Jenůfa
Royal Opera HouseJenůfa is keeping secret from everyone that she is pregnant by Števa, whom she loves despite his drinking and womanising. Jenůfa’s stepmother, Kostelnička, had a violent, alcoholic husband and tells... Read more »
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Jenůfa is keeping secret from everyone that she is pregnant by Števa, whom she loves despite his drinking and womanising. Jenůfa’s stepmother, Kostelnička, had a violent, alcoholic husband and tells... Read more »
This talk by Professor Mark Cornwall explores the subject of secret police surveillance in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. Prof. Cornwall draws on his own surveillance file, asking why, when and... Read more »
Robert Bruce Lockhart had an extraordinary career. In 1918, he served as the British Government’s “Agent” in Bolshevik Russia and orchestrated a brazen plot to topple Vladimir Lenin’s regime. The... Read more »
An orchestra blazing burnished colours, rich string tone, and boundless refinement, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov performs Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 1 with Sheku Kanneh-Mason followed... Read more »
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov perform Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos with Katia and Mariella Labèque followed by Mahler's Symphony No 5. Mozart wrote his concerto for... Read more »
The ‘hero’ of Janáček’s 1920 satire is the sausage- and beer-guzzling Brouček, a complacent, commitment-averse landlord. Over two acts he travels to both the moon and the fifteenth century. Thinking the... Read more »
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