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The Festival Must Go On: Prague Spring Festival To Welcome Live Audiences

The Prague Spring Festival (Festival Pražské Jaro) is part of the Czech Ministry of Culture’s pilot program to reintroduce concerts with live audiences, under strict guidelines set by the Czech

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Taking Flight: Three Prague-Based Cultural Organizations Team Up to Crowdfund a New Beginning

A former movie theater called Vzlet (which means “to take flight” in Czech) founded by the Sokol organization during the First Republic era, will turn into a cultural center in

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A Musical Advent Calendar? The National Theater Opera and the State Opera Launch Their New Online Project

The soloists, choruses, and orchestras of the two Prague-based opera ensembles are collaborating to create an advent calendar made of short clips filmed in all three historical opera houses of

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Maria Baranova: The dialogue between you, your partner and the public is most important

We met Maria Baranova, prima ballerina of the Munich Ballet, thanks to the Bubeníček International Ballet Gala project. This fragile dancer radiates enthusiasm for her profession and strives to popularize

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Czech Composer, Poet, and Improviser Markéta Procházková-Lutková Passes Away Too Soon

It’s not easy to find information online about the multifaceted and eccentric artist Markéta Procházková-Lutková but those who knew her, especially her students, agree that she was one of the

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Soprano Patricia Burda Janečková died at the age of 25

Patricia Burda Janečková (source National Moravian-Silesian Theatre)Patricia Burda Janečková was born in Germany to Slovak parents, grew up and lived in Ostrava, where she studied opera singing at the Janáček

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