The 2023 Prague Spring Music Festival is approaching

Once again, in 2023 the Prague Spring International Music Festival will be offering dozens of concerts in several charming venues around the Czech capital. You can look forward to world-class soloists such as Magdalena Kožená, Igor Levit and Jean Rondeau, as well as other first-rate musicians from all around the globe. The Festival’s artist-in-residence will be French violist Antoine Tamestit.

The Prague Spring will open with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, conducted by Tomáš Hanus from the Czech Republic. Daniel Harding will appear conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The Essener Philharmoniker will be performing with their chief conductor, Tomáš Netopil from the Czech Republic. Czech orchestras will be conducted by John Adams from the US, Klaus Mäkelä of Finland, and Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv.

Historical music will be performed by Les Talens Lyriques with its French founder Christophe Rousset, and by the German countertenor Andreas Scholl. The composer-in-residence of the Prague Offspring weekend of contemporary music will be Georg Friedrich Haas, who will make an appearance with the Klangforum Wien chamber orchestra.

World-class soloists

The Rudolfinum will be welcoming mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená accompanied by Japanese-British pianist Mitsuko Uchida. The Rudolfinum concert hall will also host a performance by Russian-German pianist Igor Levit. French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau will be performing in the historical setting of the Convent of Saint Agnes.

This year’s festival will continue the tradition by concluding with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 conducted by Christoph Eschenbach from Germany.

The Prague Spring concerts will be held at many places around the city. Venues that will be filled with the sound of music include, for example, the Art Nouveau Municipal House, the National Theatre, the National Technical Museum and Vyšehrad Cemetery.

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Prague Spring International Music Festival

For more than 75 years the Prague Spring International Music Festival has ranked among the top cultural events in the Czech Republic. This presentation of the world's best musicians, symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles is somewhat of a phenomenon as it has survived the political upheavals and dramatic cultural changes in the seven decades of its existence. This is mostly thanks to its audience, who always appreciated and today still appreciates the true artistic quality on display.

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