The opera is based on an American writer’s novel, written according to a true event. The composer found everything he needed in the story of Cio-Cio-San’s unhappy love – a sentimental story, sharp plot contrasts, exotic setting, action and tenderness. The spiritual background of the opera is the meeting of two cultures – in the character of Pinkerton (as the cynical representative of the superior white race) and a young Japanese girl. The music of Madam Butterfly shows great mastery in giving a true picture of the atmosphere and poetry of the orient, even though it is borne by Puccini’s own harmonious devices.

19 Oct 2010	, 7:00PM
12 Nov 2010	, 7:00PM
10 Dec 2010	, 7:00PM
29 Dec 2010	, 7:00PM
26 Jan 2011	, 7:00PM
22 Feb 2011	, 7:00PM
4 Mar 2011	, 7:00PM
31 Mar 2011	, 7:00PM
5 Apr 2011	, 7:00PM
15 May 2011	, 7:00PM
20 May 2011	, 7:00PM
15 Jun 2011	, 7:00PM

Sstátní opera Praha Státní opera Praha

Legerova 75, Praha 1, Prague
+420 296 117 111

Státní opera Praha

21 OCT - 24 OCT 2010, 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

 

Dear enthusiasts and fans of motorism, I am really glad that I can invite you as early as today to visit the 16th year of motorist exhibition complex of passenger and light-duty commercial vehicles, automobile styling and car-part exhibition, car accessories, services and garage technology

 

AUTOSHOW PRAHA 2010

As in the year 2009 all premises of Prague exhibition area in Holešovice will be occupied, including outside area.
The term is traditional Thursday to Sunday - from 21st to 24th October

Car & Audio Show

Exhibition of audio systems for automobiles, multimedia, navigation and communication tuning&racing Automobile adjustments, design, racing car engineering, accessories and equipment Allroad Show Exhibition of cross-country and special vehicles 4x4 Stunts
 

TRANSPED / COMMA 2009

17th year of exhibition of logistical trucks, storage and manipulation, communal technology and services.

We are looking forward to your visit, on behalf of realization teamýVýst

aviště Incheb1

Výstaviště 416, Praha 7, Prague

Výstaviště Incheba Expo
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Simply Red in Prague - 14.11.2010 Tesla Arena Prague 

TESLA ARENA
Za elektrárnou 419/1, Praha 7-Bubeneč, PRAHA
890,00 - 1.290 CZK

TESLA ARENA

 JOE COCKER, ONE OF THE BIGGEST LEGENDS OF POP MUSIC AND ONE OF THE FEW LIVING ARTISTS WHO CAN PROUDLY SAY THEY PERFORMED AT THE LEGENDARY WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL, IS COMING BACK TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC TO INTRODUCE HIS LATEST ALBUM “HARD KNOCKS” WHICH SHOULD BE RELEASED AT THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER AND WHICH WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY THE TITLE TRACK RELEASED AS A SINGLE IN JULY. 

 

O2 ARENA

Ocelářská 460/2, Praha 9, Prosek

890 - 1390 CZK

18.11.2010, 20:00

 

 Christmas markets on the Old Town Square.

The selling little houses will be open every working day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the weekend then from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The stands with refreshments can be open even until midnight. Also this year there has been prepared an attractive souvenir for the market visitors, which will be taken home by those who will taste hot wine. That is you can buy the hot wine called "Svařák" in a special mug, which will thus enrich the collection of many households

 

27.11.2010

- 1.1.2011

STAROMĚSTSKÉ NÁMĚSTÍ
Staroměstské náměstí, Praha 1, PRAHA

 

The brand-new, full-length narrative ballet Othello has been specially created for the National Theatre Ballet by the groundbreaking choreographer and stage director Youri Vàmos. The world premiere performances of the work, conceived to Leoš Janáček’s music, will take place in the historical building of the National Theatre on 1 and 2 April 2010.

National Theatre audiences have already been enchanted by Vàmos’s popular productions originally created in Germany: The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol and Romeo and Juliet. Now, ballet-lovers can look forward to a brand-new dance title, not seen anywhere to date, inspired by Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy.

Petr Zuska, Artistic Director of the National Theatre Ballet, asked “the last ballet narrator”, as the choreographer of Hungarian origin is frequently dubbed, to create a work tailored for the Prague National Theatre Ballet dancers.

“I know that about ninety per cent of the music leans on Janáček’s Taras Bulba,” Zuska reveals. “The conception seems interesting to me: we are in the Czech Republic, in Prague; Othello, written by an Englishman, is being choreographed by a Hungarian working in Germany – to music by a Moravian and to a Russian musical theme, to boot!” Zuska says, adding: “We are thus linking up to the tradition of Shakespeare works in our repertoire, following The Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet.”
Youri Vàmos started his international soloist and choreography career at Munich’s Opera House. Subsequently, already a well-known creator, he headed the ballet company at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf for 13 years. The 16 grand narrative ballets he has created to date have always managed to fill the auditorium, be it modernised classical works (Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty – The Last Daughter of the Czar, Giselle, Coppélia from Montmartre), or adaptations of novels and dramas (Julien Sorel, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream).

For Vàmos, just as important as the story itself are the emotional situations, the feelings of the characters: “Since it is precisely where verbal language cannot reach that dance comes in as the ideal expressional means,” Vàmos points out. Although his works are based on classical ballets, he is convinced that “today it is almost impossible to tell stories in a realistic manner by means of ballet language” and requires from the dancers that they empathise with the characters’ states of mind – every pirouette, every jump must come from within.

For Czechs, it is interesting that the notion of the Othello production corresponds to Vàmos’s perception of Janáček’s works: “The music to the ballet is made up of various compositions of Janáček’s, with the symphonic suite “Taras Bulba” having given me the decisive impulse,” the choreographer reveals. “With its frequent alternation of short and rapid moods, this suite is not overly typical as a basis for ballet. Yet this is precisely what I need to express Othello’s emotional vacillation between jealousy and explosive manifestations of love. Janáček’s music is expressive, abounding in movement, running the gamut of moods, yet none the less clear…”

Vámos also requires theatrical art from the dancers selected – powerful, dramatic expression, “since they are to portray flesh-and-blood characters with their feet in the mud, head in the clouds and a sword in their hand”. This is what is expected from the artists performing the role of Othello, (in alphabetical order) Jiří Kodym, Richard Kročil and Michal Štípa, as well those dancing Iago (Jonáš Dolník, Viktor Konvalinka and Tomáš Rychetský), and Roderigo (Alexandre Katsapov, Oleksandr Kysil and Petr Strnad). Desdemona’s youthful naivety and tenderness will be portrayed by Klára Kutilová, Nikola Márová and Zuzana Susová.

 

8 Feb 2011

, 7:00PM

Music: Leoš Janáček
Libretto, choreography and stage direction: Youri Vàmos
Sets and costumes: Pet Halmen
Conductor: David Švec / Marko Ivanović
Light design: Klaus Gärditz
Assistant choreographers: Joyce Cuoco, Alexei Afanassiev, Veronika Iblová
National Theatre Orchestra

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