Looking for a sweet night out with that special someone? Here's a great concert date: an evening of romantic music by Mozart, Schumann and Dvorák, played on period instruments by the excellent Musica Florea ensemble. Marek Stryncl conducts, with featured soloists Jirí Bárta on cello and Ludmila Peterková on clarinet. Rudolfinum, Nov. 6 at 7:30

The "Guitar Across Styles" festival mixes it up this week a pair of lively match-ups: The Bratislava Guitar Quartet comes to town to play with contemporaries from Czech music schools (Atrium, Nov. 3 at 7:30). Two nights later, Czech musicians Pavel Steidl (guitar) and Gabriela Demeterová (violin) join actor Jaroslav Dusek for an evening of musical and verbal improv. Mestská knihova, Nov. 5 at 7:30

DANCE

Set in exotic, Sir Walterish Scotland, the tragic Romantic ballet La Sylphide (the Lovenskiold version versus the original by Taglioni) gets a showing from the Slovak National Theater. Estates Theater, Nov. 5 at 7

If your dance tastes run more contemporary, Czech dancer and choreographer Petra Hauerová is premiering a new work, Turing Machine, in which she and two other performers offer an "abstract representation of a computing device" with the aid of laser-light projections. Divadlo Ponec, Nov. 8 and 9 at 8

THEATER

Actors from the touring TNT Theatre Britain perform an adaptation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies in English for one night only. Salesiánské divadlo, Nov. 4 at 7:30

John Gay's great play and Brecht's Weimar version are well-known, but not the version of The Beggar's Opera by Václav Havel. That's probably because the communist authorities cracked down on the playwright and players after its first performance. But here it is available to be freely seen, with English superrtitles to boot. Svandovo divadlo, opening Nov. 9 at 7

JAZZ, ROCK, ETC.

Improvisational free jazz is rarely on the bill at Prague jazz festivals, which explains why Cosmosamatics 2005 is playing a solo date instead of headlining the bill at a tony jazz club. It's too bad, because the band features well-respected reedmen from the '70s, most notably Sonny Simons on alto sax and Michael Marcus on tenor sax. These jazz gentlemen from the States are worth hearing. Vsebarácnická rychta, Nov. 2 at 8

Jaz Coleman's Killing Joke mixes classic punk and new wave motifs with industrial beats and politicized lyrics that are highly emotional, if not downright emo. For a band with a 25-year history, these Prague-based noise rockers sound remarkably up-to-date, especially on shout-along tracks like "Seeing Red" from 2003's eponymous CD. The Rasmus only wish they could be this cool. Lucerna Music Bar, Nov. 4 at 7

Legendary jazz guitarist John Scofield and his John Scofield Trio colleagues, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Bill Stewart, bring their improvisational jamming to town as part of the AghaRTA Prague Jazz Festival. Lucerna Music Bar, Nov. 8 at 9