2015 Prague Spring to emphasise contemporary music

This year’s Prague Spring International Music Festival will place an emphasis on contemporary music, organisers say. Among the highlights of the 70th edition of the Czech Republic’s biggest classical music event will be the specially commissioned Lime Symphony by Petr Wajsar and four operas, including a new adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the Slovak composer Ľubica Čekovská. Hamburg’s North German Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform the traditional Smetana’s My Country at the festival curtain raiser at Prague’s Municipal House on May 12.

Author: Ian Willoughby