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Adam Plachetka (Sweeney Todd) and Barbora Perná (Mrs Lovett) © Serghei Gherciu

A musical turn hits all the wrong notes: Sweeney Todd at Prague State Opera

By Frank Kuznik, 24 September 2026

Strong singing and sharp choreography cannot rescue a hybrid version of Sweeney Todd staged by director Martin Čičvák.

**111

**111

Prague

24 Sep 2026

Hitting all the wrong notes: Sweeney Todd at Prague State Opera

By Frank Kuznik

Prague

Nabucco in Prague: a handsome production that tries to do too much

By Frank Kuznik, 21 March 2024

Andriy Yurkevych leads a rousing musical performance, but this visually impressive Nabucco tries to hard to be relevant and misses the mark.

***11

***11

Prague

21 Mar 2024

Nabucco in Prague: handsome but over-ambitious

By Frank Kuznik

Prague

Keith Warner’s Elektra in Prague has neither myth nor menace

By Jonathan Sutherland, 10 June 2016

The main problem with Keith Warner's staging is that the director’s dominating focus is on the Jungian ‘Elektra complex’ rather than Elektra the opera.

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**111

Prague

10 Jun 2016

Warner’s Elektra has neither myth nor menace

By Jonathan Sutherland

Prague

Dancing through Dostoyevsky: The House of the Dead in Prague

By Frank Kuznik, 14 May 2015

Making his operatic debut at Prague's National Theatre, director Daniel Špinar recasts Janáček’s From the House of the Dead as a schizophrenic prison comedy.

***11

***11

Prague

14 May 2015

Dancing through Dostoyevsky: The House of the Dead in Prague

By Frank Kuznik