Trip to Prague ( 布拉格之旅 ) 1 – Music Festival

I went to Prague with a friend recently. It’s fortunately in the timeframe of Prague Autumn Music Festival, a newer event comparing to the well known Prague Spring Music Festival. Although the later is a much bigger one and has been running for long time, Prague Autumn Music Festival has begun to draw more attentions in recent years, and also began to have many International presents.

I’ve attended a performance by Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. VRSO has been recognized as one of the most versatile orchestras in Austria. It performed symphonic fantasia From Italy, op. 16 of 1887 by Richard Strauss that night. This piece is new to me, and I liked it for its variations in passionate outburst and quiet beautiful story telling. There is man vocal soloist singing in this piece as well. It’s performed by Wolfgang Holzmair. He is new to me, and relevant new to the field as well, who has a full and beautiful voice. I should say his voice combines high quality and rich emotion, which is quite enjoyable and touching. He plays in recital around world since 2003. The performance was in Rudolfinum concert hall, as illustrated in following pictures.

There are about 90 people in the orchestra that night, where I recognized 9 Asian female players, mostly in strings, no Asian male recognized though.

I’ve also attended an opera performance in State Opera, i.e. German Opera. It is the most beautiful opera house in Prague, as illustrated in the following pictures. The 1^st two pictures are downloaded from Internet. What performed that night was Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. Although the major pieces singing by the leading male and female characters are very familiar, this is the 1^st time for me to know and to hear this opera, and realize where these songs were coming from. This opera has been performed in Venice, Italy about one hundred and fourty years before released around the world in recent years. It’s performed by Prague State Opera that night, and I’m very impressed by the performance. Especially, the leading male and female characters have inequitable voice, which are not comparable to the opera performed here. I guess the reason may be that music and opera are part of peoples’ life in Prague, they live and breathe them, so to be the perfectionists on them.

  





The following picture was taken in front the Theatre of the Estates, one of the three opera houses in Prague. I didn’t get chance to attend a performance in National Theater (another opera house) this time, though I’d love to.

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• 顶一下. :-) -看风景- ♂ (211 bytes) () 09/23/2007 postreply 18:49:48

• Rigoletto (弄臣) -Flamenco_Girl- ♀ (191 bytes) () 09/24/2007 postreply 12:21:19

• 德沃夏克和斯梅塔纳也都是捷克人。 -Flamenco_Girl- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/24/2007 postreply 12:40:28

• 最后一张是MM吗？真是跳Flamenco的身材 -sjmj- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/23/2007 postreply 21:26:54

• 谢谢！ -Flamenco_Girl- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/24/2007 postreply 12:27:27

• 谢谢分享。中文论坛不鼓励通篇的外文作品。 -北京西城区- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/23/2007 postreply 21:48:12

• 顶西城！！！ -蛛儿- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/24/2007 postreply 02:38:32

• 只是希望也能同一些不懂中文的朋友分享，见谅。 -Flamenco_Girl- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/24/2007 postreply 12:26:38

• 这里的网友百分之百认识中文，却不是都认识英文。他们来自世界各地，恐怕这种做法反而适得其反 -北京西城区- ♀ (78 bytes) () 09/24/2007 postreply 23:02:52

• 下次做两个版本，因我搏客有同这里的美国朋友分享。 -Flamenco_Girl- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/25/2007 postreply 11:03:29

• 布拉格文化设施修的很好啊 -哈_哈- ♂ (18 bytes) () 09/24/2007 postreply 07:33:43

• 捷克人对音乐的爱好不输奥地利. -王医生- ♂ (31 bytes) () 09/24/2007 postreply 10:17:51

• 还没去过奥地利。 -Flamenco_Girl- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/24/2007 postreply 12:33:47