Anniversaries seem to be cornerstones of concert programming these days and there is a plentiful supply of composers’ birth and death days to keep concert managers busy during 2009. This year sees ...
Over the centuries, the region historically known as Bohemia has had many names, and been part of many nations and empires: the Premysl Empire, the Hapsburg Monarchy, the Luxembourg Dynasty and the ...
Check out the LSU Opera’s all-Czech show this weekend. The pun is definitely intended, because not only will two casts be presenting Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu’s two-one act operas, they’ll be ...
Our writer reveals his passion for a great, unsung Czech composer whose finest opera has a rare performance in London next week... I was halfway down the vertiginous bell tower where Bohuslav Martinu ...
It's as well that Sir Charles Mackerras likes anniversaries: over the course of a long career, he's experienced a lot of them. As he prepares to conduct Martinu's The Greek Passion at the Royal Opera ...
Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu wrote a slapstick one-act opera in 1937 called Comedy on the Bridge. It was a satire on war, and everybody had a good time when they heard the Prague radio premiere ...
Anniversaries seem to be cornerstones of concert programming these days and there is a plentiful supply of composers’ birth and death days to keep concert managers busy during 2009. This year sees ...
In the opera's final drama, Sister Paskalina (soprano Pavla Vykopalava) prays to the Virgin Mary for strength to resist a demon, who promises a life of love and pleasure. But the temptation proves too ...
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