The Estates Theatre

Uncle Vanya

Mar 14 – Jun 28, 2013

Desire, disappointment, hope, anger – the feelings that accompany humans from the moment they start to realise that life is slipping through their fingers. We...

Don Giovanni

Jan 25 – Jun 23, 2013

The opera Don Giovanni, the Estates Theatre and the long-standing Mozart tradition are among the greatest glories of Prague’s cultural history. The Estates Theatre is...

The Ninth Heart

Feb 9 – Jun 20, 2013

In 1978 Juraj Herz shot two remarkable films with fairy-tale motifs: The Beauty and the Beast and The Ninth Heart. The latter is noted for...

Le nozze di Figaro

Oct 4 – Jun 18, 2013

The world-famous operatic adaptation of Beaumarchais’s “banned” theatre play originated in Vienna in 1786. Mozart chose the theme himself and asked the Italian poet Lorenzo...

Goldilocks

Jun 1 – Jun 15, 2013

The National Theatre Ballet does not neglect its youngest audience and decided to dedicate this performance to children. The choreographer Jan Kodet and the stage...

The Garden Party

Jun 13 – Jun 14, 2013

Václav Havel wrote the absurdist comedy about the self-serving Hugo Pludek half a century ago. The play was first presented in 1963 at the Na...

Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro

Feb 5 – Jun 12, 2013

The classic French comedy has not aged at all. On his wedding day, the servant Figaro defends his beloved Susanna against the amorous advances of...

The Magic Flute

Oct 6 – Jun 11, 2013

Alongside the coronation opera La clemenza di Tito, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) is Mozart’s final stage work. In it, the composer returned to the...

Mikveh

Feb 14 – May 23, 2013

In this play by the contemporary Israeli playwright Hadar Galron, the mikveh – the ritual bath in which religious Jewish women go to purify themselves...

Orfeo ed Euridice

Feb 2 – May 16, 2013

Christoph Willibald Gluck, an acclaimed composer and influential reformer, whose youth and musical beginnings are linked with Bohemia and Prague, gained worldwide fame owing to...

Enron

Feb 26 – May 14, 2013

Enron – the word that became a symbol of a failure. It all became with Enron. A breakdown of this giant company in 2001 anticipated...

August: Osage County

Feb 17 – May 13, 2013

A play about happiness and unhappiness. The father suddenly disappears. The whole of the large family assembles in the house in which they were born:...

L’Olimpiade

May 2 – May 6, 2013

The mature musical works of Josef Myslive?ek (1737-1781) are rightly compared to the pieces his close friend and admirer W. A. Mozart wrote in his...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Apr 27

The singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), which marks the beginning of Mozart’s mature period, was commissioned by Emperor Joseph...

Richard III

Feb 6 – Apr 19, 2013

A cripple in politics – crippled politics. Afflicted by a lust for power, endowed with intellect, charm and capable of anything, Richard III is one...

Mozartissimo (BM Art Agency)

Feb 16 – Mar 31, 2013

Stabat Mater

Mar 22 – Mar 29, 2013

Orchestra and Chorus of the Czech National Opera...

Leonce and Lena

Mar 23 – Mar 24, 2013

The Seagull

Sep 29 – Feb 11, 2013

Treplyov, an ambitious young dramatist and writer, tries to capture the attention of his mother, the actress Arkadina, and win the love of Nina Zarechnaya....

Romeo and Juliet

Feb 10

The Makropulos Case

Oct 2 – Jan 20, 2013

The enigmatic femme fatale Emilia Marty turns the life of everyone she meets on its head. ?apek’s fantasy comedy with a mysterious, almost detective-story plot...

Dance and Song

Sep 30