Culture
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Working at NY’s Met “special”, says Czech conductor of Rusalka Jiří Bělohlávek
Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka, the story of a water nymph who falls in love with a human prince, has just been performed for the last time this season at the Metropolitan Opera…
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Prizes and surprises - Magnesia Litera 2009
In less than three weeks time the results of the biggest literature prize in the Czech Republic, the Magnesia Litera, will be announced and excitement has been rising…
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Pavel Šporcl - Not your everyday violin virtuoso
In the Czech Republic and increasingly even abroad, violinist Pavel Šporcl enjoys the kind of name recognition that aspiring rock stars dream of. A natural talent, he…
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Hard Rock Café to open at Dům U Rotta in April
Dům u Rotta is one of the most famous buildings by Prague’s Old Town Square, with a facade dating back to 1890 but foundations going back six hundred years. For a century…
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Tereza Kopáčová on documentary filmmaking and the series Private Traps
TV dramas in the Czech Republic often aren’t bad, but occasionally something comes along which is a head above the rest. Last autumn, it was a dramatic series on…
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Kitsch wins through: pop music in Czechoslovakia after 1968
The 1960s had seen a thriving musical scene in Czechoslovakia, which had been broadly tolerated by the regime, especially during the 1968 Prague Spring. With the political…
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Prague House in Brussels
A Tuesday night in Brussels and a crowd of well-dressed concertgoers await a recital of Dvořák and Martinů. The concert, staged in the city’s splendid Theatre du…
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Czech Grand Design awards honour designer Jan Čtvrtník
Excellence in Czech design was honoured at the weekend at the annual Czech Grand Design awards. The Academy of Design of the Czech Republic, which consists of theorists…
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Czech EU presidency attracts new audiences to Brussels Czech Center
More than 700 different cultural events have been planned to coincide with the Czech Republic’s EU presidency. While a lot of these concerts and exhibitions are taking…
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Už Jsme Doma
In Music Profile this week, we take a look at one of the mainstays of the Czech alternative music scene, Už Jsme Doma, who are still at the top of their game after almost…
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Rigid Japanese culture like “communism pretending to be capitalism”, says documentary maker Sean…
One of the biggest hits with audiences at the One World film festival, which came to a close in Prague on Thursday night, was Japan: A Story of Love and Hate. It is a…
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Prague’s Vernon Gallery surprises passers-by with conceptual art
Contemporary Czech art made international headlines after the Czech presidency of the European Union unveiled the famous Entropa artefact by David Černý in Brussels in…
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