THE ESTATES THEATRE

Woman as object, woman as subject, woman as woman. The production is the fruit of the collaboration between the National Theatre Drama company and the ...

A work by the Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca (1898–1936) is returning to the National Theatre in Prague some half a century after ...

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

The acclaimed film adaptation by Juraj Herz of the novel by Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994) only treats part of the literary work. The story of Karel ...

“We have no Molièresque humour, with the exception of a few of Klicpera’s comedies,” said the distinguished Czech theatre director and theoretician Jind?ich Honzl, thus ...

A bitter comedy from the part of Great Britain that is so dangerously similar to our home … Or otherwise: there was once a father, ...

Her Majesty Elizabeth II is the lead character of Peter Morgan’s play, centred on her weekly audiences given to Prime Ministers. It is in a ...

The Blue Bird as the desire for ephemeral, ungraspable happiness. An adventurous voyage towards the soul of the things and beings around us, the seeking ...

Far away, at the very bottom of the ocean, which no anchor can reach and no human eye can see, is the home of marine ...

Three sisters. Olga, Masha and Irina. The eldest is a teacher at a high school; the middle sister is unhappily married to the teacher Kulygin; ...

The acclaimed film adaptation by Juraj Herz of the novel by Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994) only treats part of the literary work. The story of Karel ...

The Blue Bird as the desire for ephemeral, ungraspable happiness. An adventurous voyage towards the soul of the things and beings around us, the seeking ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Orchestra and Chorus of the Czech National Opera...

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. ...

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 ...