http://www.dvorak-society.org We are a UK registered Charity, staffed by unpaid volunteers, devoted to the musical arts of all Czech and Slovak composers and performers, past and present en webmaster@dvorak-society.org http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/548 REMINDER: Jiří Bělohlávek will conduct BBC Symphony Orchestra and cast of mainly Czech and Slovak soloists in concert staging of Dvořák's opera "The Jacobin (Jakobín)" at Barbican Hall, London, Sat 4 Feb 2012, 7.00pm Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:08:00 GMT http://www.dvorak-society.org/myerscough_leightonhouse.html Nadia Myerscough (violin) and Clélia Iruzun (piano) will perform Janáček Sonata for Violin and Piano as part of an interesting recital at Leighton House Museum, Holland Park, London on Thursday 23 February 2012, commencing at 7.30pm Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:00:00 GMT http://www.dvorak-society.org/christophersen_martinu_sonata.html David Christophersen will perform Martinů "Piano Sonata (H 350)" in Edinburgh (January), Cambridge (April), Bristol (April) and London (September) during 2012. Performances will be part of a series of concerts featuring Prokofiev's three "wartime" sonatas set in the context of other piano compositions Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:27:00 GMT http://www.longbeachopera.org/2012-season/the-breast-of-tiresias Long Beach Opera will perform Martinů "The Tears of a Knife (H 169)" in a double bill with Poulenc "Les mamelles de Tirésias", Sunday 11 March (2.00pm) and Saturday 17 March 2012 (8.00pm), Center Theatre, Long Beach, California Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:38:00 GMT http://www.dvorak-society.org/ensemble360_Janacek_intimate_letters.html Ensemble 360 are touring England with Janáček’s 2nd String Quartet (Intimate Letters) for Music in the Round, in a semi-staged version devised in collaboration with Daniel Evans, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres (Nov and Dec 2011; Feb and March 2012) Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:20:00 GMT http://www.dvorak-society.org/brno_opera_closure.html Proposed closure of important Czech opera company at Janáček Theatre. The Dvořák Society has received extremely disturbing news about the future of opera at National Theatre Brno (Národní divadlo Brno) Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:15:00 GMT