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November 2024
2024-11-28Prague Philharmonic & Pavel Černoch |
Church of St. Simon and Jude
The Prague Philharmonic Choir together with the world-class tenor Pavel Černoch will present a purely Czech programme, with which they will embark a few days later on their "American" concert tour, the highlight of which will be an a capella concert at New York's Carnegie Hall. The repertoire will include works by Bohuslav Martinů, who was one of the few European composers to conquer the so-called New World, and whose works have been premiered by the most famous American orchestras under the direction of world-class conductors. By including works by Petr Eben, Bohuslav Martinů and Jan Novák, composers whose lives and works were marked by the Communist and Nazi regimes respectively, the concert also becomes part of the cultural events commemorating the November Day of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy and the Day of Studenthood.
January 2025
2025-01-23 | 2025-01-24 | 2025-01-25Andris Nelsons Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 8 & 9 |
Boston Symphony Orchestra
For all his reputation as a prickly artistic genius whose music crackles with heaven-storming power, Beethoven shared with his teacher Haydn a delightful musical wit, nowhere so clearly demonstrated as in his Eighth Symphony. The cycle concludes with his hugely ambitious and all-embracing Ninth, a revolution in and of itself; it was the first symphony to include chorus, transforming Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” into a hymn for humanity.
January 2025
2025-01-29 | 2025-01-30 | 2025-01-31Czech Philharmonic • Simon Rattle |
The Czech Philharmonic
Even world-famous conductors have dreams. Sir Simon Rattle for example has dreamt of conducting the Czech Philharmonic in Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass since it first bewitched him as a young man when he heard the Orchestra’s Supraphon recording with Karel Ančerl. This sacred work will be preceded by the second set of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances. These, together with the first set, will be recorded for future release on PENTATONE.
March 2025
2025-03-17 | 2024-10-21 | 2025-03-24 | 2025-03-27 | 2025-03-30Katya Kabanova | Boris Grigorjevič
Bavarian State Opera
May 2025
2025-05-25 | 2025-05-29Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | Sergey
Oper Leipzig
A masterpiece of the 20th century, a real "thriller"
"In the forest, in the deep forest, there is a lake, round and deep. The water of the lake is completely black. Black like my conscience. And when the wind whistles in the forest, the lake makes waves, great waves of fear."
Katerina Ismaliova, Acte IV
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Gran Teatre den Liceu, Barcelona - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
A masterpiece of the 20th century, a real "thriller" "In the forest, in the deep forest, there is a lake, round and deep. The water of the lake is completely black. Black like my conscience. And when the wind whistles in the forest, the lake makes waves, great waves of fear." Katerina Ismaliova, Acte IV
Wiener Staatsopera - Rusalka
Civilization and nature, fears and longings, power relations and gender definitions collide in a psychologically exaggerated way.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
A woman becomes a murderess, but still the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich has sympathy for her.