CZECH MUSIC FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES FILL 2007 CALENDAR
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Dates, locations, programs, concerts, performers and orchestras for 2007 Czech music festivals:
The Antonín Dvorák Music Festival runs from May 11 to 29 in Pribram City concert halls, the Antonín Dvorák Monument in Vysoká's neo-Renaissance chateau, the Svatá Hora Basilica and the František Drtikol Gallery at Ernestina chateau.
On May 11, the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice performs the opening concert, with soloist Gabriela Demeterová, conducted by Charles Olivieri-Munroe. Performances include The Epoque Quartet on May 14, The Prague Cello Duo on May 17, The Czech Clarinet quartet on May 20, Edita Keglerová on May 22, The Siraels Trio on May 24 and The Gentlemen Singers on May 27. The final concert by the Suk Chamber Orchestra is on May 29.
The dates for the Czech Republic's 6th Dvorák's Olomouc International Music Festival are May 11 to June 2. Performances include two solo concerts of Antonín Dvorák music by Václav Hudecek and Eugen Prochác, music by Dvorák’s friend Brahms, and the Jazz Rudolfinum Big Band, led by Milan Svoboda. On May 24, the Metropol Cinema screens a classic silent film, accompanied by orchestra music.
The dates for the 62nd Prague Spring International Music Festival are May 12 to June 3. Following an opening performance of My Fatherland symphonies by the Czech Philharmonic, the festival will host 46 concerts, nine theater performances and seven competition concerts in 17 Prague locations: Municipal House, Rudolfinum, Church of SS Simon and Jude, National Theatre, State Opera, Star Summer Palace and the Church of St Luke in Krecovice.
The Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Václav Trojan and Jirí Srnka on May 31 at the Municipal House. Additional performances include the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, cellist Stephen Isserlis, trumpeter Alison Balsom, pianist Andrei Gavril and the Czech sopranos, Gabriela Benacková and Eva Urbanová, who will sing arias and duets from Dvorák's Rusalka and Janácek’s Její pastorkyne at the Rudolfinum on May 27.
Finals for the Prague Spring International Music Competition on conductorship take place May 13 at the Rudolfinum and May 14 for the French horn. The City of Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK and conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky perform the Czech music festival's last concert on June 3 at the Municipal House. It will feature music by Lukáš Matoušek, Otakar Ostrcil and Antonín Dvorák.
From May 21 to June 8, Ostrava hosts the Czech Republic's 32nd annual Janáceks May International Music Festival. It opens with the Katovice National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra performance of Janácek's Simphonietta. Violinist, Gidon Kremer, and his Kremerata Baltica Ensemble perform on May 29. The City of Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, conducted by Serge Baudo, performs a French program on May 30. Mariza sings Portuguese fado on June 5. Performance locations include Ostrava Castle, Landek Mining Museum, Church of St Nicholas and Ostrava Puppet Theatre.
The border between the Czech Republic and Germany is the location for the annual Mitte Europa Festival, on June 10 to July 29. Cellist, Jirí Bárta and the Prague Chamber Philharmonic perform the opening concert in Oelsnitz. Lichtenstein music, from the Kromeríž collection, will be performed by La Beata Olanda on June 17 at Nový hrad near Jimlín. On July 1, music festival participants will hear a wind quintet performance, in Kadan, by the Kapellquintett Dresden.
On July 8, at the Cistercian monastery in Osek, the Tölzer Knabenchor boys choir will sing six of Bach's motets. At the Church of St Mary, in Chlum, the NeoBarock ensemble will perform Baroque music. On June 30, Hot Club Harmonists play European swing in Šabina. The Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion are the final performance in Carlsbad.
After the music festival, there is an art exhibit by Willy Nowak, in Cheb, and a graphic art and illustration exhibit by Vladimír Suchánek in Most.
The dates for the Hluboká Summer of Music Festival in the Czech Republic are June 14 to September 13. Musical concerts take place in the Aleš South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou beside an art exhibition by Zdenek Beran. An exhibit of contemporary Czech art will be held in September.
Medieval Czech music from Dyškanti, from Ceské Budejovice, opens The Summer of Music. On June 28, Bena Havlu plays the xylophone and on July 12 the M. Nostitz Quartet performs. On July 26, pianist Ondrej Hubácek performs music by new artists in Hluboká. Musica dolce vita performs on August 9 and Camael, the female vocal trio Trina and an instrumental quintet, led by violinist Pavel Fischer, perform on August 23. Guitarist, Lubomír Brabec, performs the final concert.
Czech Republic's largest open-air classical music festival, Smetana's Litomyšl International Opera Festival takes place June 15 to July 1, at the UNESCO renaissance chateau in Litomyšl.
Children's performances include the operas The Animals and the Thieves, by Otmar Mácha, The Emperor's New Clothes, by Jirí Teml, and The Little Sweep, by Benjamin Britten. Music from fairytales, children's stories, films and serials will be performed at the Request Concert.
Soprano Eva Urbanová will open the Czech Republic music festival and tenor, Torsten Kerl, will give the final performance. The Smetana's Litomyšl Festival (Opera NDM Ostrava) will perform Puccini's famous Manon Lescaut for the first time. The Czech premiere of Christ's Touch by Vítazoslav Kubicka will be performed.
John Fiore will conduct a performance of A Ring without Words by The National Theatre Orchestra. Other concerts include Dvorák's Saint Ludmila Oratorio and Orff's cantata, Carmina burana, The Wandering Fiddler, first with Zuzana Lapcíková and then with The Czaldy-Waldy Quartet.
Kutna Hora Opera Week, from June 22 to 30, begins with a Musical Cocktail from the musicals, followed by Verdi's Requiem Mass in the Cathedral of St. Barbara on June 24. Puccini's Manon Lescaut, performed by Maria Haan, ends this Czech music festival at the Italian Court.
The dates for the Ceský Krumlov International Music Festival are July 7 to August 25. The classical music Czech festival takes place in the UNESCO-designated historical town centre. Concerts feature music from the Gothic period to the 21st century, including jazz, folk and traditional Irish and French music.
Premieres include Ars Antiqua, by the Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, in the Kájov parish church. Italian pianist Roberto Prosseda will perform newly discovered music from Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. The world premiere of Sonata Berounka, by composer Domeniconi, will be performed in the chateau's Masquerade Hall. The Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, the New York Voices and Cechomor will also perform at this Czech music festival.
Conductors include Manuel Hernandes Silva, from Spain, Amos Talmon, from Israel and Gottfried Rabl, from Austria. Performers include New York Metropolitan Opera and Milan La Scala stars, Jeanine Thames, Annamaria Popescu and Allan Glasman; violin soloists Pavel Šporcl and Joo Young Oh, pianist Tomoni Okumura and violinist Václav Hudecek.
The Czech National Symphonic Orchestra's Prague Proms International Music Festival takes place July 10 to 29. Fifteen classic film music concerts will be held at Smetana Hall in Municipal House, in the Hybernia Palace and the Prague Congress Centre.
This Czech music festival will feature choirs, soloists and the CNSO conducted by Libor Pešek, who conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson will perform on July 24, cellist Miloš Jahoda on July 29 and Czech soprano Eva Urbanová on July 10. The Municipal House hosts Hollywood Night on July 19. A Night for Seal takes place July 14 at the Prague Congress Centre with the singer Seal and the CNSO.
The dates for the Špilberk International Music Festival are August 16 to 26. The entirely symphonic Czech summer music festival will feature five Round the World in Ten Days concerts in the Great Courtyard at Špilberk Castle.
The Brno Philharmonic and conductor Petr Altrichter open the music festival with Wandering through the Alps music by Strauss and Tchaikovsky. The Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, from Zlín, conducted by Jakub Hruša performs Across Europe on August 19 with German, French, Russian and Czech works. The Brno Philharmonic, with British conductor Mikel Toms, performs The World of Film soundtrack music from American classics on August 21.
On August 23, The Prague Chamber Philharmonic and Ondrej Kukal will feature the music of Antonín Dvorák in Through the Land of the Slavs. Italian conductor, Alessandro Crudele, leads the Brno Philharmonic in the final concert of the music festival: The Magic of Water, by Respighi, Dukas and Debussy.
Fall Czech music festivals include the Prague Autumn International Music Festival on September 12 to October 10, the Moravian Autumn International Music Festival, on September 21 to October 6 and the Autumn Festival of Spiritual Music in Olomouc on September 22 to October 19.
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