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Prague Spring International Festival (Pražské Jaro)

The Prague Spring International Music Festival is a permanent showcase for outstanding performing artists, symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles of the world. The first festival was held under the patronage of Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš, and its organizing committee was made up of important figures in Czech musical life. In that year, 1946, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra was celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, and was therefore given the highest honor: to appear on all the orchestral concerts. Such musicians as Karel Ancerl, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Adrian Boult, Rudolf …

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Smetana’s Litomyšl International Opera Festival (Festival Smetanova Litomyšl)

After the Prague Spring, Smetana‘s Litomyšl International Opera Festival is the oldest music festival and the largest open-air classical music festival in the Czech Republic. Since 1949, a great music festival has been organized almost each year between the end of June and the beginning of July in Litomyšl, an old East-Bohemian town where Bedřich Smetana – the founder of Czech national music – was born. It mainly presents opera performances and concert versions of operas, but gala concerts, oratorios, cantatas and song evenings are also included – i.e. all those forms in which …

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International Music Festival Český Krumlov (Mezinárodní hudební festival Český Krumlov)

This year, the Český Krumlov International Music Festival took place in the unique area of Český Krumlov and its vicinity from July 18 to August 23. Nearly thirteen thousand listeners heard 26 concerts of mainly classical music, though other genres such as jazz, rock, musicals and folklore music were also represented. A great number of the music world’s outstanding figures appeared on the concert stage of the 17th annual event. Some are world renown, but don’t come often to the Czech Republic and some visited for the first time ever. Beautiful music in inspiring historic …

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Strings of Autumn International Music Festival (Struny podzimu)

An International Music Festival in its 12th year. 28 September – 19 November 2008. The Strings of Autumn Festival was inaugurated in 1996 Marek Vrabec and Martin Pechanec – originally as a concert series of the Prague Castle Administration which was the very first unified concert series in the modern history of the Castle. Already during the first years of its existence Strings of Autumn won a significant place in cultural and social life, and its open-minded programming made it a striking alternative to the concert offerings of other leading Prague presenters. As a result of a …

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Emmy Destinn Music Festival (Hudební slavnosti Emy Destinnové)

The outstanding Czech soprano Emmy Destinn was among the world´s most famous singers. She enjoyed success on leading opera stages, such as the Berlin Court Opera, Bayreuth, Covent Garden in London, Paris and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, above all in operas by Puccini, Wagner, Verdi, Richard Strauss and Smetana. Among her partners on the stage was the famous Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. After completing her international artistic career, Emmy Destinn lived for many years in seclusion at her mansion in Stráž nad Nežárkou in South Bohemia. She died in České Budějovice in …

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Janáček May International Music Festival (Mezinárodní hudební festival Janáčkův máj)

The International Music Festival „Janáček May“ has been developing the rich musical traditions which have formed a special part of industrial Ostrava's profile since 1921. Due to the festival, the line of modern dramatics, guest performances of forefront composers and artists continues. Ostrava has a large symphony orchestra (The Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava), an opera (The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre), the world renowned Janáček Chamber Orchestra and a whole range of excellent musicians, which – along with suitable concert auditoriums – create good conditions for the …

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Brno International Music Festival (Mezinárodní hudební festival Brno)

The Brno International Music Festival has been held at the end of September and the beginning of October each year since 1966. The festival is a member of the European Festivals Association (since 1993) and the European Conferences of Promoters of New Music, as well as a founding member of the Czech Association of Music Festivals. The festival´s themes commemorate important composer anniversaries, and it also highlights significant contemporary musical trends. Each year it features around thirty symphonic and chamber music concerts, as well as vocal and instrumental recitals, opera and …

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International Music Festivals of 13 towns (Mezinárodní hudební festival 13 měst)

During the eight years of its existence the Concentus Moraviae Festival has built a position as one of the most important festivals in the Czech Republic. Now the second largest classical music festival in our country after Prague Spring, it is unique above all in the extraordinary emphasis placed on the quality and inventiveness of its programming, planned around a different original theme each year. Also contributing to its exceptionality is the fact that the festival concerts, offering first-class performances, are held exclusively in smaller cities and towns of the Czech Republic. The …

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