See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.

Pavel Šporcl

Queen Elizabeth Hall Southbank Centre,

Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl creates sparks with the English Chamber Orchestra in an animated programme celebrating the Year of Czech Music 2024. Dvorak’s Violin Concerto is a marvellous example of... Read more »

Jenůfa

Royal Opera House

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 »

Courier: my life as a spy in communist Czechoslovakia

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

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 »

Czech Philharmonic: Shostakovich

Barbican Centre Silk Street, London, United Kingdom

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 »

Czech Philharmonic: Mozart, Mahler

Barbican Centre Silk Street, London, United Kingdom

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 »

Janáček: Excursions of Mr Brouček

Barbican Centre Silk Street, London, United Kingdom

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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