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B. Britten's famous opera, which became a major theatrical event in its production by the National Theater Brno... The story of the opera Peter Grimes is as harsh and stormy as the landscape in which it takes place. A boy dies in a fishing village on the North Sea coast. Fisherman Peter Grimes is suspected of his murder. Although he is acquitted by the court, the locals have their own opinion and make it known. Social outcasts and the sea are the thematic pillars of this tragic opera, in which the staunch pacifist and humanist Benjamin Britten sides with all those who deviate from the norms of mainstream society. Although Benjamin Britten's work forms a fundamental part of contemporary opera production and he is the most frequently staged composer of the 20th century worldwide, in the Czech Republic we rarely have the opportunity to encounter his work. His most famous opera, Peter Grimes, from 1945, had its Czechoslovak premiere two years later at the National Theater in Brno.

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The unique space of Diana's Temple in the Lednice-Valtice area comes alive with a concert by the Talich Quartet thanks to the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival program. The recording of this exceptional musical program was made in 2022 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of this renowned string quartet, whose composition has changed many times, but whose name in honor of the important Czech conductor has remained. The concert for the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival will feature Jan Talich, Roman Patočka, Radim Sedmidubský, and Petr Prause. The concert utilizes and further develops the genius loci of Diana's Temple, a romantic structure paraphrasing Roman triumphal arches, also known as Rendez-vous.

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An untraditional documentary portrait reveals the complicated personality of the Slovak music legend Jožo Ráž, the singer for the pop-rock group Elán. From recordings of everyday situations, playful moments, intimate conversations about God and death, and memories of the past, the director composes a complex image of a man loved by the masses, who, despite all his life successes, feels lonely.

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Singer and actress Monika Načeva presents a musical project called Zdivočelí koně (Wild Horses), which takes you on a journey into the arid steppes of the past in her own unique way. Monika, accompanied by drummer Markéta Pták from the band LO/VE and keyboardist David Kabzan from Rány těla, has set out to set the poems of banned artists from the 1960s to 1980s (Pavel Zajíček, Ivan Martin Jirous, Vladimíra Čerepková, Václav Hrabě, and others) to music.

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A leading Czech chamber ensemble performs compositions by H. Krása, E. Schulhoff, and A. Dvořák on the occasion of a memorial event commemorating the deportation of Jews from Prague's Holešovice railway station, Praha Bubny, during World War II... The Memorial of Silence is a project that has been in development for several years at the Praha Bubny railway station. This place of remembrance, which witnessed the deportation of nearly 50,000 Prague citizens of Jewish origin, is thus awakening to new significance. In addition to developing a project to convert the railway station into a place of remembrance, an educational and communication center, the Memorial of Silence team has been preparing dozens of seasonal events for several years. Their aim is to find a language for public communication for a modern memorial that seeks to commemorate war stories and events without false pathos.

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When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is sometimes only skin-deep. Janáček took Gabriela Preissová's grim tale of infanticide and redemption, and condensed it into a masterful, spine-chilling drama. The tragic plight of the protagonists is presented with unsentimental realism that cannot help but trigger a response of deep compassion. Premiered at the National Theatre in the composer's hometown of Brno 115 years ago, the opera took him nine years to complete and is the first in which his distinctive voice can clearly be heard.

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The cast of a popular kid's show based on offering answers must figure out why young viewers mysteriously no longer have anything to ask them.

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A theatrical adaptation of Jiří Křižan's screenplay performed by the Mahen Theater in Brno, which premiered on October 9, 2015. A drama set in the summer of 1943 in the Moravian village of Lakotice, where farmer Baran flees from the Gestapo. The village is gripped by fear of the local informer Sekal, who has already denounced two farm owners and received their property in return, while they were sent to concentration camps and killed. The bastard is now the biggest farmer in the village and makes it clear that two farms are not enough for him...

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A sensitive portrait of grandfather Miroslav Benda, a tried and true Sokol member and an ordinary man with extraordinary vigor and ideals, revealing a story of human resilience and optimism through nostalgia and situational comedy. The film is a kind of observational documentary - it includes family videos and archival film material. We’re drawn into the microcosm of the village of Křenovice u Slavkova by two Japanese women who have decided to visit Benda, thanks to his long friendship with a university professor from Tokyo. Together with Benda, the audience travels to the only Japanese gas station in Europe, to Prague’s Strahov Stadium, and to New York to visit American Sokol members.

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Three old friends - the Musician, the Thief and the Circus Man, former cellmates from a Bolshevik prison, live together in a house on the Czech-German border after being widowed. They are brought here by the need to deal with someone who has wronged them in the past. But that person, a former Aesteban, is the current innkeeper, so the men have nowhere to go for a draft beer...

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The thrilling atmosphere of a concert by legendary jazz trumpeter Laco Déczi. Since entering the professional music scene more than fifty years ago, he has become a living legend who established the style of modern jazz. Laco Déczi's concert exudes his energy, personality, and sense of humor, which is why he is rightly considered one of the greatest figures of Czechoslovak jazz. We bring you a recording of the legendary jazz trumpeter's concert from the Sono Center in Brno.

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Documentary about western popular music concerts as bearer tendencies of democracy and freedom in the Czechoslovak area in period 1965 - 1990. Unique and comprehensive view of the cultural and political significance visits of western popular and alternative culture personalities who were brought democratic idea to the former socialist Czechoslovakia.

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A festive event marking the 10th anniversary of the Czech Republic's accession to the European Union, during which the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a live broadcast of L. van Beethoven's popular Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, with Ode to Joy.

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Singer and musician Petr Ulrych celebrated his 70th birthday in February this year, his sister Hana celebrated her 65th birthday a month later, and together they have been playing and singing for an incredible fifty years. Add to that forty years since the birth of their band Javory and the fifth anniversary of the younger Javory Beat, and there is reason to celebrate several significant anniversaries of a unique musical legend! The Ulrych siblings will commemorate all these anniversaries with a concert by Javory and Javory Beat at the Mahen Theater in Brno, which will be broadcast by Czech Television.

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Renowned Czech drummers gathered on one stage at the Fléda club in Brno, where they did not hesitate to play up to two tons of various percussion instruments in musical styles from around the world. This time, the core of the Drummers' Gathering consisted of players of classical Western percussion instruments Pavel Fajt, Pavel Koudelka, and Marcel Gabriel, supported by Miloš Vacík's Latin American rhythms. Tomáš Reindl played Arabic drums and Indian tabla. Guitarist Zdeněk Bína, who has been performing solo since the breakup of the band -123minut, is already a traditional guest at this exceptional musical event. Other guests were also an integral part of this ambitious project, including singer and rapper Ondřej Anděra and singer and keyboardist Oona Kastner.

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Zuzana Lapčíková's Christmas jazz project. The Advent and Christmas songs of singer and cimbalom player Zuzana Lapčíková are based on ancient hymnals and orally transmitted melodies. Together with her quintet, however, she transforms them into contemporary, jazz-influenced music that oscillates between genres. On one day during the pre-Christmas period, musicians gathered in the Gothic church of St. Catherine in Šebrov to perform a musical mass for the locals. In an intimate chamber atmosphere, full of silence and humility before the Creator, Zuzana Lapčíková's original project "Panna Marija přečistá" (The Blessed Virgin Mary) resounds.

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When the Hradišťan ensemble created the program O slunovratu (About the Solstice) in the music and dance world years ago, it was clear after the premiere that it would be a hit with listeners and viewers. This fictional journey through the year, with its feelings and moods rooted in local folklore, is easy to understand thanks to the Moravian folk lyrics and poems of Jan Skácel and the music of the experienced Jiří Pavlica. For the television visual form, authors Petr Hajn, Petr Vejslík, and Milan Popelka chose an hour-long mosaic of images for each song, combining visualization with a music video approach. The program was filmed over almost two years in various locations in Moravia and in all seasons. Viewers will also find hits such as Modlitba za vodu (Prayer for Water), Masopust (Carnival), Dušičkové rozjímání (All Souls' Day Contemplation) and Sonet o lásce a modrém portugalu (Sonnet about Love and Blue Portugal).

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