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A timeless tale (An article about Vladimir Franz ballet "Goldilocks; The Prague Post)

20.10.2013 18:55
"Goldilocks" ballet appeals to audiences young and old As schools shut down for the holidays and snow continues to fall, what are cabin-feverish families with children to do? Fortunately for audiences young and old, the National Theater is offering a performance of Goldilocks, one of their most...

Baroque Landscape is the Best Set Design (An interview with Vladimír Franz)

20.10.2013 18:45
You are the only Czech taking part in the international jury of the Prague Quadrennial; while in fact you work as a composer – not, as far as I know, as a set designer. I’m therefore quite interested in how you attained this particular role.  It is not only music that I am concerned with, but...

Open Gate Student Sings With Czech Republic's Finest

20.10.2013 18:42
Sexta student Zuzana Matiášová performed with accomplished Czech conductors this summer in Liberec. The following article is a diary of her experience.  Bohemia Cantat is a festival of choir singing in Liberec which takes place every year at the end of August. The singers can apply for one of...

Franz's sand "ziggurat" final piece at Sculpture Grande '06 (A report for the Radio Prague)

20.10.2013 18:39
For a number of years now visitors in Prague have been able to view public sculpture in and around the monumental Wenceslas Square throughout the summer months. Titled Sculpture Grande, the exhibition features truly massive works that rise up above the traffic; this year it particularly made...

Franz: a man for three seasons (An article in The Prague Post)

20.10.2013 18:37
This versatile painter is a composer, professor and animal lover Vladimír Franz has made a life out of pursuing the unexpected.  At first glance, with his closely cropped hair, burly physique and full-body tattoos covering pretty much every visible spot of flesh, he looks more likely to...

A day in the life... (An interview for the Prague Tribune)

20.10.2013 18:34
The strenght of Vladimír Franz`s personality is clear the moment you meet him. As are his keen sense of humor and his erudition. Painter, composer, profesor at the Theatre Department of the Academy of Musical Arts (and chairman of its Academic Panel), lawyer, and eternal eccentric, doc.JUDr.Franz...

Vladimír Franz: Incidental music as a dramatic character

20.10.2013 18:32
My honorable friends, ladies and gentlemen, In the first place, let me express my sincere thanks for your invitation, which I welcome not only as an appreciation of my work in the field of incidental music and drama in general. Moreover I see it as an expression of your admirable commitment to an...

Vladimír Franz: The way of incidental music from a semantic sign to a dramatic character

20.10.2013 18:25
Incidental music as a simultaneous dramaturgy Music is one of the essential parts of a theatre performance. Together with stage managing, stage designing, costumes and dramaturgy, it creates a certain dramatic complex. The hierarchy in arrangement of these parts builds up the character of the whole...

Vladimír Franz: Hercules -The concept of a stage oratorio

20.10.2013 18:21
Ladies and gentlemen, Last autumn I tried to answer the question how to celebrate my hundredth work for a theatre without turning it into a pretentious event. Having had my music performed in almost all Czech theatres, I decided to return humbly to the origins of my work on the field of stage music...

Válka s mloky (opera)

15.10.2013 22:09
Opera o dvou dějstvích na libreto Rostislava Křivánka s využitím motivů a postav ze stejnojmenného románu Karla Čapka   Opera byla ve světové premiéře uvedena v rámci festivalu Opera 2013 dne 10. ledna 2013 ve Státní opeře v Praze.    Román Karla Čapka Válka s mloky je dílem na...
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