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Review: ZLATO RÝNA předehrou tetralogie Prsten Nibelungův v Národním divadle
by Krystof Petrasek - February 19, 2026
Národní divadlo uvedlo v premiéře novou inscenaci opery Zlato Rýna z Wagnerovy tetralogie Prsten Nibelungův. Režie se ujala slovenská režisérka Sláva Daubnerová, která vytvořila vizuálně působivou moderní inscenaci této opery. Co mohou diváci očekávat?...
Review: DIDO A AENEAS ve Stavovském divadle
by Krystof Petrasek - January 21, 2026
První slavná anglická opera Dido a Aeneas se vrací na jeviště Národního divadla v Praze po téměř čtyřiceti letech, a to pouze pro šest uvedení. Diváka vezme na melancholickou pouť za osudy bájných hrdinů Vergiliova eposu Aeneis, jehož čtvrtá kniha vypráví příběh lásky m...
Review: KOUZELNÉ HODINKY DOKTORA KRONERA na Malé scéně plzeňského divadla
by Krystof Petrasek - January 12, 2026
V sobotu 10. ledna odehrál soubor muzikálu Divadla Josefa Kajetána Tyla v Plzni první muzikálovou premiéru sezóny. Kouzelné hodinky doktora Kronera Jana Kaňky a Tomáše Javorského uspěly v prvním ročníku soutěže autorských muzikálu v Plzni s názvem INTRO. Nyní se jejich muzi...
Post-apokalyptický zážitek v podobě plzeňského JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
by Krystof Petrasek - December 31, 2025
What did our critic think of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Divadlo J. K. Tyla?...
Past Shows
Nabucco
Oct 5 – Jun 30, 2013
Nabucco (1842), Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, was an immediate success. Yet it very nearly did not originate: the premiere of his second – comic –...
Aida
Jan 26 – Jun 28, 2013
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...
Die Zauberflöte
Mar 28 – Jun 26, 2013
The opera Don Carlos (titled Don Carlo in the revised Italian version) is the first mature work of Guiseppe Verdi (1813–1901), who wrote it at...
La bohème
Mar 2 – Jun 23, 2013
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,...
Die Zauberflöte
Feb 6 – Jun 22, 2013
Mozart wrote his final operatic work, to Emanuel Schikaneder’s libretto, in 1791, several months before his untimely death. The magical fairy-tale is replete with imagination,...
Turandot
Sep 30 – Jun 21, 2013
The Persian fairy-tale Turandot from the dervish Mokles’s 17th-century collection The One Thousand and One Nights has inspired numerous poets and composers. Giacomo Puccini worked...
Rusalka
Jan 25 – Jun 20, 2013
Antonín Dvo?ák based his most beautiful opera on the fairy tale The Little Mermaid by the famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Pursuant to the...
Tosca
Oct 6 – Jun 19, 2013
Giacomo Puccini had been intrigued by Victorien Sardou’s drama La Tosca ever since 1889, when in Milan he saw a performance featuring the celebrated actress...
Americana III
Apr 27 – Jun 16, 2013
For the third time in our history, we will be presenting a mixed bill made up of choreographies of American provenience. George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins...
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Feb 7 – Jun 12, 2013
Figaro, the most famous barber of all time, whose wit, as sharp as his razor, helps Count Almaviva to win his beloved Rosina. Love, guile...
Sleeping Beauty
Jan 24 – Jun 4, 2013
Sleeping Beauty is one of the cornerstones of the world ballet repertoire and in musical terms is considered the most perfect of all P. I....
Swan Lake
Oct 4 – May 29, 2013
The immortal love story of Prince Siegfried and the tender Princess Odette, who is turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer von Rothbart, is...
Persephone
May 23 – May 28, 2013
Ballet theatre attracted Igor Stravinsky throughout his life and he strove unceasingly to find new forms. The melodrama for narrator, solo tenor, chorus and dancers,...
Ballet Gala
May 14 – May 15, 2013
PROGRAMME: I. The Nutcracker (III act) II. Tchaikovsky Pas de deux III. Russkaya IV. Jewels (III part. Diamonds)...
Cavalleria rusticana, I pagliacci
Jan 31 – May 7, 2013
Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, a one-act opera set in the Sicilian countryside, is considered the founding work of Italian verismo, which introduced to the stage...
Otello
Feb 3 – Apr 16, 2013
A key role in the origination of Verdi’s penultimate opera, Otello, was played by the composer’s publisher Giulio Ricordi. After completing Aida in 1871, Verdi...
Giselle
Feb 12 – Apr 11, 2013
The famous Romantic ballet inspired by the German poet Heinrich Heine’s theme is built upon the contrast between the human and supernatural worlds. The story...
Il Trovatore
Jan 2 – Apr 10, 2013
The romantic story set in 15th-century Spain about the troubadour Manrico and the Gypsy Azucena, replete with heroism, machinations, love, hatred and revenge, is rather...
Die Fledermaus (Netopýr)
Jan 30 – Mar 16, 2013
Johann Strauss II was primarily known for his sublime waltzes, chiefly An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) and from 1871 for his operettas...
TRIBUTE, 25 years of stories in the Michal Horáek’s songs
Oct 2 – Oct 3, 2012
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