On April 12, 2013, the much anticipated new Austrian opera house, Linz Opera, will open with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the world premiere of Philip Glass’s newest opera The Lost (Spuren der Verirrten), commissioned for the occasion. As a new house for musical theater and ballet as well as opera, the opening week of festivities will continue [...]
For all the lovers of heavy metal music, the concert taking place at Roxy on December the 6th promises to be a one not to be missed. As in Prague, the local Industrials Epic Tour is featuring two of the most remarkable names in modern metal, Devin Townsend and Fear Factory. Introducing Devin Townsend, multifaceted [...]
This is a very special, last-minute surprise show for Prague, as a prelude to the return of regular English comedy shows from Baby Blue Banana in the new year! Live at The James Joyce, U Obecniho Dvora 4, Prague, , 11000, Czech Republic on 12 November, 2012 20:00 Musical genius and international sex symbol Earl Okin is back! One of the most [...]
The 17th International Festival of Contemporary Art 4 +4 Days in Motion, which is held in Prague from 26th October to November 3rd is here and offers nine days full of cultural adrenalin. Visitors are able to select from a wide spectrum of innovative, progressive and often provocative artistic projects – theater and dance performances, [...]
Nearly all of 140,000 pictures made by Josef and Frantisek Seidel photo studio from 1884 to 1997 are available online in the Museum Fotoatelier Seidel new database that was created thanks to EU subsidies. “People can find their ancestors in this database, they can see what the towns and villages looked like a hundred years [...]
On the 20 th of October Palac Akropolis for the eighth year running will change into the sought out festival of new media- Akropolis Multimedia. This years festival will be dedicated to video mapping, which gives a new dimension not only to the Palace Akropolis but to the show by The Prostitutes. Fans can look [...]
Czechs are going to have more days off with shorter and cooler days ahead. The reasons are simple. Autumn is underway and the Czechs have three big state holidays every year. Recently, people had a free Friday on 28 September. So who have the Czechs to thank for having a longer weekend? Saint Wenceslaus I, [...]
A collection of some plays of former Czech President Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) in a new English translation has been published in the United States and presented in the Czech Centre in Manhattan in the night of today, on the occasion of Havel’s birthday. Havel’s dramas were published by the Theater 61 Press publishing house, part [...]
The 2012 award of the VIZE (Vision) 97 foundation of former Czech president Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) and his widow Dagmar Havlova has been bestowed on late Czech sociologist and university lecturer Miloslav Petrusek. The award is annually presented on October 5, the day of Havel’s birthday. Today the ceremony will be for the first time [...]
Anathema is not a well-known band for the general public, but these 5 guys are one of the most interesting British bands of the last twenty years, at least in terms of the panorama of alternative rock music. Althought they started as gloomy doom metallers, already in 1995 their second album The Silent Enigma showed new ways to extreme metal. From then on, their sound has [...]
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