List of cultural events (spring 2013)

Thu 28 February 2013
The program includes visit of the planetarium and "Story of the Solar System" plus observation of the night sky. All the expositions and lectures are in English and prepared especially for our group!

Tue 19 March 2013
Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario often attributed to French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, although Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz has argued that the scenario was actually written by Temistocle Solera. Aida was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871, conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.

Tue 26 March 2013
Vocal jazz concert of a popular czech singer Gabriela Kolčavová and her band. The performance is in English as Gabriela had spent long years in the USA.

Tue 9 April 2013
The exhibition is presenting Mendel in an authentic place of Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno as a complex person, which had not moved only in boundaries of cultivation, but in a lot of lines of work. The exhibition is divided into 5 rooms. The first room represents the Abbey in 19th century, the second room represents Mendel as a person. The third room is dedicated to Mendel’s cultivation, fruit-growing, beekeeping and meteorological activities. The penultimate room introduces Mendel as a founder of principles of heredity. The milestones of genetics are explained in the last room.

Tue 16 April 2013
Villa Tugendhat is a historical building in Brno, Czech Republic. It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Built of reinforced concrete between 1928-1930 for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, the villa soon became an icon of modernism. Dress code: casual Don't forget to take your ISIC card or any confirmation of being a student

Thu 25 April 2013
The concert of Brno Philharmonic Orchestra takes place in a beautiful concert hall of Besedni dum. (http://www.filharmonie-brno.cz/besedni-dum-p279.html)

Program: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44 I 35 ', Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 I 57 '; Marian Lapšanský piano, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Aleksandar Marković

Tue 30 April 2013
In the Labyrinth under Vegetable Market you can enjoy the unique and mysterious atmosphere of the maze of medieval corridors and cellars. Moreover, the tour does not lack the element of surprise, for example you can see a real medieval pillory. further info: http://www.ticbrno.cz/podzemi/labyrint-pod-zelnym-trhem/historie

Wed 8 May 2013
Special cultural event will be full of wine from different parts of Czech Republic, especially from South Moravia. Come and join us so that you can taste all flavours of Czech wine.

Tue 14 May 2013
Swan Lake ballet, Op. 20, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was composed in 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger.