Press releases

14/9/2023

The National Theatre Opera to present an exclusive song recital cycle

National Theatre Opera soloists will perform within a unique series of eight song matinées at the Estates Theatre. The special atmosphere will be enhanced by the audience being seated on the stage.

14/9/2023

Come taste L’elisir d’amore at the State Opera – from 22 September

Opera

The opera buffa about the fragility of love and self-confidence has amused audiences world-wide for almost two centuries. Created by the award-winning stage director Julia Burbach and conducted by Andriy Yurkevich, Music Director of the State Opera, the new Prague adaptation of L’elisir d’amore will feature a splendid international cast.

8/8/2023

The Terezín Music Academy to present the very first operetta by a female composer

Opera

Musica non grata

From 14 to 17 August, the third edition of the Terezín Music Academy will take place in Terezín, Litoměřice and Prague within the Musica non grata project, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague and the Terezín Composers Institute. The highlight is a performance of a concert version of the very first operetta composed by a woman. Just like in previous years, the Terezín Music Academy has invited young professional artists. Open to the general public, it features free concerts and lectures in Terezín, Litoměřice and Prague.

15/6/2023

The monumental Gurre-Lieder returning to the State Opera after 102 years

Opera

Musica non grata

Concert

Arnold Schönberg’s Late-Romantic cantata Gurre-Lieder, based on a 14th-century Danish legend, will again be heard at the State Opera in Prague, which hosted its Czech premiere 102 years ago. A colossal apparatus of almost 250 singers and instrumentalists, including the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, will appear under the conductor Petr Popelka. Part of the Musica non grata project, the programme will contribute to the celebrations marking the centenary of Czech Radio.

13/6/2023

The most popular Italian verismo operas, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci, to be presented at the State Opera in Prague within a double bill directed by Ondřej Havelka

Opera

The State Opera

The current season at the State Opera in Prague will round off with the premiere on 15 June of a new production of the Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci double bill, with the latter being performed first.

7/6/2023

The new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Estates Theatre explores relationships and love from a novel angle of vision, that of a female conductor/director tandem

Opera

A new adaptation of Le nozze di Figaro, to be premiered on 9 June at the Estates Theatre in Prague, rounds off the “Da Ponte cycle” (also containing Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte) of new National Theatre productions of W. A. Mozart operas.

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