Tag Archives: classical concerts

The Verdi Festival and more opera dates for your calendar

Posted by Bill Lehane on August 20, 2011 Comments Off

As the last major event of the somewhat quieter summer classical season, the Verdi Festival, gets under way, it’s time to start thinking about concerts on the way in the year ahead.

A classical hour in Old Town Prague

Posted by Bill Lehane on July 25, 2011 Comments Off

The Velvet Violin takes a trip to the Clam-Gallas Palace for a 60-minute string quartet concert including well-known favorites by Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Dvořák and more.

The Vivaldi Hunter

Posted by Bill Lehane on July 23, 2011 Comments Off

The Velvet Violin looks at the background to a reconstructed work by Antonio Vivaldi – for which the original music was lost – now being performed at the Prague Baroque Festival.

Interview: Prague Youth Philharmonic conductor Ladislav Cigler

Posted by Stephan Delbos on June 10, 2011 2 comments

We talk to Youth Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Jaroslav Cigler ahead of tonight’s perfomance at Rudolfinum in the company of 15-year-old cello and piano prodigy Sarina Zhang

Prague Spring’s past young winners: Where are they now?

Posted by Bill Lehane on May 14, 2011 Comments Off

Since it began more than 50 years ago, The Prague Spring International Music Festival has hosted an International Music Competition for talented classical musicians under the age of 30. As this year’s festival gets underway (see “Prague Spring” from this week’s Night & Day), the Velvet Violin takes a look at three past young winners [...]