The Welsh National Opera is on a UK tour with its new production of Janáček's opera conducted by their Czech music director, Tomáš Hanus. The enigmatic diva Emilia Marty looks younger than her years. The secret of her youth, a magical elixir of life taken centuries ago. For over 300 years she has lived many... Read more »
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2 events,Indoor & outdoor exhibition, Czech Centre & Czech Embassy, London Using imaginary city models with staged micro stories, leading Czech artists David Böhm & Jiří Franta draw on current social and political issues to explore the city not only as a place of neighbourhood and coexistence but also as a crowded and fragmented world, in... Read more » |
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A panel discussion co-organised by the British Czech and Slovak Association and UCL SSEES Centre for the Study of Central Europe. On Friday 13 and Saturday 14 January 2023 voters go to the polls to elect the Czech Republic’s second directly elected president. Key contenders include the billionaire populist Andrej Babiš, retired general Petr Pavel... Read more » |
1 event,Leoš Janáček’s opera of loneliness, love, and the price of passion, in a dramatic concert performance from Sir Simon Rattle and a hand-picked cast sung in Czech. Káťa is young, sensitive and desperate for love. But trapped in a remote country village with a bored husband and his snobbish family, she has no way out,... Read more » |
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This Czech ensemble, almost from its inception, began to win prizes internationally. These include the ISA Festival and the International Johannes Brahms Competition, both in Austria, plus the Parkhouse Award in London. It was also selected for the 2021 Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. Matouš Pěruška violin Kristina Vocetková cello Jan Vojtek piano For tickets see link... Read more » |
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The Czech group returns with one of the most popular classics written for its medium. Composed in 1891, Dvořák’s ‘Dumky’ Trio is named after the originally poetic ballad form that alternates cheerful with sad elements. Heard in the composer’s own arrangement, Liszt’s Carnival in Pest (1847) makes use of folk material from various countries – not just... Read more » |
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To mark the publication by Karolinum Press of the first English translation by Mark Corner of Jan Procházka’s masterpiece, David Vaughan and Peter Hames discuss both, the book and the film at 6.30pm, followed by a screening of the 1970 classic at 7pm. The Ear – Ucho in Czech – is one of the greatest of all Czech... Read more » |
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The programme performed by this Czech quartet opens with the attractive final quartet by the prolific Bohuslav Martinů, written in New York in 1947, followed by the fourth of Bartók’s six masterpieces for the medium (1928); next they are joined by a leading pianist for one of the most immediate and melodious works in the... Read more » |
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