Bedrich Smetana is one of the most beloved Czech composers -- two others are Antonin Dvorak and Leos Janacek -- and particularly admired for the orchestral cycle "Ma Vlast" ("My Country") and the ...

Blanik was the last of an amazing series called "My Country," penned by a composer who was completely deaf. The series was the pinnacle of Bedrich Smetana's life's work, and it's regarded as a ...

John Schaefer: I'm John Schaefer, and you're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab podcast. Today, flute-player Emi Ferguson continues "This Composer is Sick," exploring the impact of syphilis on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once a decade there is a Year of Czech Music that reaches out from the Czech Republic to audiences around the ...

If opera is a marriage of music and theater, words often amount to a bridesmaid at best. Librettists don’t get much respect; translators of libretti, even less. So it comes as a pleasant surprise when ...

Though Bedrich Smetana’s DALIBOR—seen this week at Bard SummmerStage in a wonderful production by Jean-Romain Vesperini, with an ingenious set design by Bruno de Lavenere, a fine cast and the American ...

TO PAY homage to last century's composers and to the tradition of its Slavic repertoire, the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre (SND) decided to include Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's opera The ...

Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana, one of the primary influences that shaped Czech music, kept composing even after becoming deaf due to illness – and delivered one of his most famous works during ...

The great Czech composer Bedřich Smetana would have been 195 today, and the birthday has been marked by a beautiful Google Doodle, set to the music of his Vltava. The piece is one of the six symphonic ...

Ready to press play on 'Bedřich Smetana: Hubička' on your favorite screen? Searching for where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to watch this Karel Jernek directed movie can be more complicated ...