Janáček’s May festival starting in Ostrava

The Janáček’s May International Music Festival gets underway in Ostrava on Wednesday evening. The north Moravian city is the centre of the 34th Janáček’s May festival, which also takes place in six other towns in the region over a period of three weeks. The focus this year is on female vocalists. The great Czech composer Leoš Janáček was a native of the north Moravian region and died in Ostrava in 1928.