ALL YEAR - PRAHA
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art is a newly established independent non-profit institution situated in Prague - Holešovice presenting international contemporary art, architecture and design. The unique project in the Czech Republic opened in October last year. Mission of the centre is to present and advance contemporary art in the context of...
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7 Sep 2010
, 8:00PM
- PRAHA
You encounter a number of new elements in the Black box performance. You will be surprised by possibilities of black effects, luminescent lights and their visual effects. Modern dance is supported by perfect black light technique, causing dancers and objects to levitate, rotate and move in defiance of the rules of gravity.
Constituent elements...
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ALL YEAR - PRAHA
A reconstructed space in the House at a Golden Ring (Dům U Zlatého prstenu) will again liven by a permanent exposition. The authors of the conception by means of several works of the artistic generation will map the fundamental socio-cultural and economic changes, which followed in Bohemia after the year 1989.
This turning point will be...
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7 Sep 2010
, 8:00PM
- PRAHA
Welcome to our miraculous circus where you can join two clowns following the mysterious beauty of Venus, experiencing numerous adventures. Enjoy a performance full of perfectly attuned scenic dance, pantomime and black theatre.
The theatre has the unique privilege of presenting the whole of a lifetime in a single night. The comedy we offer...
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3 Aug 2010
- 31 Oct 2010
, 10:00AM - 6:00PM
- PRAHA
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19 May 2010
- 30 Sep 2010
, 10:00AM - 6:00PM
- PRAHA
The new exhibition Marathon 2500, taking place in the New Building of the National Museum, wants to commemorate three things: 2500 years from the Battle of Marathon and the run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides to Athens with the message of victory, the winner of the Olympic marathon in 1952 Emil Zátopek and the important sportingly-cultural...
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1 Jan 2010
- 31 Dec 2010
- PRAHA
In the year 2010 the Prague astronomical clock will celebrate already 600 years from its creation. The Old Town clock is one of the most precious and most famous Prague historical sights. It is located on a Gothic tower of the Old Town Hall on the Old Town Square. The clock is the mature work of Czech Gothic science and technology and at the same...
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ALL YEAR - PRAHA
President Havel has been awarded many orders by foreign governments. It is his desire that The National Museum should make his collection available to be viewed by the general public.
From time immemorial people have not only displayed visible emblems of power and success but have also been decorated with the symbols of service and gratitude....
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7 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Is The Magic Flute a remarkable fairy-tale with comic elements, a folk comedy or an encoded work, full of freemason symbols? Is it merely a story of love overcoming all obstacles, or a piece motivating the viewer to attempt achieving perfection? – The work contains all these planes and because of this it remains a challenge for all producers....
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8 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
The final decade of the 19th century witnessed the emergence of new themes in the world of Italian opera, inspired by the realistic literary production of the period. Having shed the limitations of Romantic idealization, Emile Zola’s naturalistic writing aspired to portraying the world with all its dark sides and suffering, an approach which...
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8 Sep 2010
, 8:00PM
- PRAHA
Afrikania is the latest performance of Image Theatre. The funny story of a married couple and their unconventional holidays mingle with impressive images of the Afrikania landscape with various animal species. A postman looking for its addressee is forced into a different unexpected situation. Professional acting and dancing pieces with magical...
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9 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Dvořák’s ardent melodiousness, both tender and dramatically extreme, his masterly deployment of musical motifs and full-blooded orchestral instrumentation, together with Jaroslav Kvapil’s libretto, reminiscent of Erben’s simple and at the same time extremely cogent ballads, make Rusalka a work of sheer rapturous beauty,...
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9 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
The first night of Bizet’s Carmen in Paris in 1875 passed almost unnoticed, without success. Only eight years after Bizet’s death did Carmen triumphantly enter opera houses and ever since has been one of the most frequently staged operas. Librettists Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy were inspired by Prosper Merimé’s...
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9 Sep 2010
, 8:30PM
- PRAHA
OUTDOOR THEATRE FESTIVAL
Phantomysteria
"So to my soul I have said, be calm, let the dark come down on you, and it will be the dark of G-d".
PHANTOMYSTERIA are allegories of an apocalyptic catastrophe coming as a consequence of discovering a way to fulfill everyone's wishes. The world was destroyed because of this find and...
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10 Sep 2010
, 8:00PM
- PRAHA
Dear visitors, welcome to my Cabinet.
After years of hard work trying to solve Pražák's Circular Paradox I have decided to make the results of my research public to both the layman and experts. As the official institutions have not been very understanding I have decided, or rather, I have been forced, to establish the Cabinet at my...
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10 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Verdi’s La traviata has figured on the repertoire of this opera house ever since its foundation, when the new company co-opted the production of Prague’s German Estates Theatre. It then served chiefly as a vehicle for guest-appearances by illustrious international singers, including among others the legendary Australian soprano, Nellie...
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11 Sep 2010
, 8:30PM - 9:30PM
- PRAHA
OUTDOOR THEATRE FESTIVAL
The ARK
„The Ark - the perfomance of the phenomen of the street theatre Teatr Ósmego dnia - is one of the best street project talkes about present World.“ “The Ark” still reminds us that we are living in the age of refugees, vagabonds, and nomads, who travel across continents, and warm...
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11 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Kudykam, a 1,600 verse-long song text with music by Petr Hapka staged at the Prague State Opera is a theatrical play in verse, part sung, part spoken: a “one-poem play,“ one might label it with a touch of an overstatement.
The story deals with the inner journey of the hero (Martin), who is seen at the beginning in his small room at...
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11 Sep 2010
, 8:00PM
- PRAHA
Our theatre is open to an audience from all continents. Visitors settle down in the theatre every night and we perform for them. However, the theatre is a living organism changing in time, changing the mood of the audience and feelings of the actors. These feelings are borne again every night and die at the end of the performance to be ready for...
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11 Sep 2010
, 8:00PM
- PRAHA
Dance and music on the European Courts 17th and 18th century.
Reconstruction of dances from the greatest operas and ballets baroque period.
Carnevale Baroque Orchestra & Hartig & Nobles Danseures esambles.
Music Masters - A. Vivaldi, W.A. Mozart, G.F. Handel, J.B. Lully, ...
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12 Sep 2010
, 8:30PM
- PRAHA
OUTDOOR THEATRE FESTIVAL
Romeo a Julie
The most beautiful story of history, Romeo and Julie from William Shakespeare, the story of neverending love
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12 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
The story of Carmen, a passionate Gipsy whose love can never be won for good and whose flighty life ends at the hand of a spurned lover, the soldier Don José, has captivated audiences worldwide for decades. Carmen is an opera abounding in sensuous and sultry melodies, which the stage director Jozef Bednárik has succeeded in shaping...
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12 Sep 2010
, 8:00PM
- PRAHA
You encounter a number of new elements in the Black box performance. You will be surprised by possibilities of black effects, luminescent lights and their visual effects. Modern dance is supported by perfect black light technique, causing dancers and objects to levitate, rotate and move in defiance of the rules of gravity.
Constituent elements...
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12 Sep 2010
, 11:00AM
- PRAHA
The theme of this charming fairy-tale opera is taken over from Božena Němcová’s folk tale of the same name about the brazen and fearless Kate, the wily shepherd Jirka and the duped devil Marbuel. Dvořák created a masterly patchwork of contrasting scenes – folksy, breezy, fiendishly fervent and courtly noble. Adolf...
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15 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Giuseppe Verdi’s paramount opera about the Egyptian chieftain Rhadames, his love for the slave Aida and the jealousy of Princess Amneris is presented at the National Theatre in a classical production affording great scope to highlighting beautiful melodies in effective scenes and arias.
Orchestra, choir and ballet of the National Theatre...
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15 Sep 2010
- 23 Sep 2010
- PLZEŇ
Aims and Programme of the Festival
Festival Aims
* To present a Show Case of the Czech theatre
* To introduce the most outstanding and remarkable foreign productions together with a digest of the Czech ones, within a broad thematic and style scale of the scenes (drama, music, dance, puppet or street theatre).
* To collate Czech professional...
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17 Sep 2010
- 2 Jan 2011
- PRAHA
Exhibition of works by the renowned Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani.
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18 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
The Bartered Bride, an evergreen of Czech theatre and one of the icons of Czech culture in general, has been staged at the National Theatre virtually continuously from the very beginning up to the present day. In recent years it has already become a tradition that each new artistic management of the opera has created their own production of The...
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25 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Swan Lake ranks among the most famous classical ballet titles and forms part of the repertoire of all major theatres worldwide. The German fairy tale about Princess Odette, transfigured into a swan, the evil sorcerer Red Beard and the hapless Prince who forgets about his promise has gained immortality owing to P. I. Tchaikovsky’s music, as...
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25 Sep 2010
, 5:00PM
- PRAHA
Dear spectators, the performance which we have this time prepared for you is a little bit as famed as unknown. It is a constructed programme – a package of the best display of our performances. Some of them you maybe know from your previous visit of Laterna magika, others may attract you to see the whole version of the shows which are still...
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26 Sep 2010
, 2:00PM
- PRAHA
A dance fantasy to the motifs of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales
Bohemia Balet – the ensemble of the Prague Dance Conservatory – has prepared for our “little” spectators a new premiere: a dance fantasy to the motifs of fairy tales by the celebrated Danish writer, poet and playwright Hans Christian Andersen...
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26 Sep 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
One of the most successful European choreographers of our time, Yuri Vámos, has won acclaim for his highly individual adaptations of such ballet classics as The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, or Spartacus. In his version of The Sleeping Beauty, he transformed, in close collaboration with the stage artist Michael Scott, the traditional...
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1 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Love, jealousy, hate, death – these are the attributes of many operas and so it is with this, the most famous, opera by Puccini. It is set against the background of political strife in Italy in 1800. Dramatically it is once more an opera, which enthrals by its dramatic suspense and scenes imbued with passionate commotion and despair....
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2 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
The work was made to order (commissioned by the Egyptian viceroy and opera lover Ismail Pasha) for the ceremonial opening of the Suez Canal (November 17, 1869), although Verdi only started writing it after its opening.
Verdi endowed the story of the Ethiopian princess Aida, imprisoned as a slave at the court of Egyptian pharaohs and living out...
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5 Oct 2010
- 10 Oct 2010
- PRAHA
Designblok is the annual week-long exhibition of new pieces from the world of design.
Next, 12th annual Days of design in Prague Designblok´10 will take place in the week of
5. - 10. 10. 2010
Designblok takes place in selected showrooms, boutiques, and galleries situated all over Prague.
Accompanying programme including the...
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6 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
The ballet by Sergey Prokofiev represents one of the most charming stagings of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale of the modest and graceful girl who, unlike her two step-sisters, did not hunt for her luck and still won the love of a handsome prince in the end. This staging of Prokofiev’s ballet by the outstanding Czech choreographer Pavel...
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7 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Turandot is the last opera by G. Puccini, who died shortly before finishing it. He found the theme in Schiller’s dramatisation of Carlo Gozzi’s Persian fairy-tale (originally a tale from the collection of dervish Mokles’ Thousand and One Nights) about a Chinese princess. The opera contains absorbing, highly dramatic scenes between...
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12 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Verdi was highly captivated by the possibility of bringing a hunchback on stage, a cripple with derision on his lips, tears in his eyes and anxiety in his soul. A person, who knows well enough his doings are wrong, apprehending all the more the curse fallen on his head. Rigoletto is a tragedy of social injustice and inequality, which is evident...
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12 Oct 2010
- 14 Nov 2010
, 10:00AM - 6:00PM
- PRAHA
Organized by the Forum 2000 Foundation in conjunction with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, The Nippon Foundation and Prague’s New Town Hall, this exhibition commemorates the 65th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The theme of the exhibition also ties in with the recent treaty...
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13 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Who would not know the most famous barber of all time: Figaro, who masterfully commands both his razor and his gorgeous shrewdness that helps Count Almavivo win over his beloved Rosina? Love, tricks and intrigues are the ingredients of Rossini’s masterful comic opera. The sparkling charms of his score, spectacular virtuoso parts performed by...
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14 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Although Nabucco is only Verdi’s third opera, he has managed to create a highly suggestive work on the biblical topic. He was first captivated by the beginning of psalm 136 in the libretto: “Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” (Fly, thought, upon gilded wings...), which inspired him to a spontaneous composition of a choir, whose...
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19 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
The opera is based on an American writer’s novel, written according to a true event. The composer found everything he needed in the story of Cio-Cio-San’s unhappy love – a sentimental story, sharp plot contrasts, exotic setting, action and tenderness. The spiritual background of the opera is the meeting of two cultures – in...
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20 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE – THE SPANISH SYNAGOGUE
Premiere: October 20, 2010
Silent film with live music by Miloš Orson Štědroň in the unique space
of the Spanish Synagogue.
Directed by Alexander Granovsky, SSSR, 1925, 100 min
Silent, with English and Czech intertitles
Print restored and digitized by The National...
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26 Oct 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
My Country, the monumental cycle of symphonic poems by Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), is a unique apotheosis of the composer’s love for his motherland. Smetana himself wrote a brief outline of the contents of the cycle’s individual parts. The work, which he dedicated to the city of Prague, was first performed on November 5, 1882....
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1 Nov 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
The first premiere of the National Theatre Ballet this season will be the famous ballet The Rite of Spring. Under this title, audiences will have the opportunity to see a set of several new choreographies created by Petr Zuska. The mixed bill will open with a current of classical and neoclassical dance to the splendid strains of Mahler’s...
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3 Nov 2010
- 5 Dec 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
About the Musical
The musical/rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar was created by lyricist Tim Rice and music composer Andrew Lloyd Webber in the year 1969. It is a story about last days of Jesus Christ from his arrival to Jerusalem till his crucifixion. Being not sure about the reaction of believers and Church the producers produced first the...
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14 Nov 2010
, 2:00PM
- PRAHA
The protagonists of Jules Massenet’s operas and oratorios are mostly female, as is indeed implied already by the names of his works: Thaïs, Hérodias, La Navarroise, Sappho, Ariane, Thérèse, Grisélidis, Cendrillon, Cléopâtre, Manon, Marie-Magdeleine. Setting an exception to the rule, the hero of...
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26 Nov 2010
- 10 Apr 2011
- PRAHA
The National Gallery in Prague is preparing the exhibition Karel Škréta (1610-1674): His Times and Work in collaboration with the Prague Castle Administration. The exhibition will be held from November 26, 2010 to April 10, 2011 in the Wallenstein Riding School Gallery and the Prague Castle Riding School Gallery in Prague.
Karel...
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27 Nov 2010
- 1 Jan 2011
- PRAHA
Christmas markets on the Old Town Square.
The selling little houses will be open every working day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the weekend then from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The stands with refreshments can be open even until midnight. Also this year there has been prepared an attractive souvenir for the market visitors, which will be taken home by those...
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24 Dec 2010
- 26 Dec 2010
- PRAHA
Illuminated streets, merry rush of Christmas markets, ceremonial decorations and omnipresent Christmas carols will persuade even the hard-core enemies of Christmas holidays that Christmas in the Czech Republic belong to the most beautiful time of year.
Old folk traditions are reminded not only by brick museums and open-air museums, but also by...
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31 Dec 2010
- 1 Dec 2010
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
Celebrate the New Year at this sumptuous Gala Event in the Prague State Opera.
This very special evening will commence with a cocktail reception and continue with performance of Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss). Between acts a dinner will be prepared and, of course, there will be a toast at midnight to welcome a New Year. Continue the celebrations...
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23 Jan 2011
, 2:00PM
- PRAHA
“Dangerously fascinating, frighteningly and sweetly infinite,” was how Friedrich Nietzsche characterized the opera, Tristan und Isolde, written by Richard Wagner to his own libretto between 1857 and 1859. He drew inspiration from the epic, Tristan und Isolt, by Gottfried von Strassburg (d. around 1210), who in his turn based it drew on...
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8 Feb 2011
, 7:00PM
- PRAHA
The brand-new, full-length narrative ballet Othello has been specially created for the National Theatre Ballet by the groundbreaking choreographer and stage director Youri Vàmos. The world premiere performances of the work, conceived to Leoš Janáček’s music, will take place in the historical building of the National...
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