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SE EU VIVESSE TU MORRIAS Comes to Teatro das figuras This Month by BWW News Desk
- February 07, 2022 The title of this show is taken from Robespierre's pseudo-epitaph: “Passing by, do not cry for my death, if I lived you would die.” The passer-by and Robespierre cannot be alive at the same time and yet that is what playwrights and actors roughly do in theater: the playwright dies, and the actor resurrects him without dying himself.
BLUDNÝ HOLANĎAN v Národním divadle by Krystof Petrasek
- January 26, 2022 Národní divadlo odehrálo ve Státní opeře premiéru Bludného Holanďana z pera Richarda Wagnera, my jsme měli možnost navštívit jeho druhé uvedení. Jak se povedlo zvěčnit námořnickou legendu na půdě renovované scény původně Nového německého divadla?
CUBE Comes to the National Theatre in Prague Next Month by BWW News Desk
- January 20, 2022 The visual composition draws upon the motif of the “cube”, in all kinds of possible variants that surround us. Owing to its structure and the potentialities provided by 3D visualisation, the Rubik’s Cube will represent one of the main motifs.
KRÁSKA A ZVÍŘE v Národním divadle by Krystof Petrasek
- January 12, 2022 V pondělí 10. 1. 2022 odehrálo Národní divadlo na prknech historické budovy premiéru očekávané Krásky a zvířete podle textu Františka Hrubína.
NEW CENTURY is Now Running at the National Theatre in Prague by BWW News Desk
- December 28, 2021 Turning round of the seeming stereotypes results in a surprising effect, by means of which the author not only mocks homophobia, but ridicules the contemporary vague sexual identity and the perverse pleasure found (by some women) in “creating from anything”, a permanent home recycling.
PAPER STORY Comes to the New Stage Beginning This Weekend by BWW News Desk
- December 20, 2021 The production combines mime, contemporary dance with elements of acrobatics, puppetry and animation. In the interactive ending, we will open our new world to the youngest spectators and invite them to join us in putting the finishing touches to it.
HANSEL UND GRETEL Comes to the National Theatre in Prague This Weekend by BWW News Desk
- December 17, 2021 Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is one of the most frequently performed operas in Germany. Inspired by the Grimm brothers’ popular fairy tale, the libretto was written by the composer’s sister Adelheid Wette, who modified the rather macabre story, adding the characters of the Sandman and the Dew Fairy, as well as the instrumental dream pantomime scene in the forest, and concluding it with the resurrection of the witch’s victims and the happy reunion between the children and their parents.
SEDM SMRTELNÝCH HŘÍCHŮ a OČEKÁVÁNÍ ve Státní opeře by Krystof Petrasek
- December 06, 2021 Národní divadlo přináší na svou scénu v pěti uvedeních v rámci projektu Musica non grata večer dvou minioper dvou autorů židovského původu, Kurta Weilla a Arnolda Schönberga. Představení jsou to výrazně odlišná a tento krok udeřit diváka dvěma originálními formami za jeden krátký večer je poněkud odvážné. Jak se tato juxtapozice povedla?
FANTOM OPERY v GoJa Music Hall by Krystof Petrasek
- November 27, 2021 Páteční premiéra obnoveného představení Fantoma Opery proběhla bez větších zaváhání. Po dvou letech v GoJa Music Hall nahradila úspěšnou Čarodějku (Wicked) a přináší hned několik překvapení.
FAUST Begins This Week at National Theatre in Prague by BWW News Desk
- November 17, 2021 A play as the uppermost challenge placed before us by Goethe, as well as the dramatic tradition spanning centuries and including numerous adaptations of the myth about trespassing human limits. We raise the question of what makes Faust our contemporary, what temptations he would have to face today. And how much of the classical opus can actually be transferred to the stage at the beginning of the 21st century.
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Begins Performances at National Theatre in Prague Tonight by BWW News Desk
- November 16, 2021 One of Mozart’s best-known works, Le nozze di Figaro ranks among the most frequently performed operas of all time. Splendidly portraying characters and superbly depicting the relationships between the protagonists, who often find themselves in thorny situations, it provides a more accurate account of late 18th-century morality and immorality than many a history book.
MARYSHA is Now Playing at the National Theatre in Prague by BWW News Desk
- November 15, 2021 The play, based upon a true story about a village girl married against her will, was repeatedly rejected by the dramaturgy of the National Theatre for reasons of excessive naturalism in the way the corrupt relationships among the characters and the circumstances of the murder were depicted.
THE BARTERED BRIDE is Now Playing at the National Theatre in Prague by BWW News Desk
- November 12, 2021 Bedřich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride is a true evergreen of Czech theatre and music. Every single Czech should see the opera at the National at least once! Depicting the story of calculating, ridiculous, but also sincerely loving figures from a small Czech village, the piece has been staged for more than 150 years, enthralling generations and always winning new fans. If you are still not among them, come and see the opera for yourself!
JENUFA Will Be Performed at The National Theatre in Prague by BWW News Desk
- October 13, 2021 Leoš Janáček´s world famous dramatic opera Jenůfa will be performed at The National Theatre in Prague this week. This is the Czech original version with English and German surtitles.
RIGOLETTO Will Be Performed at Prague State Opera This Week by BWW News Desk
- October 05, 2021 Together with La traviata and Il trovatore, Rigoletto (1851) is an opera that made Verdi famous worldwide. Verdi’s splendid melodies and the masterful depiction of the lead characters still enchant opera-lovers around the world.
Prague State Opera Presents LA TRAVIATA This Weekend by BWW News Desk
- September 25, 2021 Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata is based on Alexandre Dumas’s novel La Dame aux camelias, about the famous courtesan and idol of Parisian society in the 1840s. It is in fact the very first significant opera to a contemporary social theme.
AFRIKANIA Returns to Black Light Theatre Image 9/4 by BWW Staff
- September 02, 2021 Afrikania is a journey into the wild with the Black Light Theatre performance in the centre of Prague which will attract also little viewers! It is the non-verbal theatre production and it is an excellent choice if you want to go with your children to the theatre.
DON GIOVANNI Comes To The Estates Theatre by BWW News Desk
- August 26, 2021 And if we were to name the places at which Mozart in person premiered an opera of his and which still function as theatres, the one and only candidate in the world would be the Estates Theatre in Prague. The National Theatre Opera has proudly cherished this unique tradition for decades.
DON GIOVANNI Will Be Performed at Estates Theatre This Weekend by BWW News Desk
- August 24, 2021 The long-standing Mozart tradition belongs among the greatest glories of Prague’s rich cultural history. The Estates Theatre is globally unique as the one and only preserved and still functional venue where a world premiere of the Don Giovanni opera took place with W. A. Mozart himself conducting.
AFRIKANIA Comes to Black Light Theatre Image Today by BWW Staff
- August 12, 2021 Afrikania is a journey into the wild with the Black Light Theatre performance in the centre of Prague which will attract also little viewers! It is the non-verbal theatre production and it is an excellent choice if you want to go with your children to the theatre.
THE BARTERED BRIDE Will Be Performed at the National Theatre in September by BWW News Desk
- August 03, 2021 Bedřich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride is a true evergreen of Czech theatre and music. Every single Czech should see the opera at the National at least once! Depicting the story of calculating, ridiculous, but also sincerely loving figures from a small Czech village, the piece has been staged for more than 150 years, enthralling generations and always winning new fans. If you are still not among them, come and see the opera for yourself!