63rd Smetana’s Litomyšl festival gets underway

The 63rd edition of the Smetana’s Litomyšl classical music festival opened on Thursday night with a concert by the Czech Philharmonic in the courtyard of the castle in the town in the Vysočina Region.

The programme included the Overture in D major by Bedřich Smetana and Antonín Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor, in honour of the 180th anniversary of Dvořák's birth. The gala opening closed with Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C minor.