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The Dvořák Prague Festival is preparing the world premiere of a concert staging of Antonín Dvořák’s first opera Alfred on September 17. The almost forgotten piece i...

Between September 20 and 27, the Romanian capital will host the RadiRo International Radio Orchestras Festival, following on from the first edition in 2012 when the...

During a recent recital at the Prague Spring IMF, the bass-baritone Adam Plachetka confessed his admiration for the operatic legacy of Bedřich Smetana. “I think he ...

Journalist Helena Havlíková reviewed the events of the final weekend of the 56th Smetana’s Litomyšl festival for the information portal Opera Plus. She had the foll...

The magazine Harmonie has published a review by journalist Petr Veber reflecting on the 26th edition of the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Ther...

For several years now big opera stars have appeared at the opening of the Český Krumlov International Music Festival and this year the audience can look forward to ...

You have most probably already registered that alongside the traditional concerts at the Rudolfinum we are also preparing a new season-ticket holders’ series at the...

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra regularly travels to Litomyšl at the end of the season to entertain audiences at the town’s unique open-air festival, which is h...

From October the PRSO will return once again to the stage of the Dvořák Hall. In a traditional series, it will perform with principal conductor Ondrej Lenárd and hi...

…the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (SOČR) with conductor Tomáš Brauner is playing a concert in Poděbrady on 17 May. The programme of the festive concert, which w...

On Thursday, 15 May, the SOČR will be performing at this year’s Prague Spring International Music Festival in the Smetana Hall of the Municipal House. Under the bat...

Czech Radio – Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra announces an AUDITION for the post offirst French horn player with responsibility for third horn / deputy leader of ho...

Czech Radio – Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra announces an AUDITION for the post oftrumpet section player with employment to commence on 1. 9. 2014.

(A shorter version of this text was published in the Radioraport section in the Týdeník Rozhlas weekly dated 24.3.2014)

At the Rudolfinum on March 8 a concert will take place within the Nine Gates international festival of Czech-German-Jewish culture commemorating the tragic events a...

(Text published under the rubric Radioraport in the weekly magazine Týdeníku Rozhlas dated 3. 2. 2014)

The website Opera Plus has been a guarantee of high-quality coverage of the arts for almost five years now. The person behind it is Vít Dvořák, a graduate of produc...

2014 is the Year of Czech Music and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) is set to become involved actively just a few days after the New Year’s celebrations.

We spoke during Advent, which is meant to be a period of recollection and quiet contemplation. Going by the artist’s programme, which in December includes a big con...

I have no alternative but to conduct today’s interview from a somewhat personal perspective. We come from the same region and were born within 14 months of each oth...