Part one: Hello, you are listening to Opera Plus podcast about all the things that set the Czech dance scene in motion. Hana Polanská greets you from the microphone.” “In today’s session we’ll be talking mainly about the most contemporary events surrounding Tanec Praha organization.” “Recently, the artists and collaborators of Tanec Praha, which is (besides else) the organizer of the TANEC PRAHA festival and the operator of the PONEC theatre, received an e-mail with information about changes in the management and production of the PONEC theatre. The founder and director of Tanec Praha, Yvona K ..read more

by Lenka Dohnalová American pianist of Serbian-Russian origin, Eugen Indjic (1947), belongs to the top of his field. He is a long-time friend of the Czech country and Czech musical culture. Unfortunately, he was afflicted by a progressive autoimmune disease, leaving him bedridden and unable to carry on with his career and teaching responsibilities. He lives with his family in seclusion in Villeneuve-sur-Verberie, north of Paris, with his wife Odile. We are glad that he agreed to an interview on the occasion of the award presentation of the Czech Music Council at his home. In one of the intervi ..read more

Autor: Daniela Hanelová Visually powerful images that will imprint on your memory for a long time. Dynamic bodies, raw emotions, and an exquisite sense of detail. These are the ingredients that distinguish the work of the film director Adi Halfin (ISR/GER). Her dance films Home Alone and Earth Odyssey became viral hits and received many awards, but the range of her artistic interest is much wider. Within the Dance On Screen Festival in Graz, where the workshop with Adi Halfin was also held, we had the unique opportunity to glimpse into the world of this inspiring artist, and learn something ab ..read more

review by Milan Valden The German composer Detlev Glanert is one of the most successful contemporary opera composers and has already written fourteen operas and stage works. The most recent is Die Jüdin von Toledo, with a libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, loosely based on the play of the same name by Franz Grillparzer. The world premiere, directed by Robert Carsen and scored by Jonathan Darlington, took place at the Semperoper Dresden on Saturday, February 10 2024. Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg in 1960 and spent four years studying under composer Hans Werner Henze in Cologne. He saw his f ..read more

Před několika dny jsme zveřejnili polemickou glosu Filipa Staňka o Cenách Thálie a principech oceňování tanečních výkonů. Na ni reaguje ve své polemice Roman Vašek, předseda poroty Cen Thálie v kategorii Balet, tanec a pohybové divadlo. Ceny Thálie (zdroj Ceny Thálie) Debatu opět rozvířil Filip Staněk ve své úvaze publikované na Opeře PLUS 29. září 2023. Na jedné straně je Cenám Thálie přisuzována osudová váha, jako by měla definitivně zpečetit úspěch celé umělecké kariéry. Na straně druhé je silně kritizována nebo dokonce zesměšňována. Podle Filipa Staňka uměleckému prostředí dokonce škodí a ..read more

Patricia Burda Janečková (source National Moravian-Silesian Theatre) Patricia Burda Janečková was born in Germany to Slovak parents, grew up and lived in Ostrava, where she studied opera singing at the Janáček Conservatory. She has appeared at festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad, performed as a soloist with many Czech and Slovak symphony and chamber orchestras, and worked at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre. In 2010, at the age of twelve, she won the Czech-Slovak TV competition Talentmania. In 2014 she became the absolute winner of the Concorso Internazionale Musica Sacra world si ..read more

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The debate was once again stirred up by Filip Staněk in his reflection published on Opera PLUS on 29 September 2023. On the one hand, the Thalia Awards are attributed a fatal weight, as if they should finally seal the success of an entire artistic career. On the other, it is heavily criticised or even ridiculed. According to Filip Staňek, it is even harmful to the artistic environment and disrespectful to artists. Let’s take a more sober look at the Thalia Prize. According to Staňek, it is nonsense to compete in art, let alone in something as unwilling and ephemeral as theatre or dance. Yes, w ..read more

Lenka Hlávková (zdroj Ústav hudební vědy Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy) Včerejší útok na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, který si vyžádal čtrnáct obětí a dalších 25 zraněných, zanechal Českou republiku v hlubokém smutku. Mezi oběťmi byla i ředitelka Ústavu hudební vědy Filozofické fakulty, Lenka Hlávková. Ústav potvrdil její úmrtí a vyjádřil lítost nad touto nečekanou ztrátou: “S hlubokou lítostí oznamujeme, že včerejší nadějeplné zprávy se bohužel nepotvrdily. Na základě ověřené informace od rodiny a s jejím svolením oznamujeme, že naše kolegyně a ředitelka ..read more

Vojtěch Kuchynka (also Vojta Kuchynka) was a Czech double bassist and composer. He was born on 7 May 1871 in Nový Strasecí and died in Tábor on 1 May 1942. He wrote more than 150 works for double bass. Life and education Vojtěch Kuchynka was born on 7 May 1871 in Nové Strašecí, where his father was the town secretary. From 1885 to 1891 he was a pupil of Vendelin Sladek at the Prague Conservatoire in the double bass. After graduation he stayed there for another year to study only concert compositions. He also studied composition with Antonín Dvořák from 1891 to 1893. Knittl, Stecker and Klička ..read more