Antonín Dvořák’s most famous opera Rusalka is back on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The highly anticipated production of the “lyric fairy tale” about a…
And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and today Nick Carey looks at a recent figure in Czech history, the first wife of President Vaclav Havel…
In this series we present 100 songs which have gone down in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. They became widely popular, were played during important…
The highly-respected alternative/electronic pop band Tata Bojs recently reissued four of their best-known albums Futuretro, Biorytmy, Nanoalbum and Kluci kde ste? complete…
Prague has seen many memorable concerts over the years by international artists and a few which were legendary. This week, American heavy metal and thrash metal band…
Janacek fever has hit the Czech Republic's second city, the Moravian capital, Brno. This year sees two major anniversaries in connection with Leos Janacek, one of the…
Asian Dub Foundation are a socially active and politically conscious young band from Britain who are - as their name suggests - of Asian origin. Their sound is an exciting…
In this series we present 100 songs which have gone down in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. On Czech Radio’s web pages you can find a poll, in which…
The Bamberg Symphony, led by Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, has received the ICMA Prize for best symphonic music for their 2022 CD featuring a symphony by Hans Rott.
Earlier this week, the Academy of Music in Prague played host to the 1st international melodrama contest, which brought together young musicians and actors from the Czech…
Vitezslav Novak is considered one of the best Czech classical music composers of the first half of the 20th century. As an old man, he described his own works in the…
Kevin Loo watched the recently released 'Karel' documentary to finally learn more about the Czech music legend.
For nearly two decades now, Debashish Chaudhuri has called Bohemia his home, while working with orchestras, both Czech and international, as a freelance or guest conductor.
Any history of Czechoslovakia’s dissident movement in the 1970s will include more than a passing reference to the writer, editor and translator Paul Wilson. Originally…
Few people in the Czech Republic know that a significant chapter in the history of early Czech sound recordings was written by Czech immigrants in the United States. For…
We draw from the archives to explore the long and rich tradition of Czech-Indian links – through music, literature, geopolitics and even yoga.
He's one of the greats of classical music and you wouldn't expect him to get mixed up in politics. Yet, more than 200 years after his death Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is at…
In 2008 Zdenek Macal will cease to be the Czech Philharmonic's Chief Conductor. For the first time in its history the orchestra will not assign this position to anyone…
