Berlin Philharmonic to launch Prague Spring 2024

The 79th Prague Spring International Music Festival, due to take place between May 12 and June 3, will offer 50 concerts, the organizers revealed on Monday. The festival will open at Prague’s Municipal House with Bedřich Smetana’s My Country performed by the Berlin Philharmonic headed by conductor Kirill Petrenko.

The upcoming edition will also celebrate the Year of Czech Music, and the bicentenary of Smetana's birth. Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, who will be the ambassador of the Czech Year of Music, will lead a concert performance of Smetana's opera Libuše.

Tickets for the Prague Spring will go on sale on 1 November 2023 on the festival’s website.