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A revival of Robert Carsen's production at the Janáček Festival Preview benefits from an excellent cast and exemplary playing from the house ensemble.

Jakub Hrůsa, the Czech Philharmonic and a superb cast of singers give the full treatment to Smetana’s celebratory paean to the Czech nation.

Armida offers a compelling story, resonant issues and the spectacle of dueling wizards – but unfortunately, not in this production.

Jakub Hrůša leads a musically thrilling but dramatically problematic From the House of the Dead and Glagolitic Mass at the 2022 Janáček Brno International Festival.

Dvořák's failed King and Charcoal Burner gets a second chance and new life at his namesake festival.

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.

A night of Egyptian musical and scenic splendour.

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.

“What Czech does not like music?” declares Beneš, the jailor in Smetana’s opera Dalibor. Certainly not Jiří Bělohlávek, who is as superb an advocate for Czech music as any conductor in the world right now.

Die Eröffnung der Konzertsaison der Bamberger Symphoniker bestach durch ein bezwingendes geistliches Programm aus zumeist mährischer Herkunft.

Robert Carsen schafft eine subtile aber meisterhaft vielschichtige neue Inszenierung.