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Current AffairsSmetana’s Litomyšl International Opera Festival highlights 700 year anniversary of historic event
Now in its 52nd year, Smetana’s Litomyšl International Opera Festival
transforms composer Bedřich Smetana’s home town in east Bohemia into a
paradise for music lovers. The music festival, which is the country’s
second oldest, kicked off on Friday and will run until July 5. What can
visitors expect this year?
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Current AffairsAnnual opera festival underway in Bedřich Smetana's hometown
The East Bohemian town of Litomyšl has a lot to boast of, from its UNESCO
World Heritage status to its lively year-round atmosphere. Nonetheless,
what this town of 10,000 most frequently boasts of is that it is the
birthplace of the composer Bedřich Smetana, and since 1949 it has been the
home of a major music festival that bears his name. Now in its 60th year,
Smetana's Litomyšl Festival continues to draw some of the biggest
personages in classical music.
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Current AffairsLitomysl Festival fills Smetana's birthplace with the best of opera and classical music
Smetana's Litomysl International Opera Festival is the largest open-air
classical music festival in the Czech Republic. Eva Urbanova launches the
traditional Smetana's Litomysl International Opera Festival on Friday; the
popular Czech soprano is now celebrating twenty years of a most impressive
career. Dita Asiedu takes a closer look at the important annual event:
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SpotlightLitomysl: Bedrich Smetana's home town
In the very east of Bohemia, where the region borders with Moravia, you'll
find a picturesque town called Litomysl. It emerged in the 13th century
from an older fortified settlement on an important trade route which
linked Bohemia and Moravia.
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ArtsSmetana's Litomysl Opera Festival calls for reconciliation
Every year at the beginning of summer the East-Bohemian town of Litomysl
commemorates its famous native, the composer Bedrich Smetana, and in his
honour organizes an international opera festival - Smetana's Litomysl.
Even though Smetana's family moved out of Litomysl as early as 1831 when
he was only seven, Litomysl locals are very proud of their most famous
citizen and celebrated him already during his life. Later, after his
death, Litomysl always made a point of commemorating the anniversary of
his birth. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary in 1949 the Opera
Festival was founded.
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