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The challenges of Cherubini’s version of the Greek tragedy prove too much for the National Theatre to overcome.

Fine vocal and musical performances can't overcome Sláva Daubnerová's staging which misses the mark.

The Prague National Theatre serves up a bright finish to its insightful, troubling tour of interwar music. 

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

A talented cast labors under the yoke of a gender-conscious Così fan tutte in a new production at the Estates Theatre. 

“Who's dead, you or the old man?” asks Leporello after Don Giovanni’s duel with the Commendatore. What if the answer was that they had both received fatal wounds?

The National Theater opens the season with Rodion Shchedrin's searing version of Lolita, with spectacularly disturbing results.

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

Plácido Domingo makes a dramatic recovery for a spirited celebration of the composer's birthday in Prague.

Realism elbows aside romanticism in this dark departure from a star-studded tradition.

More than 200 years after Mozart premiered La clemenza di Tito at the Estates Theatre, Marc Minkowski reveals there are still surprises to be found.

Tradition and modernity are a mismatch in this uneven production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece.

The King of Opera leads an inspired performance commemorating the 230th anniversary of Don Giovanni.

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”.  

In the preface to his monumental 1919 play The Last Days of Mankind, Austrian satirist Karl Kraus said that it would take 10 evenings to stage and was “intended for a theater on Mars”. The National Theatre in Prague has got the running time down to slightly under two hours. Otherwise, that's not a bad description of what premiered on Wednesday night under the title 1914. 

Seeing Don Giovanni at the Estates Theatre in Prague is a special occasion, for two reasons. Firstly, for the history: it’s the theatre where the opera was first performed, back in 1787. Secondly, because today’s Estates Theatre is one of the loveliest opera houses you will find anywhere. Seating just 643, it’s an intimate space, in the classic horseshoe parterre-plus-boxes configuration.

This gem from Martinů received a bright, spirited performance at the Estates Theatre in Prague – putting an early gleam on what should be an interesting year celebrating Czech music.