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Prague Spring International Music Festival

The Prague Spring International Music Festival is a permanent showcase for outstanding performing artists and symphony orchestras.
The first festival was held under the patronage of Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš.

Where: Na Příkopě, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic

When: May 12th - June 3rd
repeats every year the same time

Category: Culture (63)

Tags: classical, famous, festival, music, prague, spring

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The complete programme of the 65th Prague Spring Festival 2010 is now available at www.festival.cz.

Advance booking of tickets begins on Monday, 14 December, at 10 am.

Every year from 12 May to the beginning of June it brings over one thousand of artists at dozer of concerts to more than fourty thousands of concertgoers and thus remains one of the most important culture event in Czech Republic.

In 2010 you can look forward to the legendary Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the London-based English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir, who are in charge of prelude to the Festival. The opening concert has been entrusted to the Prague Philharmonia under its new chief conductor, Jakub Hrůša.

Two other living legends to appear at the 2010 Festival are Sir André Previn and Pierre Boulez. Amongst the other renowned musicians returning to the Festival are Anne-Sophie Mutter, Murray Perahia (together with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields), Anoushka Shankar, Garrick Ohlsson. Look forvard also to Herbert Blomstedt with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Zoltán Kocsis and Hungarian National Philharmonic, Cristian Mandeal, Emanuel Ax, Olga Borodina, Matthias Goerne, Hélѐne Grimaud, Ewa Kupiec, Radu Lupu, Dianne Reeves and others.

For the complete Festival programme, please visit our website www.festival.cz. We are looking forward to Spring!

Edited by: Columbus, Lukas, Marie, PragueSpring, marie

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