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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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Embracing the Unknown: Dance and Performance in the Light of Critical Thought Offered by Dancetopia 2025 in Kounice

This is an open-ended conversation with American artists and dance theorists Nora Thompson and Chloë Engel, recorded during the Dancetopia 2025 festival in the forest setting of Kounice. The gathering

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I’m closing the circle – as an American, I’ll be presenting Korngold in his native Moravia, says Joshua Brown

The Lednice-Valtice Music Festival will welcome on October 18, 2025, a violinist hailed as one of the most remarkable talents of his generation. Joshua Brown, still at the beginning of

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Arkadij Volodos at the Firkušný Festival: A Master of Miniature, Mood, and Character

For many lovers of the piano, the very name Arcadi Volodos dilates the pupils and sharpens the senses in anticipation of what is to come. Prague audiences had the good

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Composers Are Originals – Tomáš Netopil Breaks the Conductor vs. Composer Myth

interview by Anna Šerých On 9th of April 2025 the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK where the newly designated chief conductor, Tomáš Netopil, officially introduced the orchestra’s programme for the upcoming

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Main news of the season: Jakub Hrůša takes over the baton of the Czech Philharmonic

-David Mareček, Chief Executive of the Czech Philharmonic, has just announced that the renowned Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša will assume the role of Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic beginning

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