) - will take place

30. 4. 2024 from 19.30h | Bethlehem chapel

Suk–Dvořák–Martinů

The renowned conductor Petr Altrichter will present a programme of music by three generations of Czech composers with the PRSO who are interconnected by the teacher-student relationship. Josef Suk, whose brilliant Fantastic Scherz

29. 4. 2024 from 19.30h | Rudolfinum

From the Homeland

We bring you a cycle of three concerts with performances by excellent students of HAMU in various chamber ensembles. The three Sunday matinees will celebrate the Year of Czech Music with a unique dramaturgy and present the best of

28. 4. 2024 from 10.30h | Martinů Hall HAMU

The Bartered Bride

A theatrical version of Smetana's world-famous comic opera with all its most famous arias and in an original musical arrangement by composer Ivan Acher.

26. 4. 2024 from 19.0h | Pod Palmovkou Theatre

NeoKlasik Mánes

Festive concert for the jubilee anniversary of the members of the Mánes Music Group- Iša Krejčí, Pavel Bořkovec and Václav Holzknecht.The concert program will be supplemented by notes from publications about the Mánes Music Group.

25. 4. 2024 from 17.30h | Gallery of Kooperativy

NeoKlasik Mánes

Festive concert for the jubilee anniversary of the members of the Mánes Music Group- Iša Krejčí, Pavel Bořkovec and Václav Holzknecht.The concert program will be supplemented by notes from publications about the Mánes Music Group.

25. 4. 2024 from 17.30h | Gallery of Kooperativy

An American in Paris

Leonard Slatkin is a musical legend. Of all the Czech compositions, in honour of the Year of Czech Music, he chose the evocative Music for Prague 1968 by Czech-American Karel Husa, and of all the soloists in the world he chose Olg

25. 4. 2024 from 19.30h | Municipal House

Vilém Blažek - Missa solemnis

Bach-Collegium Prague will perform a unique mass composition by Vilém Blažek - Missa solemnis, op. 5. The program will be supplemented with a Great Concert Fantasy on the chorale of St. Wenceslas by Josef Klička.

24. 4. 2024 from 19.30h | Church of Christ the Savior

An American in Paris

Leonard Slatkin is a musical legend. Of all the Czech compositions, in honour of the Year of Czech Music, he chose the evocative Music for Prague 1968 by Czech-American Karel Husa, and of all the soloists in the world he chose Olg

24. 4. 2024 from 19.30h | Municipal House

Classical music with babies - oboe

The most famous compositions of Francis Poulence and Maurice Ravel. The oboist Marta Bílá and the pianist Martin Levický will play for the smallest audience and their parents.

23. 4. 2024 from 09.30h | Atrium Žižkov

Classical music with babies - oboe

The most famous compositions of Francis Poulence and Maurice Ravel. The oboist Marta Bílá and the pianist Martin Levický will play for the smallest audience and their parents.

23. 4. 2024 from 11.0h | Atrium Žižkov

Martin Hybler (1977) — Portrait

PKF - Prague Philharmonia's music talk show dedicated to contemporary Czech music and its leading personalities: the guest of this concert is Martin Hybler, a composer, pianist and arranger who is dedicated to music across genres.

23. 4. 2024 from 19.0h | Švandovo divadlo na Smíchově

Smetana. A dramatic miniseries about life in music

Meeting with the creators of the radio series "Smetana". It will be presented by actress Andrea Elsnerová, author of the radio play Pavel Molek and dramaturg Klára Novotná. A talk from the cycle Musical Evenings over the Vltava.

22. 4. 2024 from 18.0h | Bedřich Smetana Museum

Czech Chamber Music Society • Julia Fischer

Julia Fischer, a superb violinist with Slovak roots, will lead the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra in a lovely programme of Bach, Mozart, and Suk.

22. 4. 2024 from 19.30h | Rudolfinum

Famous opera choruses

A spectacular celebration of Czech music. This is a brief summary of the programme prepared by the Prague Philharmonic Choir together with its artistic partner, the PKF - Prague Philharmonia Orchestra, for the celebration of the Y

21. 4. 2024 from 20.0h | The Spanish Hall in the Prague Castle

Song Recital Dvořák - Suk - Novák

This unique song cycle brings together important musical gems of Czech and international composers performed by outstanding opera soloists on the stage of the Estates Theatre.

20. 4. 2024 from 11.0h | The Estates Theatre

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