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The latest PRSO concert at the Municipal House will take place under the baton of conductor, composer and arranger Jan Kučera. The programme will include not only o...

Czech Radio – Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra announces an AUDITION for the post of first clarinettist/deputy leader of group to enter employment from 1.1.2015.

In existence since 2005, the Music Forum Hradec Králové festival has managed to earn a place of honour on the Czech music scene, while it its international reputati...

The above title accompanied an article by the editor-in-chief of the website Opera Plus, Vít Dvořák, reviewing the first concert of a new Prague Radio Symphony Orch...

He is currently preparing for the role of Amadeus in Peter Shaffer’s play of the same name at the Divadlo na Vinohradech theatre. It premieres on 7 November. Fortun...

Vladimir Sverdlov-Ashkenazy comes from a family with a long tradition of extraordinary artists. His grandfather, the composer and pianist David Ashkenazy, encourage...

A gripping and tumultuous performance of Janáček's most secular piece of sacred music, says Norman Lebrecht, who enjoys this faithful performance from Prague.

With the wind at its heels, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra is setting forth on its 88th season. And its musicians will be aiming to convince the public of the ...

One of the best-known legends in music history is linked to Mozart’s Requiem. The famous piece can be heard together with Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem Death and...

As you are aware from the website of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the ensemble’s soloist, 23-year-old violinist Jan Mráček, reached the final at the eighth ...

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 ...

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...

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