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Rusalka Antonin Dvorák Director Richard Jones' reading of Dvo?ak's best-known opera is rugged and human: the water-nymph Rusalka who aspires to become human learns about ...

Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is one of the fixed stars of the classical repertoire of ballet ensembles. Since its premiere in 1892 it has undergone ...

POE by Christina Lepri Directed by Tony Lawry Featuring: Ian Muentener-Gonzalez, Michel P. Dalberg, Ann-Claude Rakotoniaina, Emily Pazik, Austyn Williamson & Lena Valenti Synopsis: Welcome ...

After 80 years, one of the Weimar era’s most spectacular jazz operettas returns to the place of its origin: inaugurally performed in Berlin in 1932 ...

Mozart’s penultimate work is perhaps also his most puzzling one. Tamino’s escape and unconsciousness open up the first act. When he is awoken with the ...

Antonín Dvo?ák’s two most successful operas, The Devil and Kate, and Rusalka, are based on fairy-tale motifs. Blending folk and humorous with lyrical and fantasy ...

Pride and Prejudice is a theatrical version of Jane Austen’s classic novel involving manners, courtship and relationships. Finding a husband is hardly Elizabeth Bennet's most ...

Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is one of the fixed stars of the classical repertoire of ballet ensembles. Since its premiere in 1892 it has undergone ...

The company continues its commitment to German opera with the return of Richard Strauss’s glorious and great comic opera Der Rosenkavalier to the Music Hall ...

Rusalka Antonin Dvorák Director Richard Jones' reading of Dvo?ak's best-known opera is rugged and human: the water-nymph Rusalka who aspires to become human learns about ...

The most popular of the Czech classics will be adapted for the stage. First published in 1853, under the title A Bouquet of Czech Folk ...

Patricia Racette won plaudits when she first sang the title role at the Met in 2010. Now she returns with Roberto Alagna and Aleksandrs Antonenko ...

The most irresistible courtesan in opera - onstage at the Winspear for the very first time-in this lavish and lovely production from Florida Grand Opera! ...

A poetic production about the frail world we ourselves create, suitable for the whole family. The main role is assigned to paper, playfulness and children’s ...

For sixty years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a private weekly audience. The discussions are utterly secret, ...

Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever composed, Don Giovanni tells of the devious schemes and hijinks of history’s most beguiling scoundrel, Don Juan. Mozart’s ...

Much Ado About Nothing, a great game of gossip, love, infidelity, deception, a work teeming with irony and fierce verbal sparring, is one of Shakespeare’s ...

Love that falls victim to creative obsession and the tragic fate of a girl who, owing to her family’s poverty, becomes a prostitute are the ...

Bizet’s Carmen is a staple of the repertoire of the majority of opera houses worldwide. The opera is extremely popular owing to the music, abounding ...

A poetic production about the frail world we ourselves create, suitable for the whole family. The main role is assigned to paper, playfulness and children’s ...

The most famous love story of all time, the grand and timeless theme, is the subject of John Cranko’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, which we ...

The opera Katya Kabanova, based on A. N. Ostrovsky’s drama The Storm, deeply impresses every perceptive viewer due to its immense emotionality and Janáček’s extraordinary ...

The battle of the sexes rages on in Mozart’s most provocative comedy. As a philosopher engages a quartet of lovers in a subversive game that ...

“A ship with scarlet sails and black mast, and on the bridge a ghostly figure, the ship’s captain.” Thus is the Flying Dutchman described in ...

The Bard’s classic comedy, which returns to the stage with each generation; a fantastic show of motifs, plots, mysteries and secrets, which true theatre-goers must ...

Two different faces of modern European opera, and two different music and theatre universes will be presented at the State Opera within a single evening. ...

His novel Cosmos earned Witold Gombrowicz a nomination for the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. A prime example of the author’s mastery, the book can ...

Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia is one of the most acclaimed comic operas of all time. It is extremely popular owing to catchy melodies, as ...

Marysha kills Vávra with a poison poured into his coffee. Few among the audience do not know how the story of a girl married against ...

Can the world exist without action? The most demanding, impossible to perform, complex – in two parts to boot......

Four young Montmartre artists live through love affairs and breakups. Rain-or-shine friends, perennially skint yet happy, live life to the full. Until, that is, death ...

A poetic production about the frail world we ourselves create, suitable for the whole family. The main role is assigned to paper, playfulness and children’s ...

Mozart’s illustrious operatic oeuvre is rounded off by a work providing both copious entertainment and food for thought, affording a fantastic spectacle and presenting a ...

The ambitious project of the SKUTR tandem of stage directors focuses on the story of the world-renowned photographer Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneer in photography and ...

Our new adaptation of Rigoletto was staged for the State Opera by the young Czech director Barbora Horáková Joly, the holder of the UK’s International ...

In times of doubt and confusion, it symbolises strength, transformation and renewal. For only from the ashes of who we were can we rise up ...

Water, fire, blood, an arrow, a dagger ... Passion, disillusion, revenge, forgiveness ... One of the world’s loveliest operas in a profound and meditative production ...

The mixed bill comprises works of three contemporary dance innovators, ranking among the most globally renowned, extremely gifted choreographers of the present time, all of ...

If we were to name the works that connect Prague with the global music and theatre, the top position among them would undoubtedly be occupied ...

The lambent, funny and forcible novel affords the opportunity to dazzle to both the male and female members of the National Theatre Drama company, while ...

Jenůfa is one of the most overwhelming of Janáček’s operas, acclaimed all over the world. The heroine, a village girl gradually loses everything – her ...

The singular story of love, both devoted and inconstant, a story abounding in tense twists and the engrossing world of knights, was brought to the ...

The play presents a fairy tale of a kingdom whose people must murder one another before attaining well-being....

It is inspired by Karel Čapek’s sci-fi drama R.U.R., premiered a century ago. The legacy of the great writer and humanist is brought to life ...

A historical episode in 1918 served as the subject for a play that a decade later became a hit at the National Theatre. The tale ...

King Oedipus could be envied by many for his good fortune – after defeating the Sphinx by solving her riddle, he became a respected ruler ...

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

The most popular of the Czech classics will be adapted for the stage. First published in 1853, under the title A Bouquet of Czech Folk ...

The ballet evening KYLIÁN – Bridges of Time is dedicated to the work of Jiří Kylián, a renowned choreographer born in the Czech Republic who ...

What cannot be formulated in sayable propositions can only be shown – that is how we may paraphrase one of the statements of the philosopher ...

Marysha kills Vávra with a poison poured into his coffee. Few among the audience do not know how the story of a girl married against ...

The most irresistible courtesan in opera - onstage at the Winspear for the very first time-in this lavish and lovely production from Florida Grand Opera! ...

Musique de Gioachino RossiniNico and the NavigatorsThéâtre musicalEn anglais & allemand, avec surtitres en français[FR] Du Rossini à la Rossini, tel est le résultat de ...

Rusalka Antonin Dvorák Director Richard Jones' reading of Dvo?ak's best-known opera is rugged and human: the water-nymph Rusalka who aspires to become human learns about ...

POE by Christina Lepri Directed by Tony Lawry Featuring: Ian Muentener-Gonzalez, Michel P. Dalberg, Ann-Claude Rakotoniaina, Emily Pazik, Austyn Williamson & Lena Valenti Synopsis: Welcome ...

BPM refers to beats per minute, a measurement of tempo in music, the speed or pace of a given piece. It may also mean heart ...

Bizet’s Carmen is a staple of the repertoire of the majority of opera houses worldwide. The opera is extremely popular owing to the music, abounding ...

The most popular of the Czech classics will be adapted for the stage. First published in 1853, under the title A Bouquet of Czech Folk ...

A historical episode in 1918 served as the subject for a play that a decade later became a hit at the National Theatre. The tale ...

Along with Tartuffe and The Miser, The Misanthrope is the fundamental comedic archetype by which the global drama has been enriched by the genius of ...

“The wonderful romance bewitched me when I was 15 years of age, and its imperceptible heroine would then visit my dreams,” so wrote Vítězslav Nezval ...

The theatre adaptation of the third novel by Jáchym Topol (b. 1962), Nightwork, evokes the gloomy atmosphere in a Czech border village at the time ...

Marysha is one of the most famous Czech theatrical plays, a true gem of the Naturalist drama. The iconic quotes about coffee, in the play ...

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 ...

Hermia is to marry Demetrius, yet she loves Lysander. The two lovers plan to elope, but they reveal their intention to Helena, who feels affection ...

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 ...

One of the most influential Czech theatre-makers, the playwright, dramaturge, stage director, critic and essayist Karel Hugo Hilar (1885–1935), born Karel Bakule, joined the National ...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Thus reads ...

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 ...

The Italian writer, dramatist, director and actor Ascanio Celestini (b. 1972) has been ranked among the followers of the trend represented by the famous versatile ...

Can the world exist without action? The most demanding, impossible to perform, complex – in two parts to boot ... A play as the uppermost ...

Helene, a traditional Jewish woman, is the mother of three children – a lesbian, a transsexual and a leather fetishist. Charles and his assistant Shane ...

“You know what? Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the desire to come to a halt, to bring everything to a stop, to put on the ...

A contemporary play treating contemporary topics, yet featuring Ancient Greek figures. The British political drama on the devastated city of Thebes, with its president, Eurydice, ...

Marysha kills Vávra with a poison poured into his coffee. Few among the audience do not know how the story of a girl married against ...

Hermia is to marry Demetrius, yet she loves Lysander. The two lovers plan to elope, but they reveal their intention to Helena, who feels affection ...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Thus reads ...

The “white” variant of jazz, but above all dance, entertainment and hope – that’s swing. The production gives an account of the clash between the ...

The Czech classic dramatist’s most celebrated play is a tall story for both adults and children. The winsome fairy tale blends real, typically Czech characters ...

The “white” variant of jazz, but above all dance, entertainment and hope – that’s swing. The production gives an account of the clash between the ...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Thus reads ...

The story of Carmen, a passionate Gipsy whose love can never be won for good and whose flighty life ends at the hand of a ...

State Opera Orchestra and Chorus Kühn's children choir, choirmaster: Ji?í Chvála The renowned French director Arnaud Bernard has been invited to stage the new production ...

To inaugurate the Suez Canal, Ismail Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, commissioned an opera from the composer whose Rigoletto opened the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo ...

“Butterfly” is indisputably one of the most popular and most artistically valued operas of all time. Notwithstanding the fact that it has perhaps the simplest ...

The operatic story loosely based on Dumas’s novel La Dame aux Camélias about the sick courtesan Violetta and her vain desire to extricate herself from ...

Antonín Dvo?ák’s two most successful operas, The Devil and Kate, and Rusalka, are based on fairy-tale motifs. Blending folk and humorous with lyrical and fantasy ...

Dvo?ák’s Rusalka is a true gem of Czech opera, one that has won over audiences worldwide. The composer’s ardent melodies, both tender and dramatically extreme, ...

Bed?ich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, the founding work of modern Czech opera, soon exceeded the domestic framework and became a permanent part of the world’s ...

Dvo?ák’s The Jacobin is one of the most popular and most frequently performed Czech operas. To date, the National Theatre has staged twelve productions, most ...

Hermia is to marry Demetrius, yet she loves Lysander. The two lovers plan to elope, but they reveal their intention to Helena, who feels affection ...

A number of globally-renowned composers have been connected with the history of Prague, either through directly living and working here or paying visits to the ...

“The wonderful romance bewitched me when I was 15 years of age, and its imperceptible heroine would then visit my dreams,” so wrote Vít?zslav Nezval ...

A gem of Italian verismo opera, Giordano’s Andrea Chénier was presented at the National Theatre in Prague in 1897, a mere year after its world ...

This piece of dance theatre with the subheading “Solo for Three” is a ravishing performance inspired by the lives and songs of three singer-poets of ...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Thus reads ...

Every choreographer has a so-called signature piece – the one work that particularly stands out in an artist’s oeuvre and which is the basis of ...

Rampant ambition, inordinate lust for power and mysterious oracles – these are the ingredients of the psychological opera thriller and the first of the three ...

Libuše is not only a supreme festival opera; it also represents a significant symbol of Czech national culture. Although Bed?ich Smetana completed it in 1872, ...

Swan Lake ranks among the most famous classical ballet titles and forms part of the repertoire of all major theatres worldwide. The German fairy tale ...

The two one-act operas by Carl Orff (1895–1982), globally known for his cantata Carmina Burana, retell in the form of entertainment and epic folk theatre ...

The Czech repertoire of the National Theatre in the 2016/17 season will be extended to include a remarkable experimental creation by Václav Kašlík (1917–1989), one ...

Bohuslav Martin?’s opera Juliette (The Key to Dreams) is closely linked to the National Theatre in Prague, which gave its premiere on 16 March 1938, ...

In the last decade of the 19th century, new themes taken over from contemporary realistic literature began appearing in Italian opera. Emil Zola’s literary Naturalism, ...

The grand Romantic ballet set in India, featuring spectacular sets and virtuoso performances. The Czech National Ballet is preparing the premiere of a new version ...

The evil Queen casts a spell on the little boy Kai by means of a shard from the magic mirror and imprisons him in her ...

Igor Stravinsky’s first and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s final opera hail from two totally different musical worlds – Iolanta is still borne in the spirit of ...

By calling his Faust fresco a “légende dramatique”, Hector Berlioz, one of the pivotal figures of 19th-century Romantic programme music, perplexed his contemporaries, as well ...

After an interval of more than a decade, the National Theatre will again include in its repertoire Janá?ek’s celebrated “philosophical revue“ on animals and people, ...

Leoš Janá?ek’s final opera, was inspired by Dostoyevsky’s novel The House of the Dead, reflecting the author’s own experience as a political prisoner in a ...

After 10 years of performing the stage director and choreographer Youri Vàmos’s singular and extremely successful version, we are preparing a brand-new production, created by ...

The “white” variant of jazz, but above all dance, entertainment and hope – that’s swing. The production gives an account of the clash between the ...

The Servant of Two Masters is a ripe fruit of commedie dell'arte, possessing traditional characters and situations. It takes place within a narrow family framework, ...

Programm: Ji?í Teml: Splnilo se Písmo svaté, Christmas Songs and Carols for children's chorus, chamber orchestra and organ...

The Czech classic dramatist’s most celebrated play is a tall story for both adults and children. The winsome fairy tale blends real, typically Czech characters ...

Krabat – a dance performance for which its creators have revived the theme of an old Wendish legend dating from the turn of the 17th ...

The child roles are sung by Czech Philharmonic Children´s Choir members Kühn Children Choir National Theatre Orchestra Members Students of the Prague municipal secondary school ...

Bed?ich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, the founding work of modern Czech opera, soon exceeded the domestic framework and became a permanent part of the world’s ...

The operatic story loosely based on Dumas’s novel La Dame aux Camélias about the sick courtesan Violetta and her vain desire to extricate herself from ...

Hermia is to marry Demetrius, yet she loves Lysander. The two lovers plan to elope, but they reveal their intention to Helena, who feels affection ...

When the British writer and naturalist Gerald Durrell’s book The Talking Parcel was published in 1974, he unveiled to his readers Mythologia, a wondrous realm ...

“The wonderful romance bewitched me when I was 15 years of age, and its imperceptible heroine would then visit my dreams,” so wrote Vít?zslav Nezval ...

After an interval of more than a decade, the National Theatre will again include in its repertoire Janá?ek’s celebrated “philosophical revue“ on animals and people, ...

The famous allegorical morality play of the ?apek brothers, key figures of Czech interwar culture, needs no introduction. Precious few do not know at least ...

A gem of Italian verismo opera, Giordano’s Andrea Chénier was presented at the National Theatre in Prague in 1897, a mere year after its world ...

The story of Carmen, a passionate Gipsy whose love can never be won for good and whose flighty life ends at the hand of a ...

Antonín Dvo?ák’s two most successful operas, The Devil and Kate, and Rusalka, are based on fairy-tale motifs. Blending folk and humorous with lyrical and fantasy ...

Leoš Janá?ek’s final opera, was inspired by Dostoyevsky’s novel The House of the Dead, reflecting the author’s own experience as a political prisoner in a ...

Libuše is not only a supreme festival opera; it also represents a significant symbol of Czech national culture. Although Bed?ich Smetana completed it in 1872, ...

Bohuslav Martin?’s opera Juliette (The Key to Dreams) is closely linked to the National Theatre in Prague, which gave its premiere on 16 March 1938, ...

Igor Stravinsky’s first and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s final opera hail from two totally different musical worlds – Iolanta is still borne in the spirit of ...

The Czech National Ballet has joined the celebrations of the Year of Czech Music and on 17 April 2014 will give at the National Theatre ...

Dvo?ák’s The Jacobin is one of the most popular and most frequently performed Czech operas. To date, the National Theatre has staged twelve productions, most ...

The Czech classic dramatist’s most celebrated play is a tall story for both adults and children. The winsome fairy tale blends real, typically Czech characters ...

Janá?ek’s world-famous drama presents human relationships formed by the harsh environment of a self–contained rural community where one lives constantly under the watch of others. ...

Even though one of the most celebrated historical operas of all time bears the name of a prominent Russian Tsar, Boris Godunov is not the ...

The “white” variant of jazz, but above all dance, entertainment and hope – that’s swing. The production gives an account of the clash between the ...

Dana Burešová, Michaela Kapustová, Josef Moravec, Ji?í Hájek and Oleg Korotkov sing songs by Richard Strauss, Jaroslav K?i?ka, Ottorino Respighi, Maurice Ravel, and M. P. ...

This piece of dance theatre with the subheading “Solo for Three” is a ravishing performance inspired by the lives and songs of three singer-poets of ...

The Servant of Two Masters is a ripe fruit of commedie dell'arte, possessing traditional characters and situations. It takes place within a narrow family framework, ...

Krabat – a dance performance for which its creators have revived the theme of an old Wendish legend dating from the turn of the 17th ...

In 1887 the National Theatre’s first dramaturge wrote this, the first Czech realist play. Critics of the time found it too different, too unusual. They ...

After 10 years of performing the stage director and choreographer Youri Vàmos’s singular and extremely successful version, we are preparing a brand-new production, created by ...

Programm: Ji?í Teml: Splnilo se Písmo svaté, Christmas Songs and Carols for children's chorus, chamber orchestra and organ...

With laureates of the competiton René Pape, Adam Plachetka, Roman Janál, Kate?ina Kn?žíková, Joo-Anne Bitter, Nicholas Davis and others....

Dvo?ák’s The Jacobin is one of the most popular and most frequently performed Czech operas. To date, the National Theatre has staged twelve productions, most ...

The operatic story loosely based on Dumas’s novel La Dame aux Camélias about the sick courtesan Violetta and her vain desire to extricate herself from ...

The Czech National Ballet has joined the celebrations of the Year of Czech Music and on 17 April 2014 will give at the National Theatre ...

After a long interval, the National Theatre repertoire will again be enriched by a work of the oldest of the titans of Czech opera, Bed?ich ...

This piece of dance theatre with the subheading “Solo for Three” is a ravishing performance inspired by the lives and songs of three singer-poets of ...

Bed?ich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, the founding work of modern Czech opera, soon exceeded the domestic framework and became a permanent part of the world’s ...

Antonín Dvo?ák’s two most successful operas, The Devil and Kate, and Rusalka, are based on fairy-tale motifs. Blending folk and humorous with lyrical and fantasy ...

Leoš Janá?ek’s final opera, was inspired by Dostoyevsky’s novel The House of the Dead, reflecting the author’s own experience as a political prisoner in a ...

A grandiose Russian operatic epic following the rise and fall of Tsar Boris Godunov and his reign of terror against the boyars and the common ...

The story of Carmen, a passionate Gipsy whose love can never be won for good and whose flighty life ends at the hand of a ...

The famous allegorical morality play of the ?apek brothers, key figures of Czech interwar culture, needs no introduction. Precious few do not know at least ...

In 1887 the National Theatre’s first dramaturge wrote this, the first Czech realist play. Critics of the time found it too different, too unusual. They ...

Krabat – a dance performance for which its creators have revived the theme of an old Wendish legend dating from the turn of the 17th ...

Libuše is not only a supreme festival opera; it also represents a significant symbol of Czech national culture. Although Bed?ich Smetana completed it in 1872, ...

Dvo?ák’s Rusalka is a true gem of Czech opera, one that has won over audiences worldwide. The composer’s ardent melodies, both tender and dramatically extreme, ...

Dvo?ák’s Rusalka is a true gem of Czech opera, one that has won over audiences worldwide. The composer’s ardent melodies, both tender and dramatically extreme, ...

Swan Lake ranks among the most famous classical ballet titles and forms part of the repertoire of all major theatres worldwide. The German fairy tale ...

Janá?ek’s world-famous drama presents human relationships formed by the harsh environment of a self–contained rural community where one lives constantly under the watch of others. ...

The Czech classic dramatist’s most celebrated play is a tall story for both adults and children. The winsome fairy tale blends real, typically Czech characters ...

After an interval of more than a decade, the National Theatre will again include in its repertoire Janá?ek’s celebrated “philosophical revue“ on animals and people, ...

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is one of the most popular Donizetti operas and comic operas there is. The librettist Felice Romani made use ...

Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is one of the fixed stars of the classical repertoire of ballet ensembles. Since its premiere in 1892 it has undergone ...

Programm: Ji?í Teml: Splnilo se Písmo svaté, Christmas Songs and Carols for children's chorus, chamber orchestra and organ...

Orchestra and Chorus of the National Theatre Premiere: October 25 and 26, 2013 Giuseppe Verdi composed the first version of the opera to commission for ...

The Servant of Two Masters is a ripe fruit of commedie dell'arte, possessing traditional characters and situations. It takes place within a narrow family framework, ...

Staging of the celebrated work Cinderella proves how multifarious the choreographic plan of the National Theatre Ballet is. On this occasion it will be the ...

Zeyer’s dramatic poem is one of the most beautiful love stories to have graced a Czech stage. Classical fairy-tale motifs wed with mythological references joined ...

The second edition of Czech Ballet Symphony will mark Czech Music Year and link up to the title premiered in 2007. The mixed bill will ...

When the British writer and naturalist Gerald Durrell’s book The Talking Parcel was published in 1974, he unveiled to his readers Mythologia, a wondrous realm ...

The famous allegorical morality play of the ?apek brothers, key figures of Czech interwar culture, needs no introduction. Precious few do not know at least ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s paramount opera about the Egyptian chieftain Rhadames, his love for the slave Aida and the jealousy of Princess Amneris is presented at the ...

Swan Lake ranks among the most famous classical ballet titles and forms part of the repertoire of all major theatres worldwide. The German fairy tale ...

Bed?ich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, the founding work of modern Czech opera, soon exceeded the domestic framework and became a permanent part of the world’s ...

This piece of dance theatre with the subheading “Solo for Three” is a ravishing performance inspired by the lives and songs of three singer-poets of ...

After an interval of more than a decade, the National Theatre will again include in its repertoire Janá?ek’s celebrated “philosophical revue“ on animals and people, ...

After a long interval, the National Theatre repertoire will again be enriched by a work of the oldest of the titans of Czech opera, Bed?ich ...

Dvo?ák’s Rusalka is a true gem of Czech opera, one that has won over audiences worldwide. The composer’s ardent melodies, both tender and dramatically extreme, ...

Janá?ek’s world-famous drama presents human relationships formed by the harsh environment of a self–contained rural community where one lives constantly under the watch of others. ...

Dvo?ák’s The Jacobin is one of the most popular and most frequently performed Czech operas. To date, the National Theatre has staged twelve productions, most ...

Krabat – a dance performance for which its creators have revived the theme of an old Wendish legend dating from the turn of the 17th ...

The Czech classic dramatist’s most celebrated play is a tall story for both adults and children. The winsome fairy tale blends real, typically Czech characters ...

Libuše is not only a supreme festival opera; it also represents a significant symbol of Czech national culture. Although Bed?ich Smetana completed it in 1872, ...

The story of Carmen, a passionate Gipsy whose love can never be won for good and whose flighty life ends at the hand of a ...

Antonín Dvo?ák’s two most successful operas, The Devil and Kate, and Rusalka, are based on fairy-tale motifs. Blending folk and humorous with lyrical and fantasy ...

Staging of the celebrated work Cinderella proves how multifarious the choreographic plan of the National Theatre Ballet is. On this occasion it will be the ...

Orchestra and Chorus of the Czech National Opera...

Giuseppe Verdi composed the first version of the opera to commission for Venice’s Teatro La Fenice. The author of the libretto was Francesco Maria Piave, ...

Shakespeare’s tragicomedy depicts a world in which all human virtues, values and feelings are falling apart, and the sense of human existence has transformed into ...

The Servant of Two Masters is a ripe fruit of commedie dell'arte, possessing traditional characters and situations. It takes place within a narrow family framework, ...

“If life were just love and if love were true, I would love you till my dying day...” So told Elizabeth I, the central character ...

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is one of the most popular Donizetti operas and comic operas there is. The librettist Felice Romani made use ...

Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is one of the fixed stars of the classical repertoire of ballet ensembles. Since its premiere in 1892 it has undergone ...

Programm: Ji?í Teml: Splnilo se Písmo svaté, Christmas Songs and Carols for children's chorus, chamber orchestra and organ...

Zeyer’s dramatic poem is one of the most beautiful love stories to have graced a Czech stage. Classical fairy-tale motifs wed with mythological references joined ...

It is high time that Katherina, a young woman from a good family, got married. Yet no one wants her, since she is disorderly, bad-tempered, ...

Rostand’s classical drama is a manifesto of manliness, honour, friendship and love, values that are necessary always and to everyone. Also manifest is our espousing ...

In 1887 the National Theatre’s first dramaturge wrote this, the first Czech realist play. Critics of the time found it too different, too unusual. They ...

Staging of the celebrated work Cinderella proves how multifarious the choreographic plan of the National Theatre Ballet is. On this occasion it will be the ...

The encounter between Claude Debussy’s music and the text of the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck is a prime example of the perfect integration of word ...

The operatic story loosely based on Dumas’s novel La Dame aux Camélias about the sick courtesan Violetta and her vain desire to extricate herself from ...

The Servant of Two Masters is a ripe fruit of commedie dell'arte, possessing traditional characters and situations. It takes place within a narrow family framework, ...

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is one of the most popular Donizetti operas and comic operas there is. The librettist Felice Romani made use ...

Shakespeare??? Shakespeare!!! The tragedy of a king who is not able to recognise true love. King Lear, a wise and revered man descending into madness. ...

Zeyer’s dramatic poem is one of the most beautiful love stories to have graced a Czech stage. Classical fairy-tale motifs wed with mythological references joined ...