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.

With Wagner’s Parsifal on stage at the Prague National Theater, the Velvet Violin has this list of ten other operas well known internationally that were originally set to a German text.

The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (CF) has taken home a top German music award for its recording of a long-lost opera. Known as The Fragments, this dreamy, beautiful piece is a shortened version of Juliette, a surrealist opera by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890 – 1959) that premiered here in the Golden City all the way [...]

Ever seen an opera at the cinema? Prague movie theater Kino Aero is screening performances by the New York Met, live from the Lincoln Center in the Big Apple, in full HD quality. This coming Saturday, you can see the first part of Richard Wagner’s massive opus, Das Rheingold (The Ring), which consists either of [...]

A world-famous opera singer is suing the Czech government over her name being included in a list of former collaborators with the StB, the communist secret service that operated from 1945-1990 in the former Czechoslovakia. 85-year-old Praguer Soňa Červená, who has sang in operas around the world since the mid-1950s, is demanding that her name [...]

Air travel is rarely a treat for the ears at the best of times, but passengers on a recent flight to the Golden City from Manchester, England got just that. In-flight entertainment took on a whole new meaning this week when British holidaymakers were treated to a live operatic performance at 30,000ft. Singers from the [...]