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Tomáš Netopil and the Czech Philharmonic bring high energy to the Martinů Days festival with a smart, fresh take on Ariadne. 

Petr Popelka takes the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra to heavenly heights with help from a brilliant group of of vocalists.

Conductor Christoph Eschenbach brings style and sophistication to a freewheeling finale to this year's festival, ending with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

A decidedly different Stabat Mater gets expert treatment from Collegium Marianum and two spirited soloists.

Václav Luks and his band of Baroque devotees offer a fresh take on late-period Mozart in Prague.

Christian Gerhaher’s experience in a role he knows well rescued an evening of mitigated pleasures.

The Dvořákʼs Prague festival wraps with four Prague alumni showing why they've gained international fame.

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 ballad, a lovelorn maiden is finally reunited with her dead lover, who immediately tries to trick her into a midnight wedding at a graveyard after dragging her through muddy swamps filled with ghosts and howling animals. 

Prague’s classical music community is walking a little taller and prouder this week. Collegium 1704 stepped up on Saturday night with an 18th century opera program that offered an inspirational reminder of how period music can and should be played.

Sous la direction du chef tchèque, l'Orchestre National de France et le Chœur de Radio France se sont distingués dans un rare et passionnant diptyque de cantates beethovéniennes.

Le duo de metteurs en scène Jean-Philippe Clarac et Olivier Deloeil mettent en scène la trilogie Mozart-Da Ponte à La Monnaie. Place à un Figaro contemporain tourbillonnant et plein d'imagination.

Dans une production contemporaine et provocatrice mettant directement en lien les opéras de la trilogie Mozart-Da Ponte, le casting vocal se montre à la hauteur malgré certaines incohérences de mise en scène.

Félicitons Peter de Caluwe d’avoir pris le risque de mettre Lucio Silla, cet opéra écrit en 1772 par un Mozart adolescent de 16 ans à peine, au programme de cette saison de la toujours aventureuse maison bruxelloise.

Nicht unbedingt lustig, aber dafür musikalisch wunderschön präsentierte sich die letzte SOAP des Styriarte-Sommers.