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Prague Philharmonia begins US tour, ending with Carnegie Hall debut
This week, Prague Philharmonia embarks on a concert tour of the United States, performing in six cities across the American Southeast before culminating its journey at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall. Ahead of the opening concert in Florida, RPI spoke with the orchestra’s chief conductor, Emmanuel Villaume, about the tour and the upcoming Carnegie Hall […]...
January 17, 1931: Prague hosts its first hockey game on artificial ice on Štvanice Island
Štvanice Winter Stadium, designed in 1932 by functionalist architect Josef Fuchs, was the first arena in Czechoslovakia with an artificial ice surface. It hosted the country’s first-ever ice hockey world championship win in 1947, as well as the first televised hockey game in 1955. The first game ever played at the Štvanice Winter Stadium was […]...
Ice Age horse engraving found in Moravian Karst cave challenges view of early European art
Czech scientists have announced an extraordinary discovery in the Moravian Karst in South Moravia. Inside one of the region’s caves, they found a rare engraving of a horse — an image created around 15,000 years ago, at the very end of the last Ice Age, when people still lived in and around caves. An international […]...
The quiet stairways of Malá Strana
Malá Strana is one of Prague’s most visited neighbourhoods and very much part of the beaten track. But behind its busy streets lies a network of stairways that lead away from crowds and into calmer, more intimate spacesand take you suddenly off the beaten track. Malá Strana’s steep terrain has shaped how people move through […]...
Open Day at the University of Defence in Brno
January and February are traditionally the months when universities across the Czech Republic hold open days. The University of Defence in Brno was no exception, offering prospective students the chance to explore courses and get hands-on experience with available military equipment. See more here....
Erotikon: A Czechoslovak silent classic returns with epic orchestral accompaniment
Few Czech silent films are as renowned as Erotikon, directed by Gustav Machatý in 1929. The intimate romance, provocative for its time, has now been digitally restored and will receive a major new premiere on Tuesday. The screening will feature the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra performing a newly commissioned score by Jana Vöröšová. The restoration, […]...
Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra receives major French award for Smetana album
This Friday, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra celebrated a major international success in Paris, where it received the Diapason d’Or de l’Année award for its triple album of the complete symphonic works of Bedřich Smetana. The award, presented by critics from the French classical music magazine Diapason and the radio station France Musique, was accepted […]...
“I’m interested in the female experience”: Photographer Bet Orten on art, motherhood and moving on from fashion
Bet Orten studied fashion photography in London after a stint as an assistant to a well-known celebrity photographer in New York. But for the last decade and a half Orten, whose Instagram profile describes her as a “female photographer taking pictures of other females”, has been living here in her native Prague. We spoke at […]...
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