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Directors Martin Kukučka and Lukáš Trpišovský, who work together as SKUTR, take on Dvořák’s Rusalka with a surfeit of ideas. 

Jakub Hrůša and his Czech forces give an impressive account of a mass which with its ecclesiastical elements, yet pantheistic spirit and visceral energy points towards a more secular age.

Aided by spirited singers and enthusiastic musicians, director Ondřej Havelka brings an imaginative, ironic touch to a lesser-known Smetana opera.

Barbora Horáková's imaginative updating of The Marriage of Figaro sags under its own weight at the Estates Theatre, Prague.

Choreography isn't the only thing lacking in Alexander Zemlinsky's comic gem Kleider machen Leute.

A strong international cast and fine musicianship from the orchestra carries on Strauss's legacy with a smart, antic romp.

Calixto Bieito's surreal production of Erwin Schulhoff's forgotten opera takes the audience to the heart of darkness.

A twin tribute slices and dices the composer's life and leaves a bad aftertaste.

Invigorating in the pit, Britten’s Billy Budd never gets its sea legs on the National Theatre stage.

The National Theatre opens its new season with a Verdi favorite short on substance but lovely to hear.

A new opera at the National Theater takes on a tragic chapter of communist history with mixed success.

Whilst the spirit of Mozart permeates the Estates Theatre in Prague, it was sadly absent in both the staging and singing of his “work of uninterrupted perfection”.  

A twin bill of fairy tales in Prague delights and disappoints.