Culture
Prague Spring 2012
After a five-year pause, the top local orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, is again returning to perform the opening concerts of the Prague Spring Festival. The traditional opening composition, Smetana’s My Country, will be conducted by the current head of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, a thirty-six-year-old native of Saint Petersburg, Vasily Petrenko. The Czech Philharmonic will then appear again at another Festival concert, this time under the baton of a renowned German conductor, Ingo Metzmacher...
more info: http://www.prague-spring.net/articles/273-prague-spring-2012
National Gallery
Dukelských hrdinů 47, Praha 7
www.ngprague.cz
Culture links
You have a very wide choice of events in Prague, not all of them are worth to spend your holiday budget.
Here are some links, we are sure will help you to book - of course you can book through us, that's no problem, it is up to you, you can always contact us to ask, we can just say our opinion, in the end everyone has different taste and different needs...
- Prague Symphony Orchestra: www.fok.cz (We highly recommend concerts in Rudolfinum Hall or Obecní dům)
- National Theatre: www.narodni-divadlo.cz
- State Opera: www.opera.cz
- Black Light Theatre: www.imagetheatre.cz
- Marionette Theatre: www.mozart.cz
- Dance Theatre Ponec: www.divadloponec.cz (venue for contemporary dance and movement theatre)
- Svandovo Theatre: www.svandovodivadlo.cz
Švandovo Theatre in Smichov is the modern European culture centre of performing arts.
Its repertoire is constituted mainly by productions of established artistic troupe and also by other productions, which are dividing to the periodic programme cycles addicted to various genres and events of performing arts.
A beautiful space, that attracts a young, academic crowd.
All shows in Main Hall with English subtitles!
