Jiří Trtík hailed as the most successful Czech composer of classical music outside of Czechia

Photo: Barbora Navrátilová, Radio Prague International

“We all experience that in a certain way,” says Jiří Trtík on why Kafka’s Letter to his Father inspired him to write an opera celebrating one of the greatest and most intimate confessions in world literature. What makes Bedřich Smetana so special today? And why is the Vltava River not what it used to be? Listen to the newest episode of Faces of Czech Music.

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Author: Petr Dudek