Art Against Death: the music of Terezín

Bedřich Fritta: A View of Terezin (1941–44)

Leo Haas: Cabaret in the courtyard, Terezín (1942–44)

Hans Krása, Brundibár, autograph score, Terezín, 1943

Performance of Mendelssohn’s Elias at Terezín: still from The Führer Gives a City to the Jews

By Frank Kuznik, 06 June 2024

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“Our endeavor with respect to the arts was commensurate with our will to live”

Frank Kuznik, 14th November

The German conductor talks about good fortune, taking on new opera productions, his experiences as a musician in the pit as well as at the podium, and why Prague State Opera is “super!”.

Songs from home: Magdalena Kožená in conversation

Elena Luporini, 10th November

Awarded with the 2025 Antonín Dvořák Award together with her husband Sir Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kožená talks about the richness of Czech music, language barriers, and the importance of reading programme notes.

Stylus fantasticus: Vojtěch Jakl on Early music in Czechia

Lawrence Dunn, 3rd November

Taking a broad look at the current state of Early music across Europe, we talk to young artists in several countries – beginning with talented young Czech violinist, Vojtěch Jakl.

Jakub Hrůša appointed new Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic

Bachtrack, 30th June

Hrůša will initially be on a five-year contract, but the orchestra has already signalled its intention of this being the beginning of a long-term relationship.

Bohemian groves: a walk through Smetana’s homeland

Frank Kuznik, 13th June

The father of Czech music, Bedřich Smetana’s music is indelibly tied to the landscapes Bohemia. We take a journey through locations and memorials to this essential figure of Czech culture.

Discovering Dvořák’s musical home in Bohemia

Frank Kuznik, 30th May

We take a trip to Antonín Dvořák’s birthplace, the composer summer hideaway Vysoká, and other spectacular cultural destinations in Central Bohemia.

Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.