2023-10-31 23:39:07
Prague – The Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko will open the Prague Spring classical music festival next year with Bedrich Smetana’s symphonic poem “My Fatherland”. Festival director Pavel Trojan presented the program with around 50 concerts from May 12 to June 3, 2024 in Prague on Monday. Petrenko has proven time and again that he has an “extraordinarily close relationship” with Czech music, said Trojan.
The 79th edition of the festival marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the romantic Bedrich (also: Friedrich) Smetana, who was born on March 2, 1824 in Litomysl.
The chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, Jakub Hrusa, will appear in Prague in front of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from Rome. Contemporary music also finds a place in the program, including the composition “Superorganisms” by the Czech Miroslav Srnka.
A concert with 50 pianos arranged in a circle in the multifunctional complex Forum Karlin promises to be spectacular. The listeners then sit in the middle while listening to a work by the Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas.
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