12 November 2021, 7:30, St Kliment Church, Prague Days of Contemporary Music Jaromír Vogel: Duo Blani for violoncello and harp (world premiere) Jiří Hošek – violoncello, Pavla Vondráčková Jahodová – harp Věra Čermáková: The Story (selection no. 1) for shakuhachi (world premiere) Petr Matuszek – shakuhachi Ondřej Kukal: Duo „Rumba“ for two cellos (world premiere) … Read more
Three concerts took place during the fourth week of the Days of Contemporary Music festival. All of them were held at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with fifteen of the twenty pieces presented enjoying their world premiere. The program on November 21 consisted exclusively of chamber music. Pallets and Shading by Jiří Bezděk … Read more
J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen staged a new production of Jiří Teml’s opera Kocour v botách (Puss in Boots). This children’s opera, composed in 2008/9 to a libretto by Jan Tůma and Eliška Hrubá-Toperczerová, consists of 6 scenes and received its premiere in 2009 at the Smetana’s Litomyšl music festival by the Czech Philharmonic Children’s Choir. This year, on 20 February … Read more
